Preparation
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Scrub beets and cut the roots. Pat dry beets, wrap in foil (2.3 beets in each packet) and place on a baking sheet. Roast until tender when tested with a skewer or sharp knife, about 1 hour. Open the foil and allow to cool slightly beet.
2. Meanwhile, make the dressing: In a small bowl, orange juice, vinegar, mustard, herbs and
shallot. Drizzle with oil slowly while whisking vigorously until smooth. Season with salt and pepper and set aside.
3. Use paper towels to keep warm beet and massage gently to remove the skin you. Cut the beets into slices 1/4 inch thick and transfer to a medium bowl. Whisk dressing mix and stir to coat beets. Serve beets at room temperature or chilled, garnished with fresh tarragon temperature.
About beet
• The dynamic food coloring is more versatile than you think. You can grind them up and put them in salads; Hot cut, mix with butter and serve as a side dish; Used to marinate or as part of a plate of antipasti. Roast, mashed potatoes, roasted beets are a great dish. And of course, beets a secular basis for soups, including Ruby borschts with warm and cool colors.
• Despite beet used to consider only the red, now in a variety of colors, shapes and sizes. Probably the most popular of these new Chioggia beets (key-OH yes)
as Bull beet Eye Candy Stripe because of the way his flesh alternating bands of red and white known. It also beet sunny gold. Does not bleed a milder taste than most beetroot and color, such as red grapes. In addition to the regular beetroot, there are great varieties mutilation and Lutz, strains that are over two meters long and vegetables that are wonderfully juicy beets and babies as Pronto and Small Bull.
• If possible, buy online Mangold. The purchase of this way to ensure that it fresh because the Greens have a limited life. There is also the advantage of the greens themselves, which can be cooked like spinach or chard.
• Cut the leaves, where part connected to prevent 2 inches at the root bleeding sap. Keep leaves in a plastic bag in the refrigerator for up to 2 days. Cut raw beets can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 10 days.
• Gently beets. Do not rub or you can use the skin to break .. Beets easier to peel after cooking when the skins slide easily.
• Beet juice stains everything it touches. The combination of beets with other foods, keep them separate beets until the last minute, easily.