Christmas beet salad

 

Beet salads or cooked beet salads are good to serve at Christmas or Christmas Eve or New Years since they are full of color and are super tasty as  a good menu of dishes prepared for these dates. That is why in Free Recipes we are going to teach you this time how to make a Christmas salad of sweet beet with orange, pineapple, cucumber, carrot, and of course apple .

You can serve these salad as a dessert or a side dish .If you like to serve it as a side dish reduce the amount of sugar .

Preparation time ; 15 minutes

Serves ; 6

Ingredients

 4 cups of  beet cooked in cubes

 1 cup of Jicama or celery or 1 more apple in cubes

 2 apples cubed (red or green)

 3 Oranges in cubes

 2 cups of Pineapple in cubes

 1 Cup of Cucumber with skin in cubes

 1 cup of carrot in cubes

For the vinaigrette:

 2 tablespoons lemon juice

 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar

 1 teaspoon orange zest

 ¼ cup of Sugar (50 grams) , reduce the amount if serve as a side dish

 Walnuts or peanuts (optional)

 Sour cream or Greek yogurt (optional)

 

We gathered all the ingredients for this Christmas Beet and Orange Salad . If you have bought it raw and do not know how to prepare the cooked beet, we recommend that you put it in a pot with water to boil with the skin and everything, as if it were a potato, for 20 or 25 minutes to make it smooth. And once it is warm, they will remove the skin with their hands or with a potato peeler. Then they will let it cool completely and you can cut it into cubes of the size you want.

In a large bowl or salad bowl we mix the cooked beet together with the apple cubes that can be cut with or without skin, and they can be both red and green or a mixture of both.

We add the cubed oranges . 

Now we are going to put the cucumber and pineapple in cubes. 

Then we add the jicama and diced carrots. 

We mix perfectly all the Christmas fruit salad so that it takes on a beautiful pink color due to the cooked beets.

To make the vinaigrette, in another bowl we mix the vinegar together with the lemon juice, the sugar and the orange zest. The latter will give it a very special citrus touch and the sugar together with the vinegar and lemon will give it a very tasty bittersweet touch.

Serve as a dessert or as a side dish on holidays .

Once the sugar is well dissolved, we pour the vinaigrette over the Christmas salad with beets and pineapple and integrate perfectly with the fruits.

We can serve this Christmas sweet beet salad at room temperature or cold, as you prefer. At the time of serving, we pour a handful of nuts of our preference on top to give it a crunchy touch. And if we prefer it  to be creamy, we can add a splash of sour cream or Greek yogurt  we will get a super creamy Christmas apple salad that is perfect to taste as a dessert or side dish on these dates.