Beets baked in foil for a salad - how to bake the beets in the oven whole, a step by step recipe photos

Rosy, juicy and sweet beautiful beetroot is an ingredient for a variety of salads. The most common and publicly favorite salads with beets this vinaigrette and herring under a fur coat. Most often, these beets to salads hostess boil in a saucepan, and today I tell you how to bake the beets in the oven in foil. Thus prepared root is a more sweet, fragrant, it retains almost all of the vitamins contained in raw vegetables and baked beet salads are obtained, well, just, awesome tasty. I hope that my steps designed photo-recipe will help novice kulinarka properly bake the beets in the oven in its entirety.

To begin with, how to choose the beets for baking. For baking, choose medium-sized roots and try to make them approximately the same size. In this case, they propekutsya in the same time.

When roasting root vegetables lose excess moisture, and by one-third decrease in size. That is, if the salad you typically 1-2 boiled beets, in the oven for the same amount of salad is better to take 2-3 beets.

How to bake the beets in the oven

Once you've measured out the right amount of beet root vegetables add up to a large bowl (pan) and pour warm water for 15 minutes.

This pre-soaking is necessary to ensure that white is easier to launder adhering to the beet residues of soil and sand.

The water is drained, pour into a bowl of clean water and already it is well washed roots hands.

If bad washes can be gently rubbed Buryachok rigid mesh dish.

Next, be sure to thoroughly wipe beets with paper towels.

Bake beets we in foil, with this method of baking in the vegetables retain all the juices and most vitamins. Pre-cut foil to the desired size squares. The size is selected so as to place the beets.

Wrap each beet in two separate foil layer.

Here's a neat parcel is obtained.

Wrapped edges of the foil should be on top of that, during the baking, we could slightly lift the foil and check the readiness of vegetables, piercing them with a toothpick.

We spread beets wrapped in foil on a baking sheet and send in a preheated oven.

Bake medium-sized beets we will be on low heat for half an hour.

Then, remove the foil from the baked beet and vegetables give cool.

If you are planning to prepare a salad with beets immediately, then peel from root crops can be easily cleaned with a knife.

Beets in their skins can be folded in a plastic bag and store in the refrigerator for 3-4 days.

In addition to adding to the traditional beet salads, sweet and juicy beetroot baked in the oven for his household, I just cut into slices and served either with mayonnaise or sprinkled with vinegar and oil. It turns out delicious.

Knowing how to bake the beets in the oven as a whole, can be regularly included in the menu for the whole family such a useful and tasty vegetable for our body.