I'm up to my eyeballs in beetroot off my allotment, but its not something I've ever grown / eaten much before; so what the hell can I do with it? I hate vinegar and won't consider pickling it, and there's only so much barszcz that a man can make or eat.
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baz_faz
Do you hate vinegar so much that you wouldn't put an olive oil/vinegar/sugar dressing on cold cooked beetroot? Top with chopped parsley. It's one of our winter salads here.
A good Turkish dish iuses cooked beetroot, diced. Then put some oil in a frying pan, warm it, add garlic, paprika and tomato sauce (not puree out of a tube or can, but properly reduced tomatoes). When it's all bubbling nicely add the beetroot. Turn it all over to amalgamate. Then tip into a serving dish. Top with chopped parsley. Serve cold.
I have a recipe for beetroot puree long cooked with vinegar. It goes well with game. But you say no to vinegar....
2
kerikiwi
Soup:
4 beetroot
olive oil
onion
2 tspn cumin seeds
1 tspn fresh sliced ginger
garlic
2 tspn smoked paprika
1/2 tbspn balsamic vinegar
500 ml veg stock
Cook beetroot. Rub off skin. Chop up.
Fry onion. Add cumin seeds. Toast a little. Stir in ginger garlic and paprika.
Add beetroot and stock. Simmer 20 minutes or so.
Blend into soup.
Season. Serve with sour cream.
Freeze into individual servings so you have soup until next beetroot season.
3
tonieja
Summer beet soup chlodnik.
The recepies in English (Am) have meat as one of the ingredients. Never had it with meat - it's a light veggie soup.
Beetroots with dressing (alightly different than Baz_Faz's):
- boiled beetroots in halves, slices or cubes
- dressing:
1/2 veg oil, 1/2 olive oil
crushed garlic
s & p
fresh lemon juice
Same as above, with crumbled soft goat cheese
And the simplest: beetroots halves or slices with melted butter and chopped parsley
4
cogito
Send it to me.
the unlikeliest salad I ever had was beetroot, hazelnut and raspberry, and it was lovely. Obviously there was a dressing - balsamic, I think.
Roasted beetroot is nice, too. Or done en papillotte (sp??) with garlic and olive oil.
Makes a nice slaw shredded up with red cabbage.
Braised with red cabbage as well.
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baz_faz
In Riga I had beetroot and watermelon salad. If you are travelling the world to collect unusual salads, that is one.
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