Beets

I dont have a real recipe for this, so I'll estimate... it's really simple, so just adjust everything to taste:

3-4 beets, cooked, and sliced thickly
3-4 tablespoons crumbled cheese - feta, goat, or blue
2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
handful of chopped nuts - walnuts or pecans

mix the lot up, stick in the fridge to marinate and cool.

to have it more salty and light, use feta. for a more complex taste, use blue. I've even used slivered almonds to sub for walnuts or pecans. it works with canned beets, but those never taste nearly as good as fresh beets.

*When you roast them, are the crunchy or mushy? The beet salad I had was crunchy.

*When you roast them, do you peel them first? I read what The JoC had to say and it said that the skin would come right off, but that seems unlikely.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=ethiopian+crunchy+beet+salad

i just scrub the skin. but you could peel it too, no worries. peeling probably will get more red on ya.

Mushy beets = bad.

xpost - what does that do to the color of your teeth?

I got some in my produce box yesterday. Rah rah rah.

Also, I revived this for Sarah, since she asked about beets on the Chicago thread.

Yeah, I know I'm not here often but -- beets! With onions, pecorino cheese, tossed with oil and red wine vinegar, etc.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1408/701746031_d0a668bdc6.jpg

That's so pretty!

Did you use sweet onions or hotter ones? And were the beets roasted or pickled? (All these combos sound good to me, btw.)

I roasted a giant beet last night. It smelled so lovely and full of vitamins!

Today I will eat it in a salad with greens and feta.

Beets!

I need to try one of these things.

You do! It only took me...let's see...TWO YEARS to finally roast one. They are a vegetable marvel. They kind of remind me of edible geodes -- all rocky, craggy and scary on the outside; lovely and shiny and marvelous on the inside.

i got a vac-pac of pickled beets on sunday and have had 3 beet salads so far. i think tonight's is going to be with stilton.

I just ate 1/2 of the roasted beet in a salad:

spinach
tabbouleh
beets (cut into slices and then thin strips)
feta
lemon juice

They were crunchy! I'm pleased. Thanks, ILCooking.

I am roasting beets RIGHT NOW! So beautiful, so delicious.

i have had beets 3 times this week! yay!

I am about to roast some beets.

I roasted beets (for the first time) (in foil) a few days ago! They were awes.

Sliced beets+goat cheese+walnut+vinaigrette.

i just made a salad inspired/similar to this:http://chocolateandzucchini.com/archives/2008/03/grated_carrots_and_beets.php#more

i love raw beets at least as much as cooked. juiced, with apples, carrots, celery, and ginger is a magical elixir

Does anyone know if shredded beets do ok when frozen? If so, about how long do they do ok this way?

I have been eating a lot of beets this summer and want to do so once the bounty ends, which is pretty soon I reckon.

Everything I'm finding online recommends blanching them before freezing (they keep longer that way, 10-12 months @ 0 deg F). So you could shred, blanch for 3-5 minutes in boiling water, drain, pack into containers and freeze.

Ok, that's not too hard to do. Thanks!

I'm pretty sure I never posted my pictures of the BEET RISOTTO I made:

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i134/dgoobl/BeetRisotto1.jpg

Red!

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i134/dgoobl/BeetRisotto2.jpg

wow! amazing. i'm getting a beet salad riiight now

it was great, but i bet not as good as your risotto =)

Bumpin my beets thread to say that I bought some GORGEOUS golden beets. They look like a beautiful rainbow and I can't wait to eat them.

Mmm... I need to make another beet risotto. I made one several months ago with orange and dill, and it was really lovely. Plus, it looks like a grisly crime scene in a bowl.

i add beets to my vegetable burrito mix. makes everything hot pink and they go perfect w/ jalapeños

So far I have eaten them in salads: one w/ pea shoots, avocado, onion, orange muscat/walnut oil/sriracha dressing over romaine
Other was to add more substance to leftover green papaya salad leftover from last night (added fennel too!)

Both were really good, but I kind of keep expecting them to taste like a mango but then they don't.

Mmmmm steak look good

I don't eat meat =(

i've come so far with beets in the last 5 years!

i don't eat very much meat, but i'll eat it

my love for beets has not waned in 6+ years
last night i made a flatbread/pizza thing with

roasted beets
shredded chicken
spinach
gorgonzola
pine nuts
garlic/oo

and it was delicious. just a bunch of stuff from the fridge, but it sat well together.
i feel like at this point it's safe to say that beets and i are bffs 4 life

Nothing special but tasty nevertheless

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8060/8238782082_48c1814641.jpg

would def eat

but it has chicken on it!

oh :(

sorry! i could easily not put chicken on it for your sake. it would taste just as good, it just wouldn't have chicken on it.

I just roasted 4 medium-size beets, two red and two golden! I have long had a severe beet aversion related to a childhood of what my parents called "Harvard beets," which were beets out of a can (or maybe it was a jar?), and anathema to me, made worse by the fact that I always got yelled at for dropping some on myself and thus staining the clothing permanently :(

I am going to slice the roasted beets and toss them with some navel orange and a vinaigrette made with I dunno maybe shallots and sherry vinegar? And some roasted walnuts? Maybe I should pick up some goat cheese. Ohhh and I have tarragon in the garden!

yes, good start! you might want to put that mixture on something green to cut its intensity -- any greens will do. not necessary, but this is my preference.

canned beets are gross and they are also the reason why i thought beets were gross until i tried them again at the beginning of this thread!

