Roasted Beet Salad Recipe with Goat Cheese

This roasted beet salad with goat cheese is well certainly one of our favourite beet recipes. The mixture of tender roasted beets and our citrus dressing is unimaginable!

Each time we make this salad, we each say we should always make extra of it! It truly is so scrumptious and really certainly one of our favourite makes use of for beets. If you’re searching for a go-to beet salad recipe, that is it. This salad begins with roasting beets, however we’ve additionally added the choice to purchase prepackaged cooked beets, which you’ll simply swap in as an alternative of roasting the beets your self.

The citrusy dressing is so good with beets. Assume orange, lemon, just a little vinegar, and olive oil. It’s completely excellent. Then, we add creamy goat cheese and toasted walnuts for plenty of texture. If that wasn’t sufficient, this salad sits effectively within the fridge. The truth is, we predict the beets get higher and higher (all due to that unimaginable dressing). If you’re like us and love beets, however don’t truly use them sufficient, this recipe is for you! For extra beet recipes, see our pickled beets and these roasted golden beets.

Key Elements

• Beets: The star of our salad. We begin with uncooked beets and roast them complete till tender. Use purple beets or yellow/golden beets right here. To avoid wasting time, you can even buy precooked beets (often offered within the refrigerated part of the produce aisle). When you have any beets leftover, strive juicing them and make our beet juice (we find it irresistible a lot).
• Orange and Lemon: Our beet salad dressing is admittedly citrusy (which we love!). You’ll want an orange and a lemon to make it. The recent juice from each is what makes it so good.
• Olive Oil and Vinegar: These spherical out our dressing. Use a high-quality extra-virgin olive oil and a extra delicate vinegar, similar to white wine vinegar, rice wine vinegar, or champagne vinegar.
• Goat Cheese and Walnuts: After being tossed in our citrus dressing, the beets are beautiful all by themselves, however this salad comes alive while you add goat cheese and walnuts. The feel is wonderful, and the mixture is tremendous traditional (for a motive!). Different nuts work right here, too. Attempt pistachios, sliced almonds, or buttery pine nuts.
• Herbs: These are non-compulsory, but when you have already got them within the fridge, add a few tablespoons of chopped recent herbs. Mint, basil, and dill are our favorites.

Discover the complete recipe with measurements under.

The right way to Make Our Beet Salad

Tip 1: Roast the beets and allow them to cool. We already talked about utilizing prepackaged cooked beets in our salad recipe under, however in case you are like us and are beginning with uncooked beets, you have to to roast them for this salad. It’s foolish straightforward to do.

→ To roast beets for this salad, scrub them of any dust, then add to a sheet of foil. Drizzle with olive oil, scrunch the foil right into a packet, then roast within the oven till tender (we use 375°F, which takes about 45 minutes). As soon as your beets are tender, take them out of the oven, however go away them within the foil packet. Set them apart to chill to room temperature earlier than utilizing them to make the salad.

Tip 2: Make our citrus dressing. This dressing is totally excellent with beets. We make plenty of it. You’ll whisk collectively orange zest, lemon zest, orange juice, lemon juice, honey, vinegar, and olive oil. Season with salt and pepper, and it’s prepared in your beets.

Tip 3: Placing the salad collectively. When your roasted beets are at room temperature, peel them (a vegetable peeler makes fast work of it), then slice them into wedges. Add them to a bowl and pour a lot of the dressing over them. Prepare the beets on a platter, add goat cheese, scatter the nuts, then spoon extra dressing over all of it. End with herbs and a sprinkle of flaky salt (when you have any available).

Tip 4: Flip this right into a make-ahead salad. These beets are excellent for as much as 5 days within the fridge. For those who plan to meal-prep this beet salad, we advocate holding off on the goat cheese and including that as you serve it. In any other case, every little thing sits within the fridge rather well!

Serving Options

We’ve loved this salad on the facet with so many meals the previous couple of weeks. The one factor to bear in mind is that after this salad hits your plate, there’s a good probability that the intense purple dressing will stain just about every little thing else there, too. As a result of it’s so darn scrumptious, we don’t thoughts one bit, however we wished you to know!

A few of my favourite mains we’ve loved with this salad are on the lighter facet, like our lemon dill baked salmon, baked pork chops, grilled chicken breasts, glazed salmon, and oven-baked trout.

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