Beet and Goat Cheese Salad with Pistachios

Name: Beet and Goat Cheese Salad with Pistachios
Prep time: 5 h
Cook time: 5 h
Total time: 5 h
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 0 teaspoons black pepper; 113 grams soft mild goat cheese; 2 larges golden beets (1 lb without greens); 2 Tbsps fresh lemon juice; 946 milliliters oz mâche (also called lambs lettuce), trimmed; 59 milliliters pistachio oil; 3 Tbsps salted shelled pistachios (not dyed red), coarsely chopped; 3 larges red beets (1 2/3 lb without greens); 1 teaspoons salt; 59 milliliters minced shallot

Beet and Goat Cheese Salad with Pistachios might be just the side dish you are searching for. This recipe makes 8 servings with 141 calories, 5g of protein, and 11g of fat each. This recipe covers 8% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have salt, pistachios, golden beets, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 5 hours. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free, primal, and vegetarian diet.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 425°F.

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Oven

Separately wrap red and golden beets tightly in double layers of foil and roast in middle of oven until tender, 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Unwrap beets.

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Golden Beet

Beet

Wrap

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Aluminum Foil

Oven

While beets are cooling slightly, whisk together shallot, lemon juice, salt, and pepper in a small bowl, then add oil in a stream, whisking.

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Lemon Juice

Shallot

Pepper

Beet

Salt

Cooking Oil

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Whisk

Bowl

When beets are cool enough to handle, slip off and discard skins. Separately cut red and golden beets into 1/4-inch dice and put in separate bowls.

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Golden Beet

Beet

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Bowl

Add 2 1/2 tablespoons dressing to each bowl and toss to coat.

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Bowl

Place cookie cutter in center of 1 of 8 salad plates. Put one eighth of red beets in cutter and pack down with your fingertips. Crumble 2 teaspoons goat cheese on top, then one eighth of golden beets, packing them down. Gently lift cutter up and away from stack. Make 7 more servings in same manner.

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Golden Beet

Goat Cheese

Red Beet

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Cookie Cutter

Drizzle each plate with 1 teaspoon dressing and scatter with some pistachios.

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Pistachio Nuts

Toss mâche with just enough remaining dressing to coat and gently mound on top of beets.

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Beet

Mache

Serve immediately.

Beets can be roasted and diced 1 day ahead and chilled, covered. Bring to room temperature before using. • Molded beet salad (without mâche) can be assembled 45 minutes ahead and kept, covered, at cool room temperature.

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Beet

Mache