Beetroot!

[Eloisedublin123]

Hello lovely mumsnetters
I bought 15kg of beautiful organic beetroot from the farm (online!)
It’s sllliiightly more than I thought ☺️
Would be grateful for your wonderful recipes 😁

Beetroot and feta dip! Every last bites is decent. Or roast some and topple over a salad

This (known as ‘pink pasta’ in our house).

Roast it whole, then chop up and make a salad with goats’ cheese and walnuts.

Grate raw and add to shredded red cabbage and sliced red onion and make pink coleslaw.

Goes well in a savoury tarte tatin, perhaps with shallots or carrots (the purple ones look good).

Surprisingly good on a (white) pizza or flammkuchen, with pine nuts and balsamic vinegar.

Wash but do not peel. Cut into quarters. Get 3 bulbs (yes, bulbs, not cloves) of garlic and cut in half horizontally. Smother with olive oil and thyme. Roast at 180 for 49 mins turning occasionally. Serve with crusty baguettes to mop up the garlicky oil. This is lush.

Wear an apron. Beetroot juice is nature's finest dye. And expect your wee to turn bright red the next day as well. I only reminded my DD about this after the event and the poor girl had spent the morning worrying that she had blood in her wee.

Lovely ideas! Thank you ladies 🙏

Beetroot chocolate cake, really good! The batter is a great colour too.

realfood.tesco.com/recipes/beetroot-and-chocolate-cake.html

ps it tastes even better after a couple of days.

Borscht

I roast it and eat in as part of dinner or I grate it thinly in the food processor and serve it with a slightly sharp vinaigrette.

fifteen kilos....FIFTEEN??? oh lol you are going to be peeing pink from now til Easter!

I'd pickle some, but I adore pickled beetroot ate a jar a day and drank the juice when pg

PP cake recipe is good, beetroot chocolate cake is nice

I always mean to do salady stuff with it, but dh doesn't like it, or salad really but I don't let him get away with no salad.

I bet it is lovely roasted, I might get some and do that....and that pasta recipe sounds nice too.

15 kg 😝
Thanks a million ladies
I’m low in iron so I’m delighted to have the lovely beetroot and lovely recipes and ideas x

www.foodandwine.com/recipes/zaatar-spiced-beet-dip-with-goat-cheese-and-hazelnuts

this is SO delicious, an Ottolenghi recipe

What’s Zaatar like?

Zaatar is good, local Lebanese restaurant does it and we have managed to recreate it at home.

Make beetroot into curries with loads of tamarind.

Or pate with puy lentils, walnuts, mushroom and roasted beetroot. (really good iron levels).

Beetroot and orange chutney, sweet and chunky. Made now it will have matured nicely for Christmas.

You can add chopped carrots if you haven't got enough beetroot....

Something I remembered and cooked today, after buying very fresh beetroot was beetroot tops ( like chard or spinach), use cooked (streamed) or in salads .

Beetroot chutney
Beetroot Brownies (Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall) - lush!

Beetroot, fennel and apple soup. Really delicious. Sent it to my DF this week.

Or there is a honey roast beetroot recipe (think it's bbc good food) which is really nice.

If you get hold of leaves, chop everything with some potato, add stock and serve it with dollop of creme fraiche.

You can cook it and freeze it.

Yesterday I made a beetroot and mint dip with hazelnuts, that was lovely. For dinner this evening I made a beetroot, carrot and potato oven roasted frittata, that was very nice. Also beetroot, orange and ginger smoothies are amazing and keep colds at bay or so I tell my children! 😁 love beetroot. Fil dropped a load of this weekend. Always looking for new recipes.

@queenofkale

The recipe looks lush but I am more interested in your recipe file . Do you print off recipes and put them in a file divider? Mine are rammed into a kitchen drawer and look a bit sht.

roast with sweet potatos.normal potatos.and red onion.add pepper or other veggies if you wish.gorgeous.
brownies.

I do a lasagne -layer bottom to top
Ragu, pasta, spinach and garlic mushrooms, pasta, grated beetroot, pasta, ragu, cheese sauce. This will use one beetroot.

queenofkale which book the recipe came from?

Roast beetroot and butternut squash - oil, herbs for about 45 mins. Add some crumbled stilton and walnuts and roast for another 5-10 mins and devour