We planted beets for the first time this year and the first harvests are now coming in. I have way more beets than I know what to do with. I make fresh beet chips sometimes but that won’t use even close to all of them and isn’t really suitable to serve with a meal. Who has good beet recipes?

  • iArtemis [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    They’re amazing roasted and peeled in an arugula salad. I ate something like this with a honey-balsamic dressing like every other week last summer when I had a ton of them, but I might be biased because I honestly just really like 'em.

  • SpiderFarmer [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    I think pickled beets are amazing. Otherwise I’ve never grown very many, so I’m either eating them raw or on rare occasions using them as dye in food.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Pickled rainbow beets are something else! Slice em real thin and pickle em with 1/3 vinegar 2/3 water and a pinch of sugar and a smaller pinch of salt.

  • fubarx@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    • Peel, then use a grater, food processor, or mandolin to shred raw beets into thin little sticks. Drain the juice.

    • If you want some color, do equal number of peeled raw carrots.

    • Toss in a bowl with:

    • Freshly squeezed lemon juice. Lots of it. Don’t worry, the sugar in beets and carrots balances the lemon.

    • Olive oil.

    • Finely chopped parsley.

    • Couple of big dabs of Dijon mustard.

    • Salt and pepper.

    • Toss till mixed.

    • Cover and put in fridge till chilled.

    • Makes an excellent summer salad. Lasts a long time.

    Variation with extra stuff you can skip. Has picture close to outcome: https://www.eatingwell.com/simple-no-cook-grated-beet-carrot-salad-8658746

  • Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]@hexbear.net
    English
    5·
    2 months ago

    Red velvet cake and cream cheese icing. The beet juice colors the cake. By far the best use of a beet, and cake makes a great side dish.

    Deep fried beet chips.
    Roast root veggies.
    Pickled beets.
    Beets on salad w cheese n nuts.

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Some people just don’t like a thing but, beets are something I didn’t like until I made them right. It’s one of those foods where knowing what you’re doing with it is crucial. Also there are different kinds of beets and the taste is very different. Golden beets are dope raw and are sweet and juicy AF and taste like a beet but yellow if that makes sense, they also are yellow. Rainbow beets are almost more like a turnip. If you don’t like it you don’t like it, but if I knew you irl I would try to make you a nice beet food just in case you only had people do it bad. Many unpopular veggies are such a case.

          • peeonyou [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            yeah… i suppose someone out there might know how to make them in a way i could stomach, but i haven’t met that person

            same thing goes for cooked spinach… the smell alone makes my stomach turn

    • AndJusticeForAll [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Yeah my parents would serve me microwaved beets out of a can as a child. Hated them. Since then I’ve had them in mediumly tomato-fied borscht and stuff and haven’t minded them but plain beets suck as to me and I find it hard to mix them into meals the same way I could with potatoes or broccoli or corn or something. Just kinda’ bitter and tough-ish like most root vegetables but wet at the same time, it’s not appealing to me.

  • Eris235 [undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Not a side dish but a drink: I made some beet kvass recently, surprisingly good. Make sure to use the slavic sweet recipes, a lot of the English recipes make it salty, like kraut juice.

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Just grate raw beets and add em to a salad. Gotta peel the skin first, but raw beets are super super underrated. On a nice lil salad with carrots and onions and tomatoes, it’s real nice. Also SOUP beet soup rocks. If you wanna roast em soak em in water and then roll them.in salt and sugar and go high temp and fast. What kind of beets as well? There’s a lot of kinds. I fucking love beets.