What To Do With...Beets. Recipe Ideas from Facebook & Twitter

If you like the taste of beets you find yourself attracted to ordering them on restaurant menus, but chances are you rarely buy them at the grocery store. Beets tend to be a vegetable that people purchase only when they have a specific recipe in mind, like juice, salad, or borscht. But if you ever find yourself with a bunch of beets in your fridge with no direction, here are some ideas from health conscious people on Facebook & Twitter who gave suggestions on what to do with them before they go bad.

Salads:

Shredded raw beets have been a vital ingredient in my kale salads (@hillarylibby)

Shredded beet salad w/ granny smiths & garlic, olive oil & vin (@drsarahwarren)

Chopped beets along with almonds, salt and pepper, and field greens make an amazing salad (@SilkStyleEvents)

Arugula Salad with Beets & Mandarin Oranges (click for recipe from @vegansplendor)

Juice:

apples carrots radish and celery (Iris Sicam)

beets, carrots and pomegranate (@star_caroline)

carrots, apples and ginger (Andrea Robinson)

carrots and fresh spinach (Sandy Diller)

carrot ginger and parsley (Julianne Rock)

Dish:

Boil and peel, then slice and chill, add a dash of high quality balsamic. Serve with crostini and a creamy cheese (@WholeLifeTimes)

Roast them with garlic and leeks or green onion. Or, whip ups some cashew "cheese" and make "beet ravioli" (@JLgoesVegan)

Roasted with brussel sprouts in olive oil garlic salt and pepper then eat with brown rice (Charlotte Jones)

Roast them in the oven..use high heat(.cause you want them crunchy)..season with pepper,garlic,cumin,....also a little grapeseed oil....add potatoes... (Deborah Huss Humphries)

Oven roast them in olive oil, sea salt, cracked black pepper and cumin. (Kim-v Fisher-Isaacs)

Boil and top with a little margarine. A good beet doesn't need dressing up! (Diana Leigh Waldron)

Cook beets with pineapples on the stove and serve them warm. It will have this cream like sauce form from the natural sugars (Brian Mullins)

Grated and made into chutney to go with zucchini slice (Sharna-Lee Stone)

Dry them and use half as a crunchy topping for salads. You can powder the rest to use in smoothies, muffins,pancakes, and hot cereal. Also the powder can be used as a natural food dye in frosting. (Unita Cheeseman-Walburn)

Pickle them and use them in a sandwich (Karen Lee)