Tag: beets

Smoky Golden Beet Vegan Lox

Smoky Golden Beet Vegan Lox

There’s something fishy going on with this beet recipe… but in a good way! This recipe transforms golden beets into a silky vegan lox. Leave the salmon in the streams, all we need are a few beets! Perfect for bagels, this lox recipe is silky, 

Easy Baked Beets (Herb Roasted Beets)

Easy Baked Beets (Herb Roasted Beets)

If you’ve got a bunch of beets and need a great, simple recipe, these vegan baked beets are perfect. They’re soft and sweet in the middle and crisp on the outside. Flavored with salt, pepper, and herbs, they’re also incredibly easy and versatile. Sometimes I’ll 

Avocado, Persimmon and Beet Tartare

Avocado, Persimmon and Beet Tartare

While I love vegan cheese and elaborately baked pastries, I also really enjoy dishes of simply prepared vegetables. This dish is just that, albeit with a crisp and colorful presentation. This vegan beet tartare is composed of three layers: first, a rich purple beet layer, 

Wood Sorrel, Jicama, and Beet Slaw

Wood Sorrel, Jicama, and Beet Slaw

Bright, fresh, colorful, and lemony, this wood sorrel, jicama, and beet slaw is so deliciously refreshing, it’s cooling and invigorating, even on the warmest summer days. The lemony dressing and wood sorrel offset the more earthy flavors in the beets, and the jicama adds it’s 

Easy Minestrone Soup with Beets

Easy Minestrone Soup with Beets

You don’t need a lot to achieve a hearty, rich broth- this one is accomplished by cooking beans with tomatoes and beets. Most of the heavy lifting is done by the beans, which create a thick and savory broth as they cook. This easy minestrone 

Bouquet of Roses Beet & Radish Salad Pizza

Bouquet of Roses Beet & Radish Salad Pizza

Salty, pickled, sweet, smooth, and rich folded in an elegant bouquet of “rose” petals brings to life a winter-vegetable version of salad pizza. The hearty buckwheat crust supports a creamy, smooth, garlicky spinach pesto, sweet caramelized onions, spicy, salted radishes, crisp radish sprouts, simply pickled 

Vegan Meatballs (Beetballs) – Seitan and Beet Meatballs

Vegan Meatballs (Beetballs) – Seitan and Beet Meatballs

I grew up eating spaghetti with tomato sauce, but (since I didn’t eat meat) the concept of meatballs was foreign to me. It was never something I knew, so it was never something I missed. Recently, however, for some reason I don’t quite understand I got it in my head to make a vegan meatball recipe. I decided to use beets in this recipe, primarily because of their beautiful color, but also I love their soft, sweet flavor. I didn’t try to make this taste like meat (again, I’m not really sure what meatballs taste like), but I wanted them to have the following qualities-
Flavorful
Chewy
Filling
Beautiful Color