Turkish salad with beetroot, radish, and feta cheese
Delicious Turkish salad with beetroot, radish and feta cheese that will delight anyone who wants to try beetroot in a different way.
Ingredients
- 1 beetroot (medium sized)
- 4 radishes
- 2 cloves pickled garlic (see the note)
- 6 olives
- 80 grams feta cheese
- 2 spoons lime juice
- 2 spoons olive oil
- ¼ tablespoon ground anise
- 1 tablespoon coriander seeds
- ½ tablespoon cayenne pepper
- 1 star anise (see the note)
- 1 tablespoon fresh thyme
Instructions
Salad
- Wash the beetroot and cook it in salty water until tender. Drain and let it chill for a minute. Peel and cut it into small wedges or thin slices, whatever you prefer. Save 2 tablespoons of water in which the beetroot was cooked.
- Mix the sliced beetroot, sliced radish, olives, and thinly sliced pickled garlic. Add the dressing, mix well with ingredients and leave it for 30 minutes.
- Then add the feta cheese, and sprinkle with cayenne pepper, and fresh thyme. And you're ready to eat.
Dressing
- Grind the coriander seeds with a mortar and pestle. Mix it with 2 spoons of cooking liquid, lime juice, olive oil, and ground anise and drizzle over the salad.
Notes
In the original recipe, instead of pickled garlic goes one small red onion. But, last year I pickled two small jars of aromatic garlic and decided to put it in this salad instead of red onion and it works really well for me. However, you can use the red onion if you don't have pickled garlic.
As for the cooking beetroot, I like to add 1-2 star anise in the cooking liquid (depending on the amount of beetroot I'm cooking) because of better flavor, but you can skip this step if you don't have or don't prefer star anise.
Also, if you're going to eat this salad on its own, then this amount of ingredients would be enough for one person. But, if you're going to serve it as a part of a mezze platter, then it would be appropriate for 4-6 persons.
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Nutrition
Calories: 344kcalCarbohydrates: 20gProtein: 15gFat: 25gSaturated Fat: 12gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 9gCholesterol: 71mgSodium: 1361mgPotassium: 566mgFiber: 8gSugar: 6gVitamin A: 1842IUVitamin C: 22mgCalcium: 512mgIron: 5mg
Nutritional information provided is an estimate based on ingredients data and should be used for informational purposes only. Actual nutritional content may vary based on factors such as portion size, preparation methods and ingredients used.