47 and still undecided if beetroot is great or terrible.

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Keep ordering it and putting it in salads thinking ‘yeah, this salad and ergo my life will be better with some soft purple stuff in it’ and then I eat it and I’m slightly unnerved by both the flavour and texture.

Does beetroot ever get better?

Yes. In Asian recipes. Curries and raitas. I make a coconut beetroot curry.

Love it covered in vinegar

Hate it on its own.

Actually scrap the beetroot and I'll just drink the vinegar!!!

I always hated it until I discovered you can eat it raw. It’s lovely and crunchy.
I make a beetroot, orange, feta and dill salad and it’s delish.
I won’t touch the cooked stuff though

Imo you either need to roast it to a burned crisp - or grate it and kill it with sugar and cocoa powder. The leaves are nice though…

Yep.

Roast it (oil, salt) til soft. Delicious.

But also:

Boil til soft, peel, then whizz up. Add salt, bit of yoghurt, some olive oil, some dill, some pomegranate molasses if you have, a bit of red wine vinegar if not. Bit of garlic if you like.

Stick in a bowl. Top with crumbled feta, more dill, toasted walnuts, black onion seeds.

Dunk in toasted pita, flatbreads, anything really. It's divine. Something along these lines:

thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/beetroot-borani/

No. It's a room 101 vegetable as far as I'm concerned. I really dislike the "dirty" earthy flavour. The only semi reasonable way to eat it is as part of a bag of root vegetable crisps where they are slightly less disgusting than parsnips.

Beetroot is great.
Unless you put it in a juicer and chug it back.
Then it is terrible.
It will make you feel dizzy and weird.

Dizzy and weird how?

Lots of delicious sounding recipes and then here’s the post that makes me deeply suspicious of it again.

Vegetables shouldn’t increase your risk of falls.

No, it doesn’t get better (unless it’s completely hidden in a chocolate cake).

I like a mix of grated raw beetroot and carrot, topped with sharp feta and mixed seeds.

Haha your thread title made me smile.
On it's own it's like a lump of earth.

I like, well as you said not sure like id the word in it's vinegary shredded state from a jar. Less of it somehow 🤣

I disagree. I tried a chocolate and beetroot cake not knowing that it contained beetroot and wondered why it had a rank earthy taste, to be told that it was from the beetroot. IMO beetroot has no business being in a cake.

My people. It is my Saturday Kitchen Food Hell.

@RampantIvy THANK YOU for saying that, I feel like everyone goes on about how lovely “healthy” beetroot brownies are, they taste absolutely vile. Waste of a good brownie imo

The dizziness thing: I think beetroot is known for lowering your blood pressure. But this really is only if you juice it raw and drink it fast. That makes its contents instantly available to your body, like mainlining heroin, and hugely magnifies something that generally isn't a problem at all.

There's so many ways that beetroot can be lovely -- especially borscht. And of course it has the added benefit that while you are preparing it you can enjoy pretending thst your kitchen is a bloodsoacked murder scene.

Love it but as pp say it's much much better roasted or raw rather than boiled. Unless extremely new and tender I'd expect to take around an hour in the oven in order to comfortably get the skin off. Then either warm veggie side dish (add onions, bacon cubes, sour cream and fresh parsley) or salad- can be similar or e.g. with added orange slices & some orange liqueur like Cointreau or Grand Marnier.

Grated - there's a lovely Georgian grated (raw OR ore-cooked) beet salad dressed with walnuts, garlic, coriander and fenugreek.

Goat cheese or feta work really well with beets. Have seen quite a few recipes using mayo as well but cannot stress enough how wrong that seems. Love mayo normally but the taste is all kinds of wrong with beets!

I don’t get it. It looks so pretty, especially when you see the different kinds in a salad. And the texture is interesting. But it tastes disgusting.

It tastes like mud

Trout is another one that tastes like mud.

Beetroot (oven roasted) cheese and crushed crisp and mayo sandwiches 😋

Beetroot should go to room 101.

I just love eating COLOUR. Anything that can stain your innards to that extent and make your urine crimson is surely worth ingesting.

@barneymcgroo definitely trying that recipe. Sounds promising.

It's a pity South Indian food is not as popular in the UK because they have a million delicious ways of cooking beetroot and in fact many scorned vegetables: jackfruit, pumpkin, gourds, greens.. All obliterated by chicken tikka masala!:)

My favourite lazy dinner is to chuck peeled and chopped beetroot in a baking dish with olive oil and some cloves of garlic, shake to coat with oil and bake for a while. Serve with feta or goat's cheese and crusty bread.

Love it. Savoury Tarte Tatin with caramelized red onion, beetroot and feta.
Beetroot sandwiches on thickly buttered white bread with salt and white pepper.
Borscht.
Baked with sweet potatoes, onion wedges, olive oil, thyme.

I love the Jamie Oliver recipe with beetroot, feta and pear, with the beetroot and pear sliced like matchsticks with a julienne peeler. I think it has toasted seeds too, pumpkin maybe?
It’s so delicious and I think it’s the only way I can enjoy beetroot. The slicing method is important though imo.