THE BEETS HAVE WHAT IT TAKES

  If you hate beets, don't go here.  If you are on the fence - try these recipes and maybe, just maybe, Beets may become one of your favorite vegetable dishes.  

The worst part of working with red beets is that they bleed off their color.  I suggest working with rubber gloves when peeling.  

ROASTED BEETS

Ingredients :

2-3 medium size beets ( wash thoroughly and cut off greens )

Glass or Roasting dish that is higher than the size of the beets

Cover for this roasting dish

1/4 cu water

Dash Sea Salt

Red Wine or Rice Wine Vinegar to taste

Place beets in the pan with the water.  Cover tightly.  Place in an oven at 375 degrees for about 25 minutes.  Test with fork.  Beets to be soft, but still firm.  Take out of the oven.  Put in ice water just to cool down a bit.  Cut off the bottom tail and any top stem rough part left.  Peel by hand - the skin will just come off.

Slice thin.  Sprinkle with a dash of fine sea salt and if you want to use some pepper you can.  Sprinkle with vinegar.  

These are great warm or cold.

ALTERNATE :

As a salad dish you could use these warm over a bed of lettuce, with a slice of goat cheese and some capers.  Yum.