Shuba (Russian Layered Salad with Beets)

Name: Shuba (Russian Layered Salad with Beets)
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 Red beets; 2 Potatoes (medium); 2 Carrots; 1/2 Red onion; 1 Hard boiled egg; 1 dash Dill; 4 tbsp Mayonnaise; 1/2 tsp Sea salt; 1 dash Coarsely ground black pepper

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This Russian home-style dish was served when I visited a Russian friend. Apparently the original version includes smoked herring (it's called"selyodka pod shuba" (herring in fur coats), but I left the herring out of this recipe.

You can use canned beets (in which case just skip ahead to Step 4 in the recipe). The cooking time for the vegetables will vary depending on how they are cut, so I recommend practicing a little in order to cook them up uniformly. Recipe by AnnaNanna

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Ingredients

6 servings

2Red beets
2Potatoes (medium)
2Carrots
1/2Red onion
1Hard boiled egg
1 dashDill
4 tbspMayonnaise
1/2 tspSea salt
1 dashCoarsely ground black pepper

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Steps

1

Cut the leaves off the beets. Peel the carrots and cut in half. Put the beets, carrots and potatoes in the same pan and start cooking them in cold water.
2

When the pan comes to a boil, turn the heat down to medium. In about 15 minutes the potatoes and carrots will be done, so take them out of the pan. Peel the potatoes.
3

Boil the beets for another 10 minutes or so (until a bamboo skewer goes through them easily). Take them out of the pan, cut off the tough parts on the top and bottom, and peel.
4

Either grate or roughly chop up the potatoes, carrots and beets. Finely chop the red onion, hard boiled egg and dill too.
5

Layer half the red onion, potato, carrot and beets in a bowl in order. (The photo shows the carrot layer.)
6

Spread half the mayonnaise evenly on top of the beet layer. Sprinkle with sea salt and black pepper.
7

Repeat Steps 5 and 6, and finish by decorating the top with hard boiled egg and dill. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for several hours (overnight if possible).
8

Serve the salad in the bowl, or slice as shown and serve.