![]() ![]() Squeeze about 1/4 tsp of avocado-lime cream on beet, then top with an additional drizzle of black tahini sauce. Squeeze about 1/4 tsp of black tahini sauce in spoon, then top with a beet cube. Alternatively, serve in small serving soup spoons.Butternut squash soup poured over roasted chicken, basmati rice, sautéed greens, super seeds, and chimichurri sauce. Insert toothpick into center of each beet cube. Roasted chicken, field greens, shaved Brussels sprouts, avocado bean dip, chimichurri sauce, pickled onions and super seeds (contains dairy) CHEFS SOUP BOWL. Squeeze about 1/4 tsp of avocado-lime cream on top of each beet cube then drizzle with black tahini sauce. To serve, drain excess marinade from beets and pat dry with a paper towel.Transfer to a squeeze bottle and set aside. In a small bowl, combine black tahini, salt, and garlic powder.In a food processor, combine avocado, cilantro, lime juice, and fresh ginger and process until mixture is very smooth and creamy. While beets marinate, prepare avocado cream.Add beets and refrigerate at least 1 hour. In a medium bowl, add lime juice, rice vinegar, sesame oil, and tamari and mix to combine.Reduce heat to a simmer and steam until beets are tender yet firm, about 10 to 15 minutes. Bring water to a boil, add beets, and cover pot. Place steamer basket and 1 inch filtered water in a medium pot.If you want to go from plant-curious to plant-focused…consider taking the easy 5 day email class: Introduction to Plant-Based Nutrition. As a plant-based advocate, she believes that eating more vegetables, fruits and grains is the way to go. LA Dunn is a plant-based advocate from the Bronx who loves to make food that looks good and tastes good. I love to make this one spring, summer and fall. If you are ready to add these mighty veggies to your plate, let’s do it!Ĭheck out the recipe below for Sweet Potato and Golden Beet salad. They both have incredible nutritional value. The good news is that you can’t lose with either one. I did wonder if one beet was better than the other. Red Beets or Golden Beets: You Can’t Lose CHEFS SOUP BOWL 16. BEET FALAFEL BOWL 16.25 Baked beet falafel, basmati rice, black beans and corn, charred broccoli, beet hummus, turmeric tahini, and pickled onions. You can sauteé them and eat them solo or add them to soup. Salmon poke´ (raw), field greens, spicy cold noodles, sesame avocado, yuzu vinaigrette, and pickled ginger. Research has shown that beets can lower blood pressure and are great for the heart, brain and kidneys.Īnd did you know that you can eat the greens at the top of the beet? Don’t cut them off and throw them away. Golden beets and the red ones offer powerful antioxidants and essential nutrients like B-vitamins, magnesium, manganese, iron, copper and potassium. When it comes to superpowers, they have the goods. All great additions to a plant-based plate. They come right out of the ground and are related to spinach, chard and quinoa. I did notice golden beets sitting right next to the collard greens but I ignored them!īeets are the nickname we give to them but they are officially called beetroots. I know that there are over 1000 vegetables curated for us to consume but for a long time, I was eating the same ones over and over. My standard list of acceptable vegetables included broccoli, snow peas, peppers and corn. Beets Are Packed With NutrientsĪ plant-based lifestyle meant revisiting vegetables that I had been ignoring. I guess I should thank those folks for offering up such a powerful little veggie even if the rest of the meal wasn’t so awesome. For some reason, a golden beet salad was often a first course. I used to have a job that required us to go to a lot of fancy galas. They were definitely not on our dining table growing up. I wish I knew when I began avoiding beets. There was a time when chickpeas and butternut squash were on that list. The list of veggies that I avoided was long. It didn’t help that they looked like dusty rocks in the produce section. They were pretty but golden beets did not inspire. Beets, both red and orange were on the no-go list along with asparagus and the Brussels sprout. Not even when I grew up and my palate had become what I considered sophisticated. Not when I had my first apartment and shopping was an olympic sport. Golden beets never made it to my grocery list. ![]()
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