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Tatar salad

Tatar Salad

A striking, appetizing salad of bright vegetables and sausage. The Tatar salad in this recipe is fairly calorie-dense — after all, it has sausage, fried potatoes and beets, plus full-fat sour cream and mayonnaise in the dressing. But it all evens out thanks to a balanced makeup: it's high in fiber and usually has plenty of fresh greens. And you can adjust the components to your taste: add fresh celery, green onion, sauerkraut or fresh cabbage, any salad greens, or use lean boiled beef instead of sausage.

naniki

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Beets

Carrots

0.5

Cucumbers

0.5

Potatoes

Sour cream

Semi-smoked sausage (any meat, beef works too)

100

Sunflower oil

Khmeli-suneli

Ground red pepper

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 17 % 4 g

Fats 38 % 9 g

Carbohydrates 46 % 11 g

140 kcal

GI: 70 / 0 / 30

Cooking method

Step 1:

How do you make Tatar salad? Get out beets, carrots, potatoes, fresh cucumber, sausage, mayonnaise, sour cream, and frying oil.
Step 2:

Peel the beets and cut them into thin strips.
Step 3:

Heat the sunflower oil and fry the beets, then cover and braise them until done.
Step 4:

Peel the carrots and cut them into thin strips with a julienne (Korean-carrot) slicer.
Step 5:

Marinate the carrots, adding apple cider vinegar, khmeli-suneli, and hot pepper. You can also use store-bought Korean carrot salad. Cut the cucumber into thin strips too.
Step 6:

Peel and rinse the potatoes, cut them into very thin strips, and rinse those several times in running water too. Drain them in a sieve, blot them dry with a paper towel, and fry them in the same skillet until crisp.
Step 7:

On a flat dish or plate, arrange all the prepared ingredients in separate mounds.
Step 8:

In the center of the salad, put a mound of dressing made from mayonnaise mixed with sour cream. Right at the table, just before eating, all the components of the salad are tossed together with two large forks.
Step 9:

This Tatar salad recipe has caught on a lot lately. That's mainly because of its very striking presentation. The bright, juicy ingredients are arranged in colorful, appetizing mounds on a big platter. It looks very inviting, and since the salad is tossed with the dressing right at the table, that further highlights its freshness.

Any oil is only healthy up to a certain temperature — its smoke point, at which the oil starts to burn and forms toxic substances, including carcinogens. For how to gauge the frying temperature and choose the best oil for frying — and which ones are better not to use at all — read here.