Beetroot Manna Snack with Cheese

A very unusual taste and interesting texture is obtained from a manna cooked with a lot of boiled beets! Boil the beets, add the manna-milk mixture, fried onions, grease with sour cream, sprinkle with cheese and bake. The dish is unambiguously unconventional and easy to prepare! Recommended for beet lovers!

Cook: 3 hours

Servings: 4

Ingredients

• Beets – 2 pcs. (450 g)
• Semolina – 180 g (1 glass of 200 ml)
• Milk – 200 ml
• Sour cream (21% fat) – 100 g
• Bulb onions – 100 g (1 pc.)
• Hard cheese (“Russian”) – 100 g
• Salt – 0.5 teaspoon
• Ground black pepper – on the tip of a knife
• Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp

For filing:

• Sour cream (optional) – to taste
• Fresh parsley (optional) – to taste

Directions

1. Prepare the food you need. I used Russian cheese.

   

2. Rinse the beets, put in a saucepan, cover, cover with water and bring to a boil. Boil the beets over low heat until cooked. Depending on the size of the beets, this will take approximately 40-70 minutes. Cool and peel the finished beets.
3. Pour the semolina with milk and set aside for 20-25 minutes.
4. Grate the peeled beets on a coarse grater.
5. Peel the onion and cut into small cubes
6. Preheat oven to 190-200 degrees. Heat vegetable oil in a skillet, put chopped onion and fry, stirring occasionally, over medium heat until translucent, 3-5 minutes.
7. Place the chopped beets in a skillet
8. Stir and cook everything together over medium heat for 5-7 minutes, stirring occasionally. If the beets are not juicy, you can add some water to the pan.
9. Combine the beetroot mass with the swollen semolina. Add salt, black pepper to the semolina, mix.
10. Cover a baking dish (mine is 23×20 cm) with parchment paper. Put the beetroot mass in the form, flatten
11. Put the sour cream on top of the “islands”.
12. Spread the sour cream with a fork or spoon over the entire surface of the manna. Put in an oven preheated to 190-200 degrees. Bake for 15-20 minutes.
13. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater and sprinkle with hot manna. Put it back in the oven and bake at the same temperature for another 15 minutes.

    

14. Beetroot manna snack with cheese is ready! Take it out of the oven, remove it carefully from the mold and cool to room temperature. Cut into portions and serve.
15. When serving, supplement the beetroot manna with sour cream and chopped parsley leaves.

Bon appetit!