What is your favorite way to eat beets?

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  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    Snip8241 wrote: »
    Pickled with hard boiled eggs. So good and so pretty.

    Do you mean pickled together with the eggs, or unpickled boiled eggs with pickled beets?
  • Go_Mizzou99
    Go_Mizzou99 Posts: 2,628 Member
    pickled or as a salad with a vinegar/oil spiced up with salt, pepper, garlic, and diced onion and whatever else is in season in my herb garden.
  • almostdownton
    almostdownton Posts: 2
    chadya07 wrote: »
    pickled. i am pretty sure after many tries that that is the only way i like them. there is the brand mama something or other, they carry at albertsons whole in a jar, they are delicious.

  • almostdownton
    almostdownton Posts: 2
    oh they are good. I have found the juice to be a great salad dressing. Want some now.
  • darkrose20
    darkrose20 Posts: 1,139 Member
    Borscht (or however you spell it).
  • samb330
    samb330 Posts: 328 Member
    Yummy recipes. I love beets. Thanks for sharing. Definitely buying beets!
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,096 Member
    I like them boiled, steamed, or roasted, cold in salad, with goat cheese, pickled ... but a couple of months ago MFP posted a smoothie recipe in its blog that used frozen cooked beets, along with berries and greek yogurt. It was really tasty, and since then I've been throwing frozen cooked beets into all kinds of smoothies. Goes great with spinach, pumpkin, banana, peanut butter -- pretty much everything!
  • ksolksol
    ksolksol Posts: 194 Member
    lynn_glenmont wrote: »
    I like them boiled, steamed, or roasted, cold in salad, with goat cheese, pickled ... but a couple of months ago MFP posted a smoothie recipe in its blog that used frozen cooked beets, along with berries and greek yogurt. It was really tasty, and since then I've been throwing frozen cooked beets into all kinds of smoothies. Goes great with spinach, pumpkin, banana, peanut butter -- pretty much everything!

    I do beet smoothies, too, but mostly with fresh grated. Might have to try frozen cooked. I had problems with the canned ones not smoothie-ing-out adequately so had little beet lumps. The grated has worked much better for me.

  • mygnsac
    mygnsac Posts: 13,413 Member
    Toss them with a little olive oil, orange juice, orange zest, and salt and roast them. Yummy. Also love them raw in smoothies, and pickled.
  • LilyOfTheValley008
    LilyOfTheValley008 Posts: 95 Member
    There was actually a show called River Cottage on last night where the guy made beetroot chocolate brownies which looked so amazing!
    I really want to try it, well a healthier version.

    I also like putting them in juices/smoothies. And when I used to eat cheese I used to love a good ol' beet, cheese and lettuce sandwich.

  • KANGOOJUMPS
    KANGOOJUMPS Posts: 6,474 Member
    yum, I LOVE THEM TOO, and eat them all day, every day,, they are so good for blood pressure, I have a soup that I adore.
  • Angurla
    Angurla Posts: 159 Member
    Love all the suggestions. I spent my first 38 years saying I will eat anything except beets. So I have made it my personal mission to learn to like beets. My friend tried to convert me years ago with boiled beets and mayo! Didn't work. Then I had borscht! I was in heaven. This soup is amazing! My mom also canned beets and I like them her way. Looking forward to trying some of the suggestions here. I will enjoy beets!
  • magnum26
    magnum26 Posts: 356 Member
    No offence but I hate the americanism of "beets". (One of my many americanism hates) :#

    However I enjoy beetroot simply chopped on some salad. :)
  • MEC1964
    MEC1964 Posts: 1
    Even sliced canned beets are good served covered with feta cheese, drizzled with a low cal balsamic vinegar dressing, then topped with some chopped walnuts.
  • merisaOct3
    merisaOct3 Posts: 197 Member
    I am seriously a beet junkie. Red, golden, all of the above. I clean (scrub) them, cut the tops off, then drizzle them with truffle oil or olive oil and sprinkle smoked paprika and sea salt. Loosely wrap them in foil and roast at 400 deg until they are fork tender, about 45 minutes. Let cool and peel off the exterior skin. Slice and serve with goat cheese, walnuts, over field greens with a vinaigrette.
  • SlvrStarr
    SlvrStarr Posts: 47
    Homemade beet pickles. I've got this recipe from a 1950's canning book that has cinnamon, clove and allspice, the are absolutely delish!

