Ingredients for RussianĀ Vinaigrette Salad
How to make RussianĀ vinaigrette:
Ā As a quicker alternative to boil vegetables, I use Instant Pot pressure cooker to steam vegetables. I add beets and cook it for 12 minutes on normal high pressure. Quick release. Then I add potatoes and carrots and cook together with beets on high pressure for additional 10 minutes. Quick release. The beets, potatoes and carrots should be fork soft and ready to cool and dice.
3. Drain the vegetables and Let them cool to room temp
4. Peel the skins from the potatoes, beets and carrots, than dice pickles, beets, potatoes, carrots into a small cubes. You can use a food chopper if you have anyĀ to make the process faster. Otherwise it doesn't take long to dice cooked vegetables.Ā Also you can shred the beets on the food shredder instead of dicing it.
5. Combine all the chopped ingredients. Add sauerkraut, oil, salt and pepper to taste and mix all together well. Enjoy immediately and refrigerate.
Recipe notes:
- Beets - 1 Large
- Potatoes - 2 Large
- Carrots - 2 Large
- Pickles - 4 Large
- Sauerkraut - 1 cup, drained
- Dressing: Olive oil or Avocado oil - 2 Tbs
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Optional and highly recommended - Raw white or Red onion, finely chopped
- Also you can use green onions or chopped dill for decoration.
- In a medium pot, boil unpeeled beets for 1 hour or until it can easily be pierced with a knife. Or use canned beets which donāt require any cooking or ready cooked beets.
- In a separate pot, boil potatoes and carrots about 30 minutes or until a knife goes smoothly through the potatoes.
- As a quicker alternative to boil vegetables, I use Instant Pot pressure cooker to steam vegetables. I add beets and cook it for 12 minutes on normal high pressure. Quick release. Then I add potatoes and carrots and cook together with beets on high pressure for additional 10 minutes. Quick release. The beets, potatoes and carrots should be fork soft and ready to cool and dice.
- Drain the vegetables and Let them cool to room temp
- Peel the skins from the potatoes, beets and carrots, than dice pickles, beets, potatoes, carrots into a small cubes. You can use a food chopper if you have any to make the process faster. Otherwise it doesn't take long to dice cooked vegetables. Also you can shred the beets on the food shredder instead of dicing it.
- Combine all the chopped ingredients. Add sauerkraut, oil, salt and pepper to taste and mix all together well. Enjoy immediately and refrigerate.
Dan
There is no one recipe for Russian Vinaigrette , but you can add add dill (in lieue of green onion), and sweet peas. Also, it is important to stress that the proportion should be maintained that no one vegetable should dominate the salad, although dill and sweet peas are more for garnish. This is not a potato salad with some other garnish. The size of the pieces should be small enough so that we you can grab it on the fork you get almost all the ingredients.
Irina
Thank you! Yes I love garnishing with dill too... and sweet peas sometimes...