Food & Receipts

Buy this magical root at the market, known as “the little ginseng”, packed with 8 times more vitamin C than an apple, it’s affordable and nutritious.

With its tangy, sweet, and refreshing flavor, crispy texture, and nutritional value, this root vegetable is an affordable delight.

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17 February, 2024

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While beetroot is a familiar ingredient in daily meals, not everyone knows that it has a high vitamin C content 8 times more than pears and apples. Moreover, beetroot is also rich in vitamins B1, B2, sugar, and protein, so many people call this food “little ginseng”.

Thanks to containing many good substances for health, beetroot brings many benefits to health such as supporting digestion, helping to urinate, detoxifying the kidneys, preventing hemorrhoids, treating coughs, preventing cancer, and preventing anemia… With this ingredient, you can make delicious dishes such as pork belly braised with white beets, beet cakes, white beet braised fish, steamed white beets, white beet rolls with shrimp and meat, braised chicken with white beets…

In addition, you can also learn how to make sweet and sour pickled beets with a simple recipe below.

1. Ingredients for making sweet and sour pickled beets

– White beets

– Chili: 5 peppers

– Carbonated mineral water: 300ml

– Lime: 4 fruits

– Spices: Salt, 1 tablespoon of white sugar, 3 tablespoons of rice vinegar

2. How to make sweet and sour pickled beets

Step 1: Prepare the ingredients

– After buying the beets, they will be peeled and cleaned. Depending on your habits, you can cut them into small square pieces for easy eating.

– Rinse the chili, remove the stem and finely chop.

– Slice the lime and remove the seeds.

Step 2: Marinate the beets with spices

– Pour the beets that have been prepped into a small bowl and marinate them with salt.

– Use cooking tools to mix well and marinate for about 10 minutes for the beets to absorb the spices.

Step 3: Complete

– After marinating the beets for 10 minutes, you need to drain the excess water and then add the lime.

– Next, add the finely chopped chili, 300 ml of carbonated mineral water, 1 teaspoon of salt, sugar, and 3 tablespoons of rice vinegar.

– Mix well and refrigerate for about 2 hours before serving.

Although it is a dish with a simple preparation method and easy-to-prepare ingredients, pickled beets have a very attractive flavor. When eating, you can feel the sweet and sour taste, fragrant smell, and crisp texture. This can be a very effective “anti-boring” dish.

3. Notes when making sweet and sour pickled beets

– You should choose beets with a straight and long shape. When you hold them, you will feel that the beets are firm, lightly squeezing to feel the peel is slightly hard and has a certain crispness.

– Beets that still have intact leaf stems and firmly attached to the root are also fresh, ensuring better quality and taste.

– If you can’t finish the pickled beets, you can put them in a glass jar and store them in the fridge.