Tangy And Creamy Beet Salad

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This beet crockery look has roasted beets and peppery arugula pinch an easy homemade dressing. Serve it arsenic a broadside aliases a ray meal

Flavor: The beets are earthy and sweet, while nan vinaigrette balances it retired pinch a spot of saccharine tang. I emotion arugula because it has a spot of a peppery bite.
Time-Saving Tip: While it’s easy roasting beets is really easy, it does return time—most market stores waste cooked beets.
Prep ahead: Roast nan beets and hole nan dressing up to 4 days earlier serving.
Serving suggestions: Make it a ray repast by topping pinch chicken aliases shrimp.
Yield: This look yields 4 servings, but you tin adhd a container of shredded coleslaw operation to widen nan look for other servings.

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Ingredient Tips For Beet Salad

Greens: Peppery arugula is my first prime for a beet salad, but it tin beryllium replaced pinch spinach, kale, aliases a outpouring mix.
Beets: Beets should beryllium roasted. You tin besides bargain cooked beets astatine nan market store, which are different than pickled beets.
Cheese: I emotion creamy goat food successful this look aka chevre. Substitutions see crumbled feta food aliases parmesan food petals.
Nuts: Toast nan nuts successful a skillet for other flavor. For a nut-free crunch, usage pepitas (pumpkin seeds) aliases sunflower seeds but cheque nan ingredients—many are roasted successful peanut oil.

Beet Salad Dressing

Dressing: Homemade dressing is very simple, and it’s ray and tangy. Since it tin beryllium made days up of time, I urge making it homemade.

If utilizing a purchased dressing, I propose thing saccharine and tangy for illustration poppy seed dressing aliases chromatic mustard dressing.

PRO TIP: For nan champion crunch and flavor, toast nuts aliases seeds successful a barren cookware until conscionable fragrant. They pain fast, truthful support them moving and watch closely. Cool earlier using.

How to Cook Beets for Salad

For nan champion saccharine spirit and velvety soft texture, I urge oven roasting beets successful foil for astir an hour. Just trim nan ends off. The peels will gaffe correct disconnected aft roasting.

For quicker prepping you tin besides steam aliases navigator on nan stovetop.

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Storing Beet Salad

Beet crockery tin beryllium stored covered successful nan refrigerator for up to 4 days. Simply flip nan crockery and adhd other arugula and dressing if desired.
Assemble beet salad, without dressing, up to 3 days up and chill. Add dressing conscionable earlier serving.

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Beet Salad

Sweet and silky roasted beets, creamy goat cheese, and peppery arugula are tied together pinch a tangy Dijon, honey, and balsamic dressing.

Prep Time 20 minutes

Total Time 20 minutes

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Salad

▢ 8 cups arugula
▢ 4 large beets cooked and cooled
▢ ¼ cup chopped toasted walnuts or pecans
▢ ½ cup goat cheese or feta cheese, crumbled
▢ ½ red onion thinly sliced

Dressing

▢ 2 tablespoons white balsamic vinegar or pome cider vinegar
▢ 1 tablespoon lemon juice
▢ 2 teaspoons honey
▢ 1 ½ teaspoons Dijon mustard
▢ ¼ teaspoon garlic powder or ½ clove caller garlic, minced
▢ ⅓ to ½ cup vegetable oil
▢ salt and achromatic pepper to sensation

Place arugula successful a ample bowl. Top pinch beets, walnuts, goat cheese, and onions.
For nan dressing: Whisk together nan vinegar, citrus juice, honey, Dijon mustard, and ail powder. Slowly drizzle successful lipid while whisking until nan dressing is somewhat thickened. Season pinch brackish and capsicum to taste.
Drizzle dressing complete crockery and service immediately.

Refrigerate leftovers successful an airtight instrumentality for up to 4 days. Re-toss earlier serving.

Nutrition accusation provided is an estimate and will alteration based connected cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.

Course Salad

Cuisine American

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