Easy Beet Salad Recipe

Easy Beet Salad Recipe

Ingredients

• recipe for: Batavia Salata Beet Salad
• Serving Size : 6
• 12 beets (or more) – medium size
• oil (optional)
• vinegar (optional) or skordalia (garlic) sauce

skordalia sauce:

• 1 head garlic
• 3/4 pound potatoes, boiled – peeled
• 2 cups oil (or more)
• 1/3 cup vinegar
• almonds
• walnuts

Method

1. Select fresh tender beets and cut off the tops and roots.
2. Wash the beets, without removing the skins, and boil in a large pot with ample water.
3. Meanwhile, clean the beet greens with the stems; add to the pot after the beets have cooked 30 min When beets are tender, remove and strain the liquid.
4. Peel the beets and cut them into round slices; chop up the greens.
5. Mound greens in center of a platter and surround them with the beet slices.
6. Pour oil and vinegar over all, and serve or serve with Skordalia (garlic) Sauce
7. Serve hot or cold.
8. SKORDALIA SAUCE: Clean garlic and mash it completely (you may use food processor).
9. Mash in potatoes, one by one, until you have a thick paste (the more potatoes you use, the more sauce you get-but less potent).
10. Alternately add the oil and vinegar, beating constantly.
11. If the sauce is too thick for your taste, add a little water or fish or chicken stock.
12. NO LUMPS IN THIS SAUCE, P-L-E-A-S-E !! NOTE: Many people like to add almonds or walnuts to skordalia.
13. These are mashed to a pulp and added to the paste before the potatoes, oil, and vinegar.

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