Beef heart salad with pickles and onions

Prepare this delicious salad for your beloved on Valentine's Day. The salad is hearty, appetizing, high-calorie, but does not leave a feeling of heaviness, partly due to the dressing, which does not include mayonnaise. Although, if you prefer it, please, you can fill the salad with it! This dish can be prepared with appropriate decoration and on a holiday, or you can do it on a weekday to feed and please your family. The salad is prepared for a short time, I indicated the total cooking time taking into account the time spent on cooking beef heart and other components. The salad has a pleasant taste, the ingredients are perfectly combined in it. My family liked it, try it and you!
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 33 % 7 g
Fats 52 % 11 g
Carbohydrates 14 % 3 g
129 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 2 h 30 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make a beef heart salad with pickles and onions? The products necessary for the preparation of the recipe. Beef heart should be boiled in salted water for 2-2.5 hours until cooked, and then removed from the pan and cooled. Cut off all the fat, cartilage, etc. from the heart. Boil the carrots until tender, hard-boiled eggs and cool, peel.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Pour the walnuts into a dry hot frying pan and fry over low heat, stirring, until golden brown, cool.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    In the same frying pan, fry the onion cut into small cubes until golden brown, cool.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Prepare the dressing from sour cream and the following ingredients: ready-made mustard, wine vinegar, salt, ground black pepper.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Cut the heart into small cubes.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Also cut the pickled cucumbers, grate the egg whites and yolks separately on a coarse grater.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Grate carrots on a coarse grater, chop walnuts finely.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    We take the dish and begin to form the future salad. Put the heart in the first layer, lubricate with dressing, put a layer of onion on top.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Then there are the following layers: cucumbers-dressing-nuts-carrots-dressing-yolks-whites. Set aside some carrots for the heart decoration.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Carefully place a heart of grated carrots on top of the finished salad (you can use the appropriate cookie cutter). Since the salad is white on top, I additionally decorated it with dill and carrot flowers. So the salad is ready! Treat yourself and your loved one or family and guests!

The salad will look nice and neat if you cut all the ingredients into pieces of the same size and shape (for example, cubes).

How to cook hard-boiled eggs? So that the eggs do not crack when cooking, put them in cold water and put them to cook on a small fire. Boil the eggs for 9 minutes after boiling, then pour cold water and cool. From a sharp temperature drop, the shell will be better cleaned.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Sour cream with 30% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 25 % fat content - 284   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream with 20 % fat content - 210   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 10% fat content - 115   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream - 210   kcal/100g
  • Carrots - 33   kcal/100g
  • Dried carrots - 275   kcal/100g
  • Boiled carrots - 25   kcal/100g
  • Walnuts - 650   kcal/100g
  • Black Walnut English Walnut - 628   kcal/100g
  • Black Persian Walnut - 651   kcal/100g
  • Walnut oil - 925   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Pickled cucumbers - 16   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 80   kcal/100g
  • Heart of mutton - 82   kcal/100g
  • Beef heart - 96   kcal/100g
  • Mustard ready - 418   kcal/100g
  • Red wine vinegar - 19   kcal/100g

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