Beets are Good Food

I love root vegetables. Beets are my favorite and I could eat them everyday of the week. They are sweet and delicious.

Roasting beets and other root vegetables is an easy way to prepare vegetables. My kids love beets. It always makes me happy when I prepare beets and my kids yell, “Yippee Beets” as I bring them to the table. I want to share a recipe with you for a cold beet and cucumber salad. This is a yummy salad and the dressing is perfectly matched. The dressing for this salad is easy to make and compliments the tastes nicely. Garnish with some fresh parsley and kalamata olives and you are all set. Enjoy this light and lively dish.

The Beet: Beets are a good source of folacin and a source of Vitamin C and potassium. Red beets provide Vitamins A and C, calcium and iron, and add fiber to the diet.

Beet and Cucumber Salad with Tahini Dressing

Directions:
Scrub beets well and place in a low baking dish covered with aluminum foil
Bake at 400 degrees for 45 minutes or until tender
Allow beets to cool under foil for 15 minutes
Skin beets with a vegetable peeler
Cut beets into bite size pieces
Skin cucumbers with a vegetable peeler
Cut into bite size pieces
Mix together in bowl
Pour dressing over salad (add to taste)
Add pinch salt and pepper
Garnish with kalamata olives and flat leaf parsley

Ingredients:
4 medium sized organic beets
3 large organic cucumbers
Tahini Dressing (recipe) to taste…about a ¼ cup
¼ cup kalamata olives
1 table spoon flat leaf parsley
Pinch sea salt
Pinch black pepper

Tahini Dressing

Directions:
Mix ingredients in a food processor until smooth

Ingredients:
1/3 cup well-stirred tahini (Middle Eastern sesame paste)

1/3 cup water

1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

2 garlic cloves, chopped

3/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon sugar (optional)