Fresh Roasted Beets
By: Cindy Mulligan
Published: Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 4:36pm

Ingredients




Fresh beets, peeled and quartered

Olive Oil

Salt & Pepper

Preparation

1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 2 Using a paring knife, peel the beets.  Quarter them and place on a large piece of foil on a baking sheet.  (Larger beets may need to be cut smaller.  You want the pieces to be of similar sizes so they all bake the same length of time.) 3 Drizzle olive oil over the beets; season with salt and pepper.  Toss the beets to combine the oil and seasoning over all. 4 Loosely wrap the beets up in the foil, creating a pouch; make sure to leave space around so the beets so they have room to steam. 5 Place in oven for 45 minutes.  Open foil pouch so the beets are exposed to the heat, return to the oven for 15 minutes more. 6 The most difficult part of this recipe…. Waiting for them to sufficiently cool before taking a bite of their deliciousness!

About


Do you like beets? Have you ever tried roasting fresh beets? They are DE-LI-CIOUS. Beets are good for you; sweet and tasty and fantastic. Last week I bought some fresh beets from our weekly farmers market. On Sunday I prepared them; roasting their garnet goodness in the oven for about 1 hour. I devoured them. My poor husband only got a few of the quartered tasty morsels. Thankfully my son wouldn't even try them. I was happy with that, although I tried to entice him to taste them, because it meant more beets for ME !! Gotta run, must go back to the farmers market today!!