This salad does not need a lot of talking up, because it speaks for itself!
Bursting with flavors and colors, this is as fun of a salad to look at, as it is to serve and eat!
Roasted beets naturally caramelize and are full of deep flavor and can be tossed in a salad or eaten alone!
This salad is so versatile, so do not be afraid to make it your own, and add dried cranberries or blueberries, toasted walnuts or candied pecans, sunflower seeds, turn out the goat cheese for blue or feta! Go ahead a make it your own! Just make sure to share with us how you made it special!
So without further ado, I present to you, Roasted Beet Salad with Orange Citrus Vinaigrette and Goat Cheese!
Roasted Beet Salad with Orange Citrus Vinaigrette and Goat Cheese
Author: Andrea adapted from Allrecipes.com
Recipe type: Salad, Entree, Healthy Living, Roasted Beets
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Serves: 4-6
Great summer salad full of flavor and color!
Ingredients
- 6 small golden beets, scrubbed, tops off, halved
- 6 small red beets, scrubbed, tops off, cut in half or quarters
- ½ orange in parts (or mandarin orange
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- ½ teaspoon sugar cane
- ½ cup goat cheese (or blue cheese or feta)
- choice of lettuce (ex: butter lettuce, arugula, mache, romaine)
- For Orange Citrus Vinaigrette
- ⅔ cup rice wine vinegar
- ⅓ cup orange juice
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh mint or cilantro (optional)
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 1 teaspoon honey or agave
Instructions
- To Roast the Beets:
- Pre-heat oven to 425. Mix beets with oil, salt, and sugar cane. Spread on parchment paper lined baking sheet and roast for about 45 minutes. Rotate after 25 minutes to make sure they roast evenly. Roast until they are soft to a fork poke.
- Lay a bed of lettuce in a large bowl or serving plate and scatter orange pieces, goat cheese and beets on top and drizzle with Orange Citrus Vinaigrette
- Instructions for Orange Citrus Vinaigrette
- Whisk together the vinegar, orange juice, oil, mustard, garlic, mint or cilantro if using, and honey in a bowl or put in a jar and shake; store in refrigerator.
- *additional toppings: sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, dried cranberries, toasted or candied pecans or walnuts!
- Have fun and make it your own! You can use any other vinaigrette you like if you don’t want to make your own!
Hello, I’m just stopping by your blog for the first time and loving it! Any time I see a beet salad on a restaurant menu, I order it. I love beets so much! Can’t wait to try making this at home
Well thanks for stopping by! We hope its a place you feel welcomed to frequent as you please! I too, am a sucker for any salad that mentions ‘roasted beets’. I can’t believe I didn’t like them when I was a little twerp-the things that young taste buds don’t know!
I just checked out your blog and I love how it feels like you are talking to me, taking me through each step! That’s awesome. I also can’t wait to try your Healthy Baked Parmesan Fries! http://thescrumptiouspumpkin.com/2012/04/07/healthy-baked-parmesan-fries/.
We hope to keep in Touch Jen!!
Beautiful-looking salad! The colours alone are making me drool! Our goal here at home is to eat the colours of the rainbow everyday. This fills in a lot of the colours right off the bat! Cheers!
I like that concept! It is fun and gets the job done! Unless you pull out a bag of skittles or M&M’s… But I guess that would count… right? A lot funner concept than mine, of eating a new vegetable everyday! I just finished reading the books, ‘Raising Bebe’ and ‘French Kids Eat Everything’ and it’s totally motivated me to add more variety to my families eating life and super guilty when feeding them anything from a box! haha. For that reason, be cautious if you want to read these books
Thanks for the comment! Let us know how you like it! Taste the rainbow 
Ladies.this is a lovely and simple dish.perfect and cheap!i always put a teaspoon of nutritional yeast into my vinaigrette.it makes it creamy and even more flavorful.my husband loves it when I wrap one slice of bacon (smoked one from a European deli) around feta,roast it in a pan and then add to salad:)ohhh..so many variations,I am getting hungry just thinking of it