Enjoy the vibrant color and earthy flavor of beets with these Beet Recipes. Full of flavor, fiber, and vitamins, beets are a must on any healthy person’s menu.
Salads, dips, and even soups can be enhanced by the sweet and robust flavor of beets. Read along and make your dishes more colorful and healthy by adding beets!
1. Beet Salad with Arugula
Roasting the beets is key to making this salad taste and look the best. No one wants super tough beets.
2. Roasted Beet Goat Cheese Salad
Beets’ subtle sweetness goes very well with the unique flavor of goat cheese. This is a perfect, tunning summer salad for your next garden party.
3. Pickled Beets
Pickling beets is a long, storied tradition that is usually used for some kind of side or topping. However, this recipe has a dual purpose: it can make the beets last even longer in the fridge.
4. Roasted Beets
Working on the basics, we need a recipe for roasted beets. These are so simple and easy to make and there are so many great tips to make clean up easy.
5. Raw Beet Salad
This recipe has so many great raw ingredients and is one of the healthiest beet recipes you’ll find out there! Just be careful with the juice; raw beets are vivid purple!
6. Beet Hummus
Beets give such a vibrant color to everything they touch (including a white apron), but they really shine in a hummus recipe like this. Just make sure you don’t reach for an acai bowl instead of this purple hummus!
7. Roasted Beets
Roasting beets is pretty straightforward, but this recipe puts a fun twist on the concept. This one adds balsamic vinegar to the beets and roasts them until they are caramelized.
8. Baked Beet Chips
Beet chips help preserve the veggie for many more months than other methods. To get the best results, sweat the beets and get the excess moisture out.
9. Ukrainian Borscht
Beets are a classic Slavic ingredient and this recipe brings so many vegetables together in an iconic dish. Borscht is a veggie filled soup that is easy to make from scratch. You’ll have it on the table in less than two hours.
10. Oven-Roasted Beets with Honey Ricotta
This simple recipe for roasted beets comes with a special garnish. If you want to make the ricotta a little extra special, try whipping it up with a whisk to give it some more body.
11. Beet Salad with Feta and Dill
Don’t be afraid to scrub the beets to get all the dirt off. While it may be tedious, this salad will thank you for the extra care.
12. Beet Apple Salad
Who doesn’t love a salad? Toasted pine nuts, dried cranberries, and a maple vinaigrette make this recipe feel like you’d see it in a five star restaurant.
13. Beet Salad with Balsamic Dressing
This salad mix has a little bit of everything: peppery arugula, cranberries, apple… You’d be hard-pressed to find something more fitting for a vegetarian.
14. Beet Salad
A sweet and savory dressing takes this simple salad to the next level.That, plus our old friend arugula, and you’ve got a winning salad.
15. Borscht
Finally, we have another borscht recipe. This one calls for a fresh beef stock, but as Ina Garten would say, ‘Store-bought is fine.”
Beets are one of the most underrated veggies in the garden. Despite its vibrant color, it seems to have been forgotten. Let these recipes show you how delicious they are!
