VIDEO: Beetroot leaves

You can use beetroot leaves as salad eat or prepare it cooked.

Beetroot leaves are so healthy

• Beetroot in itself is very healthy. It contains betaine, which stimulates the liver cells, strengthens the gall bladder and can increase the happiness hormone serotonin. In addition, when consumed regularly, beetroot can lower blood pressure.
• The beetroot leaves contain even more vital substances than the beets and are therefore too good for the compost. The leaves contain seven times more calcium than the beets, six times more magnesium and vitamin C, two hundred times more vitamin A and two thousand times more vitamin K.

How to prepare a salad to eat

1. Cut off the leaves and stems from the beets.
2. Clean the tubers, bring them in a saucepan water to boil and cook them on low temperature for about 1 hour. Larger tubers can also take a little longer. You can use a fork to test whether the beets are soft enough.


Prepare beetroot and its leaves as a salad

The beetroot is related to the Swiss chard and the sugar beet and is also called ...

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3. When they are done, pour the water away and rinse the beets with cold water.
4. Skin the tubers and cut them into slices.
5. Clean the stems and leaves and cut them into pieces.
6. Boil these in the water for about 15 minutes until they are soft.
7. In the end you give vinegar add salt and let the leaves cook for another two minutes.
8. Add the beetroot pieces and let everything cool down before covering in the fridge for about an hour.
9. During this time you can peel the garlic clove and cut it into small cubes.
10. Rinse the parsley and chop it very finely.
11. Remove the beetroot salad from the stock with a slotted spoon and transfer it to a bowl.
12. Add olive oil, vinegar, pepper, garlic and parsley.

You can serve the salad with hearty meals.