Roasted beets with herbs and feta cheese make a wonderful vegetable side dish for many meals. Try the recipe sometime when you encounter fresh beets at the market.
Herbed Beets With Feta |
Recipe Type: Sidedish
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Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 1 hour
Total time: 1 hour 20 mins
Serves: 4 – 6
This is a very elegant, and elegantly simple to craft, warm vegetable side dish to serve. The combination of herbs, beets, and feta cheese make a rich and complex palate of flavors.
Ingredients
- 6 beets (approx 1.5 lb)
- 1 1/2 tsp chopped fresh thyme
- 1 1/2 tsp chopped fresh chives
- 3 Tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 oz feta cheese, crumbled
- Ground black pepper to taste
Directions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- In a small bowl mix together the thyme, chives, and olive oil, reserve
- Peel beets under running water and wrap them individually in foil
- Roast beets in oven until tender when pierced with a fork, approx. 1 hour
- Remove beets from oven, unwrap, and quarter them
- Place beets in serving bowl and drizzle them with herb and oil mixture
- Add crumbled feta cheese and pepper
Notes
Beets come in a variety of colors, all of which have very similar flavors. Try mixing different colors for a more interesting presentation.
The beets can be roasted the night before and stored (in separate containers by color) if desired and reheated before adding herbed oil and feta cheese.
I particularly like this served with roasted lamb or medallions of beef tenderloin, but it pairs wonderfully with a variety of main dishes.