Posts Tagged ‘beets’
Berry Beet Juice – A Healthy Blend of Vegetables and Fruit
Berry Beet Juice is a healthy blend of vegetables with a little sweetness from the fruit. No sugar or other sweeteners are needed. And you don’t need a juicer either! You can make healthy juices using a blender or food processor. The beets not only provide that beautiful redo color they are loaded with folate, manganese,…
Read MoreLayered Beet and Carrot Salad – Healthy as it is Beautiful
Layered Beet and Carrot Salad is a colorful salad that is as healthy as it is beautiful. The bright colors of the beets and carrots help provide powerful antioxidants for your body. Paired with the natural probiotics in the yogurt, you have a showstopper salad with plenty of health benefits. And it is pretty tasty…
Read MoreRoasted Beet and Orange Salad – A Healthy Dose of Vitamin C
Roasted Beet and Orange Salad is a bright and flavorful way to get a healthy dose of vitamin C to help your body combat everything from the common cold to cancer. Blood oranges are particularly delicious in this. Roasting beets make them sweeter naturally, and they pair nicely with fresh oranges. You can roast the…
Read MoreBeet Hummus – High In Nutrition, Fiber, and Protein
This easy organic Beet Hummus recipe whips up in 5 minutes and makes a lovely and healthy dip for vegetable sticks or chips or any other way you enjoy your hummus. The beets are high in fiber, vitamin C, potassium, and manganese, add to that some fiber and protein in the chickpeas plus healthy fat from the…
Read MoreRoasted Carrot and Beet Salad – Healthy Bright Colors
Roasted Carrot and Beet Salad is a simple, colorful, and flavorful salad that can be partially prepped ahead of time to save effort at dinner time. You can roast the carrots and beets specifically for this recipe, or cook up a double batch and serve roasted vegetables one night and save a portion to make…
Read MoreRoasted Beet and Kohlrabi Salad – An Earthy Cool-season Dish
Roasted Beet and Kohlrabi Salad makes an easy cool-season salad. Kohlrabi isn’t pretty and a little out of this world alien-looking, but it’s sure easy to love. Pale green or reddish, the little alien-shaped vegetable is delicious both raw and cooked; its flavor is suggestive of broccoli without the bite. The name is German for…
Read MoreApple, Carrot, Beet, and Swiss Chard Juice – Nutrient Loading
This Apple Carrot Beet Swiss Chard Juice will be an earthy deep red color. Believe it or not, there is a lot of sweetness from the apples, beets, and carrots. Also, a little bite from the ginger. Juicing is a quick way to get loads of nutrients into your body at once. Juicing is an excellent…
Read MoreCheddar Beet Risotto – Sweet and Creamy
This cheddar beet risotto dish is sweet and creamy. It uses the entire beet and is a nice pink color. The beet is the taproot portion of a beet plant, and also known as the garden beet, table beet, golden beet, or red beet. The Beet is one of several cultivated varieties of Beta vulgaris…
Read MoreBenefits of Beets – Elevated to Superfood Status
Because of the Benefits of Beets, this humble vegetable has been elevated to superfood status with good reason. This root vegetable is not only nutrient-dense, but it can also be incorporated into your meal plan in a vast variety of ways. True confessions: I hated beets as a child. Probably because the only time we…
Read MoreBeetroots and Beet Greens – 2 Powerful Allies for Health
Beetroots, or Beets, are one of nature’s most perfect food crops. Most people don’t know that the greens are also edible and are essentially Swiss Chard. Commonly, beets and beet greens are used in soups, salads, juicing, and for pickling. The roots can also be used as a natural food dye or fabric coloring agent.…
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