Boiled Beets Recipes

Boiled Beets Recipes

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 pounds beets, trimmed
• 2 tablespoon lemon juice or vinegar

Directions
Place the beets in a large saucepan and add water to cover and the lemon juice or vinegar. This will help to keep the beets from bleeding. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer until tender, about 45 minutes to 1 hour. Place pot under running cold water and let rinse until beets can be handled. The skins can now be easily peeled off the beets. Enjoy !

Balsamic Roasted Beet Salad

Balsamic Roasted Beet Salad
Ingredients

• 8 medium-size beets, tops removed and scrubbed
• 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
• 1/2 cup good olive oil
• 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard, such as Grey Poupon
• Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 4 ounces baby arugula
• 1/3 cup roasted, salted Marcona almonds, toasted
• 4 ounces soft goat cheese, such as Montrachet, crumbled

Directions

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
• Wrap the beets individually in aluminum foil and place them on a sheet pan. Roast them for 50 minutes to 1 hour, depending on their size, until a small sharp knife inserted in the middle indicates that they are tender. Unwrap each beet and set aside for 10 minutes, until cool enough to handle. Peel the beets with a small, sharp knife over a piece of parchment paper to prevent staining your cutting board.
• Meanwhile, whisk together the vinegar, olive oil, mustard, 2 teaspoons salt, and 1 teaspoon pepper and set aside. While the beets are still warm, cut each one in half and then each half into 4 to 6 wedges and place them in a large mixing bowl. As you're cutting the beets, toss them with half of the vinaigrette (warm beets absorb more vinaigrette), 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Taste for seasonings.
• Place the arugula in a separate bowl and toss it with enough vinaigrette to moisten. Put the arugula on a serving platter and then arrange the beets, almonds, and goat cheese on top. Drizzle with additional vinaigrette, if desired, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and serve warm or at room temperature.

Grilled Beets in Rosemary Vinegar

Grilled Beets in Rosemary Vinegar

How To Cook Beets Ingredients

• 1/3 cup balsamic vinegar
• 1 teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary
• 1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed
• 1/2 teaspoon herbes de Provence
• 3 medium beets, sliced into rounds

How To Cook Beets Instructions

In a medium bowl, mix balsamic vinegar, rosemary, garlic, and herbes de Provence. Place beets in the mixture, and marinate at least 20 minutes.
Preheat an outdoor grill for high heat, and lightly oil grate.
Place the beets and marinade mixture on a piece of foil large enough to wrap all ingredients, and seal tightly. Place the foil packet on the prepared grill, and cook 25 minutes, or until beets are tender.
Remove beets from the packet, and place directly on the grill grate for 2 to 5 minutes before serving hot.
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How to cook beets: German-style-beet-salad.

HOW TO COOK BEETS

HOW TO COOK BEETS

Step 1
Wash the beets and trim the ends off before cooking.

Step 2
Place trimmed beets in a roasting pan and add a little water for steam. Roast the beets at 425 degrees F for 30 to 45 minutes (cover the pan with foil) or until the beets are easily pierced with a knife. Slip off the skins under running water and slice or dice.

Step 3
If boiling, cook the beets for 20 to 30 minutes, or until tender.

Step 4
If using a microwave oven, cook the beets with a little water for 8 to 15 minutes.

Step 5
Match beets with orange (juice and zest), ginger or both.

Step 6
Dress beets with a vinaigrette. Serve warm or at room temperature. Add some sweet onion, parsley, and hard-boiled egg chunks for a hearty salad.

Step 7
Keep the beet greens - you can cook and eat these like any other slightly bitter greens

Step 8
If you're mixing beets with other vegetables (in a salad, for instance), cook and dress the beets separately and add them last. Their vivid color will seep into everything else otherwise.
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Beets

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How to cook beets
It is difficult to believe how the raw beets can be transformed into something wonderfully soft and buttery once they are cooked. While beets are available throughout the year, their season runs from June through October when the youngest, most tender beets are easiest to find.

Edible green leaves are attached to the tapered round or oblong root portions that we know as beets. While we often think of beets having a reddish-purple hue, some varieties are white, golden-yellow or even rainbow colored. The sweet taste of beets reflects their high sugar content making them an important raw material for the production of refined sugar; they have the highest sugar content of all vegetables, yet are very low in calories
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Health Benefits of Beets

Health Benefits of Beets
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Remember all those legendary Russian centenarians? Beets, frequently consumed either pickled or in borscht, the traditional Russian soup, may be one reason behind their long and healthy lives. These colorful root vegetables contain powerful nutrient compounds that help protect against heart disease, birth defects and certain cancers, especially colon cancer.

Beets Promote Optimal Health

The pigment that gives beets their rich, purple-crimson color-betacyanin-is also a powerful cancer-fighting agent.
Beets' potential effectiveness against colon cancer, in particular, has been demonstrated in several studies.

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In one study, animals under the double stress of chemically induced colon cancer and high cholesterol were divided into two groups. One group received a diet high in beet fiber while the other group served as a control. The beet fiber-fed animals rose to the challenge by increasing their activity of two antioxidant enzymes in the liver, glutathione peroxidase and glutathione-S-transferase. The liver is the body's primary detoxification organ where toxic substances are
broken down and eliminated, a process that generates a lot of free radicals. Glutathione peroxidase and glutathione-S-transferase are the bodyguards for liver cells, protecting them from free radical attack, so they can continue to protect us.

In other animal studies, scientists have noted that animals fed beet fiber had an increase in their number of colonic CD8 cells, special immune cells responsible for detecting and eliminating abnormal cells. With the increased surveillance provided by these additional CD8 cells, the animals in one of the studies given beet fiber had fewer pre-cancerous changes.
In stomach cancer patients, when scientists compared the effects of fruit and vegetable juices on the formation of nitrosamines, cancer-causing compounds produced in the stomach from chemicals called nitrates, beet juice was found to be a potent inhibitor of the cell mutations caused by these compounds. Nitrates are commonly used as a chemical preservative in processed meats.

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How To Make Sauteed Beets

How To Make Sauteed Beets
How to Cook Beets

When cooking beets for dinner, choose sauteed beets whenever the other foods that are part of the meal are on the dry side (such as grains or rice). The cooking technique you use should always be considered in relation to the entire meal.

How To Cook Beets Instructions :
Place a frying pan with a lid over medium heat.
Add a little extra-virgin olive oil (1 teaspoon should do it).
When the oil is hot, add pre-peeled diced or chopped beets. Stir.
Add a few Tablespoons of water** and cover with lid.
Saute for 5-15 minutes, depending on how small you have made them. Beets are done when they're tender to your liking. Serve the sauted beets..
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How to cook beets: beet-salad.