FINNISH BEET - HERRING SALAD

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FINNISH BEET - HERRING SALAD

2 med. size potatoes
2 carrots
2 c. beets ( canned or fresh)
2 tart apples, peeled & diced
1/8 tsp. white pepper
Lettuce
1 sm. onion
2 med. size dill pickles, diced
3/4 c. pickled herring


DRESSING:


1 c. sour cream
1 tbsp. lemon juice
2 tbsp. beet juice
Salt & sugar


Cook, peel and dice potatoes, carrots and beets (cook beets separately). Combine potatoes, carrots, apples, onion, pickles, herring and pepper. To prepare dressing, combine all ingredients. Just before serving add beets to salad. Serve on crisp lettuce.

www.cooks.com/recipe/jr0sv32v/finnish-beet-herring-salad.html

I have to try this because I like pickled herring and beets with the combination of other ingredients.

[Clipper]

I tried it tonight minus the main player. I am not crazy about herring, pickled or otherwise. The rest of the ingredients sounded like a tasty combo even without the herring and I love beets. Instead of the herring I used a can of solid white albacore tuna that I had on hand. I marinated the tuna for a few minutes in the juice from the dill pickle jar. Not anything like the original recipe, but it was quite tasty. I got very sick once on home canned pickled fresh water herring when I lived in Northern Minnesota. I used to love the dried smoked herring that they served in the bars, usually called blind robins for some unknown reason, but now the very word herring makes my tummy roll over, haha.

Since I have been on somewhat of a weight loss regimen I eat lots of different salads. One of my favorite lunches is a 3 mean salad. I like to make it with Italian cut green beans, wax beans and kidney beans, finely diced red onion, dressed with wine vinegar, olive oil, a tablespoon of fresh finely chopped oregano and white granulated sugar to taste. I heat the dressing and pour it over the beans and then refrigerate over night.

If you come across any more interesting salad variations please post them Alan. I love fresh veggies and salads. Instead of the old salty snacks that I used to eat, I often fix a small salad or some celery, carrot sticks and cucumber slices, and dip them in Hidden Valley Lite Ranch. Put five or six saltine squares or wheat thins on the side and it is a pretty wholesome, yet filling snack.

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I have to try that with tuna..I also like the 3 bean salad you just mentioned. I think Italian cut green beans taste better than the ordinary green bean.

[kit]

Clipper, try draining and adding a can of garbanzo beans to your next 3-bean salad and make it a 4-bean. The garbanzos add a nice chewy texture, a little denser than the kidney beans.

So now I'm getting hungry for a 4-bean salad. I'm off to the store tomorrow.

[Clipper]

I haven't ever tried garbanzos in anything other than pasta fagioli. I will have to try it in my next bean salad. I am sure that they must boost the protein content in anything you add them to and have a texture somewhat close to that of the big yellow butter beans. I've used those in salads and they are great when marinated in the dressing with the onions and other beans. I have tried just about every type of bean since starting this weight loss regimen. There are so many to select from. Limas, fava beans, lentils, pintos, and all are high in protein and fibre while low in cholesterol.

[chris]

I use to eat herring when I was very young when my mom served it but never actually bought any when older (although recently have been eying a jar and thinking of buying one) We called them sledja. I love beets too. Kit I make 3 bean salad sometimes with the garbanzo beans also.. depending on my mood.

Today I made pasta e fagioli from a recipe from Utica that is supposed to be the way Joeys Rest makes them. I must say it was the best I have made so far.