I may have mentioned this before, but I couldn’t find my earlier post.
Shredded beet salad with shredded apple, shredded coconut, chopped pecans and a splash of toasted sesame oil. Nice as an small accompaniment but not a real ‘side’. I prefer the yellow beet here.
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I’ve been doing an apple and beet salad fairly frequently lately.
Apple, toasted beet, sour cream, dill, white balsamic.
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Beets & Chicken discussion 
We just came back from dinner out for my birthday. We shared a salad called “Beet Carpaccio” which was thinly mandoline sliced raw beets on a goat cheese cream, topped with sprouted arugula, champagne-shallot vinaigrette and chopped toasted pistachios. I’m too afraid of my mandoline to reproduce it at home, but it was so incredibly delicious and fresh. The pistachios tangled into the arugula so nicely, the beets were earthy and crisp, the goat cheese cream base was brilliant.
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look at mandolin styles ala OXO - they come with a “holder” - has pins that stick into the ‘stuff’ - like a beet - and your fingers are not in danger.
works great on anything ‘roundish’ - but not for long thin stuff (example cucumber)
I use it frequently for cucumber - one simply has to avoid the temptation to ‘slice the cuke to the last millimeter’ - I sclice them down to ~2" length, then eat the stub (g)
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Do you all eat your beet skins or not?
I have always peeled my beets before or after cooking.
we’re fond of home made fresh pickled beets.
I boil them in vinegar+water+smidge of sugar.
cool; peel by purple finger method; slice; refrigerate in the boil liquid . . .
so much better that jarred stuff…
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Eating unpeeled beets is actually a thing?
Next thing you know, people will be eating unpeeled pineapples.
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Can’t beat it for high fiber content!
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just make sure the peelie pointies face up . . .
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I’m not into raw beets, but I’ve had a similar combination where (cooked) beet slices were stuffed with a goat cheese mixture as “ravioli” — similarly delicious!
Don’t know if anyone mentioned it, but the greens are edible.
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The greens are delicious!
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