Roasted Beets With Balsamic Glaze Recipe

Serious Salads

When you want your vegetables to be more than just a side dish.

Jennifer Segal
Roasted Beets With Balsamic Glaze Recipe
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  • Yield:serves 4
  • Active time:15 minutes
  • Total time:45 minutes
  • Rated: 5.0
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Serious Salads: Roasted Beets with Balsamic Glaze

These beets are oven-roasted, which intensifies their natural sweetness, and then tossed in a tart and syrupy balsamic reduction. You can serve them as a side dish, but more often than not I just keep them in the fridge for snacking and tossing over salads. The best part is that they're good for you! Beets are a nutritional powerhouse—they cleanse the body, are chock-full of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, and are a great source of energy.

About the author: Jennifer Segal is the chef behind the popular food blog, Once Upon a Chef.

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Ingredients

  • 6 medium beets (2 bunches, or about 3-1/2 pounds)
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  • 1/3 cup inexpensive balsamic vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon maple syrup

Directions

  1. 1.

    Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil. Remove the leafy stems and roots of the beets and peel each one with a vegetable peeler. Cut the beets in 1 1/2-inch chunks.

  2. 2.

    Place the cut beets on the prepared baking sheet and toss with the olive oil and salt. Roast for until the beets are tender when pierced with a thin-bladed knife, 35 to 40 minutes, tossing once with a spatula midway through.

  3. 3.

    Meanwhile, combine the vinegar and maple syrup in a small skillet. Cook over medium heat until the liquid is reduced by about half (if shoul lightly coat the back of a metal spoon). Pay close attention and be sure not to over-reduce it; it goes from sweet and syrupy to burnt and hard very quickly.

  4. 4.

    Toss the glaze with the roasted beets and chill until ready to serve.

Jennifer Segal
Jennifer Segal

Jennifer Segal is the chef and photographer behind Once Upon a Chef, a family-friendly food blog featuring easy and elegant recipes with step-by-step photos. Once upon a time, she went to culinary school, cooked in a fancy French restaurant and was a personal chef. Nowadays, she devotes her time to her family, her blog, writing for HuffingtonPost Kitchen Daily and a regular salads column on Serious Eats. Her recipes have also appeared on Saveur.com, Yummly.com, thenest.com and Metrocurean.com. Jennifer passionately believes that cooking at home should be relaxing and fun. Her recipes are simple, even when they’re gourmet. She lives in the Washington, DC area with her husband, two kids and crazy dog, Miles.

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