    I peel them, roast them until they are almost tender and then store them in the freezer for later. Pull out a serving in the morning, add some feta cheese and a light drizzle of honey or basalmic vinegar. By lunchtime they are thawed and ready to devour.
  • jess_blonde
    jess_blonde Posts: 229 Member
    Roasted and cooled, topped with goat cheese and honey mustard!
  • HereLieWe
    HereLieWe Posts: 233 Member
    Roasted and added to salad. Or blended into a smoothie.
  • jim_just_jim
    jim_just_jim Posts: 148 Member
    I couldnt stand them but needed variety in my diet, had them shredded in a slaw and was hooked ! Ive eaten them canned ( pre-cooked and sliced ) and covered in a light raspberry vinagrette :) Some great ideas here, Im going to buy one or two and try roasting them ! Thanks guys !
  • libbydoodle11
    libbydoodle11 Posts: 1,351 Member
    I like fresh beets juiced.
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    jim_just_jim wrote: »
    I couldnt stand them but needed variety in my diet, had them shredded in a slaw and was hooked ! Ive eaten them canned ( pre-cooked and sliced ) and covered in a light raspberry vinagrette :) Some great ideas here, Im going to buy one or two and try roasting them ! Thanks guys !

    Beet slaw! Why have I never thought of this? Genius!
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    magnum26 wrote: »
    No offence but I hate the americanism of "beets". (One of my many americanism hates) :#

    However I enjoy beetroot simply chopped on some salad. :)

    Some of us eat more than the root. ;)
  • calx77
    calx77 Posts: 31 Member
    Need2Exerc1se wrote: »
    magnum26 wrote: »
    No offence but I hate the americanism of "beets". (One of my many americanism hates) :#

    However I enjoy beetroot simply chopped on some salad. :)

    Some of us eat more than the root. ;)

    What else do you mean? The leaves?
  • eldamiano
    eldamiano Posts: 2,667 Member
    My favourite way is to cover it with lashes of overpowering sauce, meat and bread in a way that I can barely taste the beet at the end of it....
  • ksolksol
    ksolksol Posts: 194 Member
    edited November 2014
    ingle92protege wrote: »

    What else do you mean? The leaves?

    Yep. Beet greens are lovely, lovely things. Saute some onion in a bit of olive oil until translucent and then add the beet greens and cook just until tender. They're also good raw as a salad. Then there's finely diced beet root cooked in with the greens. Yummmmm....

  • LadyNovaOz
    LadyNovaOz Posts: 1
    edited November 2014
    I have a few recipes if you're interested:
    novamorganoz.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/beetrooted-adventures.html
  • RoseyDgirl
    RoseyDgirl Posts: 306 Member
    love beets

    peeled and chopped, drizzled with olive oil, and a sprinkling of sea - salt and baked.
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    - So easy to make, and yet tasty.
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  • squirrelone
    squirrelone Posts: 58 Member
    Pickled on top of warm liver pate on fresh sourdough rye bread.
  • Lasmartchika
    Lasmartchika Posts: 3,440 Member
    The only way I have ever eaten them is the canned ones. Just directly add them to a salad or just alone. Those are the ones my mom would buy growing up. I liked them, but I actually never bought them myself. Sad to say, I don't even know how a fresh one looks like.
  • RockWarrior84
    RockWarrior84 Posts: 840 Member
    Like a basketball player into the trash

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