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Sautéed beets make a great side dish or an addition to a salad. These red beauties are seasoned with rosemary and lemon for a bright flavor that goes with almost anything. Try serving them along with a simple steamed salmon or something more extravagant like our fig and brie stuffed chicken.
One of my favorite beet side dishes is sautéed rosemary-lemon beets. They are also wonderful in a green salad with roasted beets and blue cheese or you could try my favorite fried goat cheese salad.
How to Sauté Beets:
Since I wanted large, hearty chunks of beets the best way to sauté them is to pre-cook them in boiling water first. After you boil them you can peel, slice, and sauté them in a hot skillet.
Leave the skin and the top of the stems on the beets while they cook in boiling water. It is much easier to manage the mess from the red beet juice if you leave the skin and stems in place.
By the way, save the leafy greens to make sautéed beet greens. Nothing goes to waste with beets.
When they finish boiling, drain and let them cool until you can handle them and slip the skin off. Here’s how to make easy work of it.
Hold a beet by the stem in a paper towel with the root tail upward. With another paper towel, pinch off the root-tail off and begin pushing the skin downward toward the stem.
When all the skin has been pushed down just give the stem a twist and woohoo! You have a nice skinless, shiny, beet. You may want to wear kitchen gloves to prevent the beet juice from staining your hands.
After you slice the beets, sauté them with garlic and herbs then toss them in lemon juice.
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Rosemary Sautéed Beets
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Ingredients
- 3 medium-sized beets
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil or olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 3 tablespoons fresh-squeezed lemon juice, about 1/2 of a medium lemon
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh Rosemary
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Wash beets, trim off green tops leaving about 1/4-inch intact, but do not cut off the long tail and do not peel the beets.
- Boil until tender but still slightly firm, about 20 to 30 minutes.
- Drain the water from the beets and run cold water over them. When cool enough to handle, slip off the skins, cut off the top and tail. Cut into 1-inch cubes or slice them 1/4-inch thick.
- In a skillet set over medium-high heat add the coconut oil and when it is hot add the beets and sauté for one or two minutes. Add the minced garlic and cook an additional 30 seconds until the garlic is fragrant.
- Remove from the heat and add the rosemary and lemon juice. Toss to combine, transfer to a serving dish and serve hot.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Living in SE Europe for 6 months and beets are definitely a part of the diet here (at least in people’s homes!). At home in the US I always roasted beets first. But when we rented a flat without an oven, I found this recipe for boiling them first. Many thanks!
FYI – I like to serve them over hummus. Yum!!
Oh, that sounds fantastic with hummus. Thanks for the comment.
I have made this three different times now. I enjoy it every time! Boiling them and adding spices lemon etc eally helps me to work this good vegetable into my diet 🙂
Thank you Jeremy for your comments! We are so happy to hear that you enjoyed this recipe enough to prepare it 3 times! It is a favorite of ours as well! 🙂
Dear Pat,
Your recipe looks delicious. Beetroot is said to be especially effective in lowering high blood pressure and cholesterol apart from many other health benefits. I love them roasted when making a weekend roast.
Thank you, beets are terrific roasted, and there is a lot of vitamins and good nutrition in beets.
I like to chew my food, so I’m not a big fan of juicing. Although people do some creative things with it. Anyway. love beets — particularly in a nice, simple preparation like this. Really nice stuff — thanks.
Thanks for your comments, John….I think beets are under-rated…when was the last time you saw them on the menu at a restaurant? I love them. 🙂