Recipe - Marinated Vegetables With Mustard Dill Dressing

FOR MARINADE
2/3 cup White wine vinegar
2/3 cup Water
1 One half tablespoon Sugar
2 teaspoon Dill seed
2 Garlic cloves; forced
through a garlic press
1 teaspoon Salt
1 One half pound Beets; scrubbed and trimmed,
leaving about 1inch of
stem attached
1 One half pound Carrots; cut crosswise into
3 sections and each section
quartered lengthwise
1 One half pound Green beans; cut into 1
1/2inch pieces

FOR DRESSING
3 tablespoon Dijon mustard
2 tablespoon White wine vinegar
1 tablespoon Water
1 tablespoon Sugar
Three fourths teaspoon Salt
1/3 cup Olive oil
3 tablespoon Finely chopped fresh dill

Make marinade:

In a small saucepan bring marinade ingredients to a boil, stirring until
sugar is dissolved, and cool.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Wrap beets tightly in foil and roast in middle
of oven 1 to 1 One half hours, or until tender. In a large saucepan of boiling
salted water cook carrots until crisp tender, 6 to 7 minutes, and transfer
with a slotted spoon to a bowl. Unwrap beets carefully and cool. Slip off
beet skins and slice beets, transferring to another bowl. Divide marinade
between beets and carrots, combining well, and marinate, covered and
chilled, at least 4 hours.

In saucepan of boiling carrot cooking water cook beans until crisp tender,
5 to 6 minutes, and drain in a colander. Rinse beans well under cold water
and pat dry between paper towels. Vegetables may be prepared up to this
point 1 day ahead and chilled, covered.

Make dressing: In a bowl whisk together mustard, vinegar, water, sugar, and
salt and add oil in a stream, whisking until dressing is emulsified. Whisk
in dill.

Just before serving, toss beans in a bowl with 2 tablespoons dressing and
drain beets and carrots. Arrange vegetables decoratively on a platter and
drizzle with remaining dressing.

Yield: 8 servings

Notes: Recipe courtesy of Gourmet Magazine

Recipe by: Cooking live Show #9027

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #967 by "Angele and Jon Freeman"
jfreeman@comteck.com on Dec 19, 1997