Apple-and-Beet Salad

Name: Apple-and-Beet Salad
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 8 beets; 8 servings Black pepper; 12 curly red lettuce leaves, rinsed and dried; 59 milliliters crumbled blue cheese or goat cheese; 680 grams Granny Smith apples; 2 teaspoons kosher salt; 1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice; 177 milliliters toasted pecan halves; 3 smalls red onions, unpeeled; 59 milliliters balsamic vinegar or red wine vinegar; 118 milliliters sour cream; 2 Tbsps vegetable oil

Apple-and-Beet Salad might be just the side dish you are searching for. Watching your figure? This gluten free and vegetarian recipe has 242 calories, 5g of protein, and 15g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 8. This recipe covers 12% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. A mixture of beets, kosher salt, curly lettuce leaves, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so yummy. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400F. Trim beet greens, leaving a 1-inch piece of stem. Scrub beets and dry on paper towels. Sort by size and tightly wrap and seal large and small beets separately, along with onions, in two heavy-duty aluminum-foil packages.

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Beet Greens

Onion

Beet

Wrap

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Aluminum Foil

Oven

Place packets on a baking sheet. Roast until beets are tender when pierced with a fork, about 1 hour for small beets and 1 1/4 hours for large. Unwrap packages and let cool for about 15 minutes. Peel and trim beets and onions, halve crosswise and thinly slice.

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Onion

Beet

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Baking Sheet

Transfer to a bowl.

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Bowl

Add vinegar, oil, 1 1/4 tsp. salt and a pinch of pepper to beet mixture and stir until blended. Refrigerate, tightly covered, until chilled, at least 2 hours and up to 1 day. Taste and adjust seasonings before serving.

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