Using Roasted Beets (continued)

Recipe #3: Beet Appetizer

(I first had this salad at the 2007 UBC Food Nutrition & Health community dinner, and I've been making it myself ever since)

Recipe makes 4 servings.

Ingredients:

2-4 Roast beets (1 small beet or ½ large beet per person)

120mL or ½ cup soft goat cheese

1 cup Pecans

1-2Tbsp brown sugar

Directions:

Roast Beets (as above)

Caramelize Pecans

1. Over low-medium heat, add pecans to pan
2. Sprinkle with brown sugar, watching pan carefully
3. Once sugar starts to melt, slowly stir pecans until sugar melted and pecans are caramelized looking and toasted

Construct Salad (for each individual serving plates)

1. Arrange 1 sliced beet on one side of plate
2. Crumble or break up 2Tbsp of soft goat cheese in centre of plate
3. Sprinkle ¼ cup caramelized pecans on the other side of plate and serve