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Rosolje

Name: Rosolje
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Estonia
Ingredients: 2 Beets; 2 Potato; 100g Salted herring; 2 Cucumber pickles; 1/2 Apples; 1 Hard-boiled eggs; 150g Sour cream; 1 tsp Mustard; 1/2 tsp Sugar; A pinch Salt

Side Dish

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Beets, potatoes, and herring dressed with sour cream — Estonia's pink holiday salad.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Rosolje is a salad always found on Estonian tables at holidays like Christmas and Independence Day. Boiled beets, potatoes, pickles, apple, and salted herring are finely diced and dressed with sour cream and mustard, turning a vivid pink. Some families use meat instead of herring.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On an Estonian family's Christmas table, a bowl of pink salad sits beside dark bread and blood sausage.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Beets 2
Potato 2
Salted herring 100g
Cucumber pickles 2
Apples 1/2
Hard-boiled eggs 1
Sour cream 150g
Mustard 1 tsp
Sugar 1/2 tsp
Salt A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil the beets and potatoes in their skins, cool, peel, and cut into 5mm cubes.
Cut the pickles, apple, and herring to the same size.
Mix the sour cream with mustard, sugar, and salt.
Toss everything together until the beet color spreads throughout.
Plate and garnish with boiled egg.

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