New Recipe – Beetroot Salad Cardinal Ippolito

When I was a child I had to eat beetroots very often, if not daily. A doctor said I suffered from anaemia and advised to eat beetroots. This should help against anaemia. No idea if it really helps and if this is still advised in our days – anyway, I do not longer suffer from anaemia …

Though the beetroots were then cooked (very long) and were always a bit mushy I liked them and ate beetroot salad whenever I got it. With grandmother´s tip to serve it with grated horseradish the dish became savoury. I liked this very much. Even as a child – I might have been 10, 11 years – I liked eating hot and spicy dishes. There was then a kind of family-competition among us cousins who was able to eat the most pieces of pickled “Pfefferoni” (green spicy peppers).

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Beetroot salad with horseradish is still one of my favourite salads, and my salad is much better than the salad of my childhood. The main reason is that I found out – it was only some years ago – that one can have beetroots raw! Great! Something to bite! Mushy beetroot salad good-bye!

  • Ingredients (serves 2 as a side dish)

  • 1 medium size beetroot (raw)
  • 1/2 blue onion
  • salt, pepper
  • linseed oil
  • balsamic vinegar (best organic quality!)
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  • horseradish or hempseed and/or chive and/or parsley to garnish

Wash, peel and grate the beetroot as fine as possible (I do it with the finest julienne grater of the mandolin). Dice onion.

Put it into a bowl, pour oil over it (to taste – I usually take 3-4 tbsp) and mix well.

Add salt and pepper. Let sit for about half an hour. Add balsamic vinegar.

Garnish with grated horseradish or hempseed and serve with baked vegetables Medici gardens.

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