Horseradish Sauce

Cooking method

1. Step 1:

   

   How do you make horseradish sauce? Gather all the ingredients. Soak the horseradish in cold water for a few hours. Why do this? After long storage in the fridge or on store shelves, the roots get a little limp. To make them firm again and easier to work with, soak the horseradish in water. If you have freshly dug roots from the garden, you can skip this step.

2. Step 2:

   

   Peel the beet and rinse it under running water. You can increase or decrease the amount of beet a little to your taste. If you use a bit more beet, the sauce's color will be richer and its flavor milder.

3. Step 3:

   

   Peel the horseradish roots with a sharp, thin knife.

4. Step 4:

   

   Rinse them well in clean water. Next, chop the horseradish root and beet. You can do this three convenient ways: with a meat grinder, a blender, or a grater. A blender gives a mushier mass; with a grater or meat grinder, you'll distinctly feel pieces of horseradish and beet in the sauce.

5. Step 5:

   

   So, chop the root. I do it outdoors (on the balcony or terrace) or by an open window, because horseradish stings the eyes.

6. Step 6:

   

   Put the horseradish in a jar and cover it with a lid, or put it in a bowl and cover it with a plastic bag.

7. Step 7:

   

   Chop the beet.

8. Step 8:

   

   Add it to the horseradish.

9. Step 9:

   

   Add the salt, sugar, and vinegar to the jar.

10. Step 10:

    

    Pour in cold boiled water (adjust the amount as you like; I added a little more than the recipe states). Mix everything thoroughly and taste to see if there's enough salt, sugar, and vinegar. If something's missing for your taste, add it and mix again.

11. Step 11:

    

    Put the jar of sauce in the fridge to infuse for several hours, or better yet overnight. The longer the sauce infuses, the tastier it gets.

12. Step 12:

    

    Done - time to taste! This is how the sauce looks when passed through a meat grinder or made with a fine grater.

13. Step 13:

    

    And this is how it looks when blended in a blender.