A salad that happily combines beans, beets and prunes
Varya Hutsulskaya, the famous Ukrainian salad, is good during Lent, which, by the way, is not much time left. But in principle, this is a low-calorie dish, useful at any time of the year – especially since its ingredients are not particularly closed to any particular season. There are all sorts of variations of it – for example, with sauerkraut. We took the basic version suggested by the experts of the resource ukrainefood.info.
And this bright dish comes from Bukovina …
Varya hutsulskaya salad
Ingredients
boiled beets – 500 g; dry white beans – 300 g; prunes – 250 g; vegetable oil; salt, pepper
Varya Hutsulskaya salad is a dish, the preparation of which is a two-stage process. First, soak dry white beans in two liters of cold water for 8 hours. The beans should swell and triple in size. Drain the water, pour the beans into a saucepan, pour a clean liter of cold water, cook for about an hour, adding liquid as needed. Cool the cooked beans. We are finally ready for the main phase.
Boiled beets cut into cubes. Grind prunes. Mix all the ingredients, salt and pepper. Season with vegetable oil, put in a salad bowl, decorate with herbs. Here is Varya Hutsulskaya salad for you!