I have some arugula, I will put the beets on that!

Canned beets are uuuugh I don't even want to think of them for fear of gagging :(

here's a tip -- toast the walnuts in a pan with some butter, brown sugar, salt, and cayenne pepper -- just enough to make a little crust. it will taste v good with the sweetness of the beets.

Oh that sounds great and I have all of those things at hand!

They're really good -- if you don't want to use them all, you can save them for future salads or toss them into some brownies (sounds weird, tastes great.)

i got some huge beets today. i have had beet brownies and can confirm they are great.

bought a bunch of beets from the market, will be roasting them imo

do u guys eat them hot? all the talk itt seems to be salad-related?

I love them just out of the oven - I always make extras so we have plenty for salads later, but they are so good warm.

i like them both ways
any old way except for out of a can basically

do u guys eat them hot? all the talk itt seems to be salad-related?

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 December 2012 19:25 (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

roasting is great but most of the time i just grate them & do something with that - fold it into rice or risotto or something. they work better as a taste (& colour!) than as a skewerable constituent part of a meal, for me.

i'm going to try them roasted with a horseradish/greek yogurt sauce, on spinach (with grilled chicken)

whoa damn that was delicious!

dehydrating them currently. not sure how I feel about this.

Sounds like a lot of work. They keep pretty well in root cellar type storage.

Checked the dehydrator this morning and they felt almost done. We're experimenting with making our own soup mixes.

Hope it works well - did you cut them into cubes?

recent beet revelation: they are awesome in sandwiches! was skeptical when i first noticed this on a menu i was perusing, but then i put some cooked beets, sliced thinly, on a sandwich with stuff - avo, greens, goat gouda, mayo/mustard - and all these things are friends so the combination is really **cking sublime. raw grated beets exude a fair bit of moisture so (on a sando.) the juices end up making it a little soggy, if you're not gonna eat it right away ime.

Civilised countries sell sliced beetroot in tins specifically so that they can go in sandwiches (and burgers)

civilised = tinned beets. uh, duly noted

I’m attesting to their excellence in sandwiches, not scolding you for cooking them!

(The American mode of selling whole cooked beets in plastic shrinky-dinks is properly mental, though)

I would eat cooked beets + goat cheese + greens on anything. It's too bad that the cheapest beets are basically splatoon grenades, though.

lol, sry sic! xxpost

haha i started this thread!!
glad people are coming around to the excellence of beets

just looked upthread and wondering what was this Ethiopian beet salad all about? did it have potatoes? a quick google gives recipes that all have potato, which reminds me of a potato salad my evil step mum made that she called "Russian Potato Salad" that was a potato salad that had cubes of cooked beet in it. another killer application

this opened to the middle of the thread with one of la lechera's beet salad pictures from 7 years ago and i was thinking, "it's 2019, she should get a phone with a better camera" lol

i'm going to pickle beets next year

well, this year, but when the beets start growing again

lately i have been making the ethiopian beet salad very simply -- matchstick sliced raw beets (regular, golden, or mix of both) + raw green beans cut into 1" pieces + either queso fresco/farmer's cheese/a fancy feta (sheep milk for example) with some quality olive oil and salt/pepper. the rest of the dishes i usually make to eat with it are so heavily spiced that it's a nice counterpoint imo.

you could put potatoes into it if you want! small ones (cooked, obvs, probably boiled/cooled?)

i should definitely get a phone with a better camera in 2019 though that's for sure. my phone is probably 6 years old! i also got locked out of my flickr account for ?? a long time

mine's old too, your pictures after that one looked fine! it just took me back to simpler times

i love raw grated beets in a veggie wrap -- press them between paper towel first though or the juice gets everywhere

Civilised countries sell sliced beetroot in tins specifically so that they can go in sandwiches (and burgers)

― sans lep (sic), Sunday, 13 January 2019 18:23

Underrated giveaway you're Australian in the brackets there.

(The American mode of selling whole cooked beets in plastic shrinky-dinks is properly mental, though)

― sans lep (sic), Sunday, January 13, 2019 7:36 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Have never seen this in the USA but it's standard in French supermarkets, and fabulous. Would you rather have to boil them first to prepare them? Obviously we can buy raw beets as well.

raw grated beets + grated apples + grated cabbage = THE BEST COLESLAW.

with a bonus of red fingertips for the next 24+ hours.

oh, will try that tout de suite!

i prefer fresh cooked they taste much better, imho, and i take exception to extra plastic packaging. but cooked, store-bought beets are a pretty good product and a nice convenience in a pinch. xpost

Euler: tins, the alternate container I cited, hold the juice safely inside for as much of the contents as you don’t use at first. Flappy plastic with scissor-cuts in will spill it throughout the fridge, if it didn’t get all over the counter already.

oh I see, it's a problem with plastic over metal, ok, I can see that. we just use the whole thing every time but we're a family of five.

beets rule

kind of fascinating imo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah-Idaho_Sugar_Company

prefer juan wauters solo tbh