Beet Salad With Pistachios and Feta Cheese
photo by ChefLee
- Ready In:
- 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 3 tablespoons orange juice
- 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 beets, medium, peeled, shredded
- 4 cups romaine lettuce
- 2 tablespoons pistachios
- 2 tablespoons feta cheese
directions
- In a small mixing bowl, whisk together orange juice, vinegar, honey and olive oil until well blended.
- Place beets through the shredding disc of a food processor, then toss with half the dressing mixture.
- Toss romaine lettuce with remaining dressing and divide among four salad plates.
- Top each plate with beets and sprinkle with pistachios and feta cheese.
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Reviews
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100 stars!!!!!! One of the top five best salads that I have ever eaten!! There are so many delicious flavors and textures in this salad, it is perfectly balanced!! I boiled some fresh beets at a simmer for about 40 minutes then the skins just slide right off. I let them cool while I was doing other things around the kitchen then I just chopped them manually instead of using the processor. The dressing for this is absolutely perfect, a hint of orange and just the right amount of oil to vinegar. It brings out the sweetness in the beet. Then you have just the right amount of salt coming from the feta and pistachios. I could go on and on about how delicious this was, thank you so much for posting!!!!
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Tweaks
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This was a great salad! Loved it! There were a few tweaks that I made: 1. Add half a lemon's juice to the dressing for more acidity. 2. Instead of shredding the beets, I roasted them for ~1 hr, and then marinated them in the dressing for a couple of hours. 3. I added fresh orange pieces to the salad. The result was a nice hearty salad! :)
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