Salad of boiled vegetables without mayonnaise

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients for a vegetable salad. If desired, the composition of the salad can be changed, expanded or reduced, add any more vegetables, fresh herbs and spices. Vegetables: potatoes, carrots and beets are washed and boiled in a uniform. Beetroot is cooked for quite a long time, during this time more vitamins can evaporate.

2. Step 2:

   

   Therefore, in order to shorten the cooking time of beets, you can add a pinch of soda to the water in which the beets are cooked, this vegetable will cook much faster. Drain the water, let the vegetables cool down, peel them off. Cut the beets into cubes or straws.

3. Step 3:

   

   Cut potatoes into cubes.

4. Step 4:

   

   Carrots are also cut into cubes or halves of circles, if the carrots were small.

6. Step 5:

   

   Peel the onion, cut into halves of rings or cubes. If the fresh onion seems too bitter, then it can be marinated in vinegar, or just pour boiling water over the chopped onion with hot water.

7. Step 6:

   

   Some housewives add sauerkraut or sour cucumbers to the salad. But ordinary pickled cucumbers are quite suitable for this dish. They will improve the taste of the salad with their sourness and sharpness. If sour cucumbers and sauerkraut are added to the salad, then salt can not be added to the salad.

8. Step 7:

   

   Put all cooked vegetables in a deep salad bowl. Add salt and ground black pepper to taste. We fill the salad with olive oil to make the salad more healthy and tasty. A few drops of lemon juice will also improve the taste of the salad. Olive oil can be replaced with ordinary sunflower oil or some other. Mix the salad so that all the vegetables are well saturated with dressing and spices, let them soak in the refrigerator. Enjoy your meal!