Coronary heart-shaped beets with greens and baguette bread
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Valentine’s Day is crimson, rosy and romantic — so serve brilliant, pink beets, the colour of valentines! For a easy valentine deal with, reduce roasted beets into 1/2-inch slices. Lower into hearts with a cookie cutter or sharp knife. Unfold with cream cheese or chevre, or sprinkle with crumbled feta. Function-is, or on high of greens, pita crisps or baguette slices.
Beets are versatile. Whereas chocolate is often a candy snack or dessert, beets could be candy or savory. They are often heat or chilled. Roast them, boil them, steam them, fry them. Make soups, salads, sandwiches, pesto, hummus. There’s beet gnocci and beet ravioli. There’s beet jam, beet relish and beet wine. Virtually something could be made with beets.
Valentine Soup is often known as borscht — any soup made pink with beets. There are various varieties, from a skinny consomm broth to a thick soup with meat, beans, potatoes and greens.
The very best-known baked deal with made with beets is Purple Velvet Cake, however beets can add their deliciousness to cookies, muffins, pies and different baked goodies.
Oatmeal Beet Cookies
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Beets are candy! They’ve a better sugar content material than candy potatoes or carrots.
Chocolate does have well being advantages: polyphenols and flavonoids are good for cardiac well being and most cancers prevention. Different chemical substances in chocolate have an effect on the neurotransmitters within the mind, affecting temper.
Beets are wholesome. With solely 55 energy per cup, they comprise massive quantities of fiber, potassium, manganese, folic acid and nutritional vitamins A and C. Highly effective antioxidants and flavonoids in beets assist shield you in opposition to coronary heart illness and colon most cancers. Betacyanin, the dye answerable for the intense crimson colour of crimson beets, is highly effective most cancers preventative.
Valentines Day is rosy, crimson, pink, romantic. Create candy, savory, brilliant, daring recipes for the particular individuals in your life.
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Valentine Salad
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Valentine Salad
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Elements:
2 potatoes
3 or 4 eggs
1 – 2 cups spinach leaves
1 or 2 tablespoons contemporary minced dill
1 pickle
1/2 candy onion (about 1/2 to 1 cup)
1 heaping tablespoon mayonnaise
2 heaping tablespoons plain yogurt
2 or 3 beets, roasted, peeled and sliced
Instructions:
In salted water cook dinner potatoes till tender. Drain, cool, and cube.
Prepare dinner eggs till hard-cooked. Place in chilly water and peel. Put aside
Line salad plate with spinach leaves.
Chop dill, mince onion, chop pickle.
In bowl, mix potatoes with dill, onion, and pickle. Fold in mayo and yogurt.
Place on high of spinach in middle of salad plate.
Chop the eggs; place half the eggs over potatoes.
Slice beets and organize on high. Sprinkle with remaining eggs and crumbled feta cheese.
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Processor Oatmeal Beet cookies
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Elements:
6 tablespoons butter (or equal quantity coconut oil)
1 1/2 cups oats
2 medium beets
1/2 apple, peeled and cored
1/2 cup maple syrup
1/2 cup yogurt
1/2 cup flour (any kind)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 400 levels F.
Line cookie sheet(s) with parchment paper.
Place butter, oats, beets, apple and maple syrup in meals processor and course of till every thing is mixed.
Switch to a bowl. Stir in 1/2 cup plain yogurt.
In small bowl, combine collectively 1/2 cup flour (any kind), 1 teaspoon baking soda and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Stir into the dough. Stir in 1/2 cup raisins and 1/2 cup walnuts.
Place on cookie sheet by teaspoonfuls.
Bake about 15 – 20 minutes.
Makes about 2 or 3 dozen cookies.
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Writer of the award-winning cookbook “Backyard Connoisseur: Recent & Fabulous Meals out of your Backyard, CSA or Farmers’ Market,” Yvona Quick lives in Lake Clear and has two passions: cooking and writing. She could be discovered at www.yvonafast.com and reached at yvonawrite@yahoo.com or on Fb at Phrases Are My World.
