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This easy oven roasted golden beet recipe is made even more delicious marinated in a light white wine vinegar and olive oil dressing. Roasted yellow beets are one of my all time favorite side dishes.
Golden beets are also called yellow beets or orange beets.
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Roasted Golden Beets Are Easy To Cook
It takes a long time for golden beets to cook in the oven (~ 1 hour), but hands on prep time is minimal - around 15 minutes.
Roasted golden beets are easy to make and taste like healthy candy. The yellow beets don't need the white wine vinegar and oil marinade necessarily but it does make them richer and sweeter in my opinion.
Having said that, roasted yellow beets are mild, sweet, vibrant, and tangy with just a light dressing of olive oil, salt, and pepper if you're not feeling the vinegar.
Substitutions and Variations on Easy Roasted Golden Beets
Vinegar generally brings out yellow beets natural sweetness. Don't like vinegar? Cool - leave it off of your roasted beets and just toss them with olive oil, salt, and pepper. Still delicious, just not as tangy as with the vinegar.
Use red or yellow golden beets - this recipe is versatile! Use yellow / golden beets if you don't want to stain your hands or cutting board. Yellow beets do not bleed like red beets (which stain everything).
But even more importantly, yellow beets generally taste less earthy and sweeter than red beets. Having said that, any beet color or variety will work with this roasted beet recipe.
Don't have fresh herbs? Skip the step or add a pinch or two of your favorite dried herbs to roasted yellow beats.
The Difference Between Boiled and Roasted Golden Beets
Beets can also be boiled for approximately the same time if you don't want to use your oven. Make sure to check the beets after the 30 minute mark to see if they are tender (the fork should pierce through the beet easily).
Lastly, when boiling beets, make sure there is enough water in the pot to cover the beets. The cooking water tends to evaporate, especially if the pot is not covered.
Beets baked or roasted in the oven in foil have a more complex, deeper, and sweeter taste, because the flavor is concentrated into the beet as it cooks.
Conversely, beets boiled in water leach out some of their flavor (and nutrients) into the cooking water.
How To Easily Peel Roasted Golden Beets
First off, cooked beet skin can be eaten. Younger beet skin is thinner and not as bitter as older, more fibrous beet skin. Having said that, just because you can eat it, doesn't mean you should or have to eat it!
To easily peel cooked beets: run cooled roasted golden beets under a small stream of running water and remove the skin with your hands quickly instead of using a peeler.
Fresh beets are easier to "peel with your hands". Use a small knife to peel older beet skin.
Easy Oven Roasted Golden Beets Recipe FAQ:
Do you have to peel beets before roasting?
Nope! As a matter of fact, it's generally easier to peel them after they are cooked whole. Give them a quick rinse of excess dirt before roasting and then peel cooled beets under running water.
Can you eat the skin of golden beets?
The short answer is yes. The long answer is you probably don't want to unless it's a very young beet with tender thin skin. Older beets can have a thick, fibrous, and bitter skin.
How long does it take to roast beets at 425F?
It generally takes about an hour for medium sized beets to cook to fork tender in the oven. Smaller beets should be checked ~ 40 minutes and larger beets at~ 75 minutes.
Things In My Kitchen:
- Benriner Wide-Body Large Mandolineto slice the onions thin.
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Serve this delicious beet recipe with a main dish that would compliment the taste:
The vinegar in the sweet beets recipe makes this dish feel light. I would pair it with a heavier or more flavorful recipe to give it balance.
- Cannellini Beans with Kale Pesto
- Indian Curry Chicken and Rice
- Classic French Tarragon Chicken
- Easy Kitcheree (Kitchari Or Mung Beans)
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This easy oven roasted golden beet recipe is made even more delicious with a white wine vinegar and olive oil dressing. It is one of my all time favorite side dishes.
- Author: beckie
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Yield: 6 1x
- Category: Side Dish
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: International
- Diet: Vegetarian
Ingredients
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Ingredient List:
- 3 medium sized golden beets, scrubbed, shoot & root trimmed
- 1 cup (~ ½ small) red onion, sliced thin
Ingredient List Vinaigrette:
- ⅓ cup white wine vinegar
- 3 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- ¼ tsp salt
- pinch black pepper
- ~ 1 tablespoon fresh tarragon or parsley, chopped - optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425F.
- Wrap each beet in it's own aluminum foil packet (making sure that it's tightly closed) and place on a lined baking sheet (for easy clean up in case foil leaks).
- Cook ~ 1 hour or until fork pierces softly through the beet. Be careful opening up the aluminum packets to avoid getting a steam burn.
- Cool golden beets, remove skin, and cut each beet into wedges.
- Make the vinaigrette: Combine all vinaigrette ingredients in a jar with a lid and shake vigorously. Add salt and pepper to taste
- Combine beets with sliced onions and toss with the vinaigrette. Add salt to taste. Happy delicious beet eating! Beckie
Notes
- Beets can also be boiled for approximately the same time. Make sure to check after the 30 minute mark to see if they are tender and ready.
- Run beets under water to cool down and remove the skin with your hands quickly instead of using a peeler.
- Don't have fresh herbs? Skip the step or add a pinch or two of your favorite dried herbs.
If you like this dish, you may also like these beet recipes:
- Classic Vegetarian Borscht (Beet Soup)
- Roasted Beets with Orange Balsamic Dressing
- Blood Orange and Beet Salad
- Roasted Beet and Pecan Salad
