California Farm Glazed Summer Beetroot and Mandarin Dinner Salad

Name: How to cook California Farm Glazed Summer Beetroot and Mandarin Dinner Salad - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2 people, 2 big dinner salads
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Hobby Horseman

California Farm Glazed Summer Beetroot and Mandarin Dinner Salad

April-May is the best time to plant summer beets here, tender and ripe in July, they get woody after that. We plant Detroit Red, a traditional deep red round beet, and eat the tender tops in salads. Summer beets cook quicker and are milder than winterbeets, they glaze well and pair well with mandarins in summer dinner salads. The beet juice makes a special salad dressing. #GoldenApron23

Ingredient

Food ration :

2 people, 2 big dinner salads

Cooking time :

1 hour

small peeled red summer beets, diced and glazed

peeled mandarin oranges, parted and halved, save peels for glaze

2 stalks

beet top greens, chopped like parsley

1 stalk

Romaine lettuce

1/2

” slice of mild red onion, diced

1 Tbs

flat Italian parsley, chopped

2 Tbs

unsalted butter

2 Tbs

Brown sugar

2 Tbs

Balsamic vinegar

1 Tbs

Sunflower seeds

1 Tsp

sesame seeds

Pinch

Salt

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Trim tops and root from unpeeled whole beets, boil beets in salted water till soft, about 45 minutes, cool in cold water. Peel will rub right off, slice and dice beets the size of half a mandarin section.

* Step 2

Heat cast iron skillet, heat mandarin peels in Tbs of water to extract the oil, then remove peels. Add brown sugar in balsamic vinegar till syrupy, add beets and glaze, 10 minutes, they will release beet juice. Use beet juice for salad dressing, it tastes amazing.

* Step 3

Wash and chop romaine lettuce to bite size pieces, mix with chopped green beet tops and chopped parsley. Dice slice of mild red onion. Mix romaine, greens, mandarin halves, red onion. Pour glazed beets and their juice over the salad, mix, sprinkle sesame seeds and sunflower seeds on top, jenjoy.