This is a delicious winter salad, the wonderful combination of beetroot, potatoes, pine-nuts gherkins, feta cheese and capers has me hooked. At the moment I am cooking this once a week and everybody who tries it loves it!
Ingredients
Four or five Beetroot
Baby new potatoes (roughly equal quantity to the beetroot)
Two good hands full of runner beans,
half a block of Feta cheese,
a handful of chopped gherkins,
a tablespoon of capers,
two or three spring onions
table spoon of pine-nuts.
oil and vinegar
Method
Peel the beetroot , cut into bite sized pieces and boil till tender. While the beetroot is cooking, boil the new potatoes in their skins. Boil the runner beans till tender. Drain all cooked veg and cool a little meanwhile toast the pine nuts in a pan and chop gherkins and spring onions. Cut up the feta cheese into small cubes and combine with the other ingredients in a salad bowl. Toss with a mix of good Balsamic vinegar, white wine vinegar and extra virgin olive oil, salt and pepper.
Serve warm. If you want you can add a couple of chopped hard boiled eggs.
Slainte
Jim
