Ukrainian vinegret salad with beets and carrots

Name: Ukrainian vinegret salad with beets and carrots
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Eastern European
Ingredients: 2 Beets; 2 Carrots (large); 2 Garlic cloves; 150 g Frozen peas; to taste Salt and pepper; to taste Olive oil; to taste Lemon juice; 125 g Mozzarella

Ukrainian vinegret salad with beets, carrots, and peas, briefly braised and seasoned with garlic and lemon. Serve warm or cold. Serves 4.

Eastern European cuisine · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 25 min
Servings: 4 servings
Difficulty: Easy
Cuisine: Eastern European

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Ukrainian vinegret, a hearty vegetable salad with beets and carrots, is made with briefly braised vegetables. Braise the beets, carrots, and peas in olive oil for about ten minutes so the carrots stay slightly crisp. Season with garlic, lemon juice, salt, and pepper. Enjoy it warm or cold, with mozzarella or cottage cheese added just before serving. Serve it for dinner or in place of a side dish.

Instructions

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Cut the beets and carrots into pieces of your preferred size. Rinse the peas under warm water to thaw them. Heat the olive oil in a skillet, add the vegetables, and braise for about 10 minutes, until the carrots are still slightly crisp and the peas are cooked but not mushy.
Add the crushed garlic and lemon juice, and season with salt and pepper. Serve the salad cold or warm, adding cottage cheese, mozzarella, or another shredded cheese only once the salad is on the plate.
Toss and serve.

Tip: Cut the beets into smaller cubes than the carrots, since beets soften more slowly and could still be hard after ten minutes of braising.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 186 kcal
Protein: 11 g
Carbohydrates: 18 g
of which sugars: 8.9 g
Fat: 8.6 g
of which saturates: 4.6 g
Fiber: 5.0 g
Salt: 1.2 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Ukrajinský šalát vinegret s cviklou a mrkvou