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    Home » Blog » Whole Food Recipes » Easy Salad Recipes

    April 20, 2017 | By Jami

    Roasted Beet Salad With Goat Cheese Recipe

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    This roasted beet salad with goat cheese and walnuts recipe, drizzled with orange vinaigrette and made with your freezer roasted beets will win over everyone - even non-beet lovers! Make sure to check out more Quick Healthy Recipes!

    Roasted beet salad with goat cheese and walnuts

    Brian and I have a favorite restaurant that we used to go to when we were dating and first married. When we moved back home from the big city, it was one of the first restaurants we visited. Lucky for us it's still in business all these years later.

    It's an Italian restaurant and I always get the same thing (sorry, I know that sounds kinda sad, but we don't go often enough that I want to miss out on my favorite...), the "Four Seasons" pizza. I noticed they did have a new salad with beets that hadn't been on the menu all those years ago, and since I'm about the only one who likes beets in our house it was my chance to get my beet fix.

    Who knew beets, goat cheese, and orange vinaigrette would be so good? Now I have two things to always order.

    The only problems was this salad was too good to have only once or twice a year. I had to figure out how to replicate it at home. Since I'm not the "I can tell what's in a dish just by tasting" kind of person, I was lucky this recipe was full of simple ingredients.

    Roasted Beet Salad with Goat Cheese

    Roasted beet salad with goat cheese and walnuts-lettuce

    Let's start layering the good stuff on individual salad plates or a large platter.

    Start with a bed of lettuce. Bonus points if it's homegrown. Extra bonus points if a prominent leaf has a nice hole in it left from a bug.

    Roasted beet salad with goat cheese and walnuts-adding onions

    Add some thinly sliced onion- sweet is best, but I take whatever I can get in the onion department (did you hear that mom? I love onions now, even though I spent hours picking them out of dishes when I was younger…).

    Whew, I'm so glad you can see the leaf with the bug hole better now. (Can you spot it? Pretend it's "I Spy.")

    Roasted beet salad with goat cheese-adding beets

    Add some roasted beets cut into pieces (you can thaw them by submerging the bag under warm water if using frozen, roasted beets).

    This tutorial will show you how to prepare and roast beets in case you don't know (like I didn't) AND it will show you how you can preserve those beets by simply freezing them.

    Yep, and they taste just as good after months in your freezer as they do the day you roast them!

    Roasted beet salad-adding goat cheese and walnuts

    Add some crumbled goat cheese and a handful of chopped walnuts, pecans, or other nut you'd enjoy. I've also used sunflower seeds, too, and have even left nuts or seeds out entirely - it's your choice.

    Arrrgh. Why, oh why, didn't I see that dumb hole before taking the pictures?

    Roasted beet salad with goat cheese and walnuts-pouring dressing

    Finish the roasted beet salad with a homemade orange vinaigrette made by adding some orange juice and orange rind (if you have it) to a basic vinaigrette (and since this recipe already shows 4 ways to change up this dressing, you'll now have 5!).

    Though it's perfectly okay to eat this with a basic vinaigrette when you don't have any orange around - I've found using balsamic in the vinaigrette is particularly good.

    Roasted beet and goat cheese salad

    Oh, and this is the salad that my guest who didn't like beets actually liked. Give it a try and you may find yourself on the beet-lovers side of the fence, too.

    Me? I ate the salad in these pictures for lunch all by myself.

    Roasted beet salad with goat cheese and walnuts-pouring dressing
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    Roasted Beet Salad With Goat Cheese (Uses Frozen Roasted Beets)

    Roasted Beet Salad with goat cheese and walnuts, drizzled with orange vinaigrette and made with the roasted beets you've preserved in the freezer is so good it will win over even non-beet lovers!
    Prep Time10 minutes mins
    Total Time10 minutes mins
    Course: Salads
    Cuisine: American
    Yield: 4 -6 servings
    Author: Jami Boys

    Ingredients

    Salad:

    • 4-6 cups chopped lettuce
    • 1/2 cup thinly sliced onions preferably sweet
    • 2-3 medium beets - peeled roasted and cut into chunks (or use your freezer beets)
    • 1/2 cup crumbled goat cheese*
    • 1/3 cup chopped walnuts or pecans

