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Friday, November 18, 2011

Vinegret (Russian Vegetable Salad)

This week I am going to share one of my favorite healthy Russian vegetable salads called Vinegret. It consists of beets, carrots, potatoes, pickled cucumbers and peas. It is pretty basic but tasty and nutritious. 

I am a fan of beet and I really enjoy it with other vegetables.
So let's have a look at health benefits.


Inspirational Note on Health Benefits:
I have discussed health benefits of beets while speaking about the popular Russian soup - borsht (read health benefits of beets).
So let's speak about carrots in this section. So according to The Condensed Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (by Michael T. Murray, Joseph PIZZORNO, Lara Pizzorno) "Carrots are