This salad is easy and very tasty. They are very healthy and used quite often in Russian and Ukrainian cooking. This colorful tasty beet salad is a perfect combination of earthy beets, sweet prunes, and crunchy walnuts. It’s a very simple recipe made with only four or five ingredients. It’s a great salad to make in advance as it tastes even better the next day. 
If you don’t like prunes or don’t have them on hand, this salad is also often prepared with raisins instead of prunes, or you can use both. The salad is made with cooked beets. The beets should be cooked whole using any method of your choice. You can roast, boil, bake, or steam-roast them. Good luck. 
Ingredients:
– 3 medium beets, boiled
– 1 clove garlic, minced
– 6 pieces prunes, chopped
– about 5,6 walnuts, chopped
– salt and black pepper to taste
– pinch of Dill seasoning
– 1/2 tsp sugar
– 4 tbsp olive oil Mayonnaise
To make:
1. Boil the beets first. To boil beets, without peeling them you need to cover them with cold water in a pot, bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer until cooked through and soft when pierced with a fork. About 25-35 minutes. If it is big beets cook more.
2. Chop the prunes, walnuts and set aside.
3. Once cool enough to handle, peel the beets skin by rubbing it with your hands. ( Use kitchen gloves to keep from staining your hands with beets). Grate them on big slots to the salad bowl. 
4. Add chopped prunes, walnuts, salt, pepper, dill, garlic, sugar and mayonnaise. Stir everything together and that’s it. Store in the fridge in a glass container with a tight lid for up to 2-3 days.
The main ingredients of the salad are very nutritious.
Beets are a very good source of dietary fiber, folate, potassium, and manganese. Prunes are also high in fiber and are a very good source of Vitamin K. Walnuts contain high amounts of omega-3 fatty acids. And garlic contains antibacterial and immune boosting compounds.
Choose beets which have rich dark red color.
Enjoy 😉
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