    Dressing:

    • 1/4 cup orange juice
    • 2 tablespoons apple cider or rice vinegar
    • 2 teaspoon orange zest
    • 2 tablespoon Dijon mustard
    • 1 teaspoon black pepper
    • 1/2 teaspoon salt
    • 3/4 cup olive oil

    Instructions

    • Layer salad ingredients on individual plates or large platter in the order listed.
    • TIP: if using roasted beets from the freezer, you can thaw them quickly by submerging the baggie under warm water.
    • Combine dressing ingredients in a mason jar or large measuring cup and shake or whisk until the ingredients are fully combined.
    • Drizzle over salad ingredients and serve immediately.

    Notes

    *You can use feta cheese as a substitute if desired.

    Nutrition

    Serving: 1-1/2 cup | Calories: 351kcal | Carbohydrates: 11.3g | Protein: 11.2g | Fat: 30.7g | Saturated Fat: 8.7g | Cholesterol: 40mg | Sodium: 695mg | Fiber: 2.4g | Sugar: 6g
    Did you make this recipe?Mention @anoregoncottage or tag #anoregoncottage!

    Other salad recipes you may like:

    • Classic Caesar Salad Dressing Recipe (+ Super Easy, Way Delicious Homemade Croutons)
    • Spicy Asian Slaw: A Quick & Easy Salad
    • Orange Almond Salad with Orange-Balsamic Vinaigrette
    • Chipotle Spice Rubbed Grilled Chicken Salad with Guacamole, Corn & Black Beans

    About Jami

    Since 2009 Jami Boys has been helping readers live a simple homemade life through whole food recipes, doable gardening, and easy DIY projects on An Oregon Cottage. From baking bread, to creating a floor from paper, to growing and preserving food, Jami shares the easiest ways to get things done. She's been featured in Cottages and Bungalows, Old House Journal, and First for Women magazines as well as numerous sites like Good Housekeeping, Huffington Post, and Apartment Therapy.

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    1. Nancy says

      June 30, 2022 at 9:27 pm

      Thanks for the goat cheese substitute recommendation.... feta!. (I'm one of those people who taste the barnyard whenever I try goat cheese....sure wish I could find a variety that didn't have that effect for me!)

      Reply
      • Jami says

        July 01, 2022 at 10:23 am

        Oh, good - it does work perfectly here, too!

        Reply
    2. John says

      June 30, 2022 at 4:44 am

      Beets are one of my favorite vegetables, but have never tried them roasted. Can't wait for this years crop so I can give it a try.
      Thanks

      Reply
      • Jami says

        June 30, 2022 at 9:17 am

        Pretty sure you will love how easy and flavorful they are, John!

        Reply
    3. Lisa from Iroquois says

      December 02, 2013 at 1:49 pm

      I like to roast my beets first thing in the morning. Wrap em in tin foil and nestle in the ashes/coal at the edge of the wood stove before it really gets going.

      Reply
    4. Cheryl B. says

      August 21, 2010 at 12:47 am

      I am not that fond of beets, but my neighbor made this for us on July 4th, she found a recipe on allrecipes.com, substituted feta cheese and I think it was absolutely delicious.

      Reply
    5. Jami @ An Oregon Cottage says

      August 19, 2010 at 6:45 pm

      Oh I didn't take it any other way, Heather! And I completely agree and I think the people who are hesitant about some veggies would agree, too (my Dad is one of them!).

      PS- I SO remember those piles of canned spinach we would get on our hot lunch plates at school- uck. I didn't know anyone who ate it...

      Reply
    6. Heather@myeverydaygraces says

      August 19, 2010 at 2:55 pm

      not my post... my comment:)

      Reply
    7. Heather@myeverydaygraces says

      August 19, 2010 at 2:55 pm

      Jami, Looks and sounds delicious!

      And I was thinking about my post from yesterday... it is hard to "read" people on the computer, but it was meant to come across lighthearted and fun (hope I didn't upset anyone).

      Anyhoo, I did mean what I said about converting them... I can see how you did it with this salad!

      Reply

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