Beets With Balsamic-Orange Dressing

Submitted by duonyte

"I recently made a duck recipe with a divine glaze, and was inspired to create this recipe. Beets are an under-appreciated vegetable. Roasting enhances their natural sweetness. This would be a nice accompaniment to roast chicken or pork."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 50mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 2 lbs beets, try to pick similarly sized ones
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1⁄4 cup port wine
• 1⁄3 cup orange juice
• 1⁄3 cup balsamic vinegar
• 1⁄2 teaspoon thyme
• 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard

directions

1. Line a roasting pan with aluminum foil. Place the scrubbed beets in the pan, cover with foil, and roast in a 400°F oven until they can be easily pierced, about 1 hour. (Or, you can wrap each beet in foil.).
2. While beets are roasting, mix together all remaining ingredients in a saucepan, bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for about 5 minutes. Set aside.
3. Peel and trim roasted beets. Grate on the large holes of a grater into a big bowl. Pour the warm dressing over the warm shredded beets - you may not need all the dressing.
4. Serve warm or at room temperature.
5. Note: I generally have around 1/3 cup dressing left. I add 1/2 teaspoons of minced garlic and use it to glaze pork chops or squash or sweet potatoes that I am roasting.

Reviews

[Linky]

This was delicious! I had 4 beets that weighed in at about 1 pound, but I made the whole amount of dressing. I confess - I used grape juice b/c I didn't want to open a bottle of port for 1/4 cup! Anyway - both DH and I loved it! Didn't grate, just sliced very thinly!

 

[Jostlori]

Delish! Loved the dressing, which we let reduce a little bit... and dried thyme, but next time definitely will use fresh. Served this alongside a grilled pork chop. Yum!

 

[Dienia B.]

Wow this is good .tart.would be good with any meat dish used honey mustard

 

[teresas]

The family really enjoyed this...I love beets but never made them fresh...always used canned...what a lovely "RED" experience this was. It took exactly 1 hour for the beets to get tender...I used fresh thyme and served it at room temperature. This paired well with recipe #459485...Thanks for posting it...:)

 

[Artandkitchen]

We enjoyed this salad very much and I would do it again.<br/>I boiled the sauce until it was reduced to half volume and we didn't have leftovers!<br/>I used fresh oranges, dried thyme (fresh only for decoration), dark balsamic vinegar and dijon moutarde with grains.<br/>My family was happy with this salda.<br/>I recommend to try this salad also to all those who usually doesn't like beets!<br/>Thanks a lot for this posting!