All week long, I’ve been cooking up recipes that highlight the bright flavors of summer. Today’s meal is not only seasonal, it’s also beautiful! A raw-tomato and roasted-beet salad is dotted with feta cheese and fresh mint — the combination is sweet, sharp, and wonderfully refreshing. I used a mixture of red and yellow heirloom tomatoes to add even more vibrancy to this dish, but use any variety that’s available to you — and make this gorgeous plate tonight!
Sarah’s Tip of the Day:
Don’t toss those beet greens! Wash and cook them just as you would spinach, kale, or any leafy vegetable (better yet, combine a few different varieties for a brand-new side dish).
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SERVINGS: 4
INGREDIENTS
1 pound scrubbed small beets
2 pounds tomatoes, preferably heirloom
1 pint cherry tomatoes
1/4 cup crumbled feta
1/4 cup fresh cilantro leaves
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil Salt and pepper
COOK’S NOTE:
Good with poached chicken, grilled steak, burgers
DIRECTIONS
STEP 1
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Seal beets in a foil packet. Roast on a rimmed baking sheet until tender, 75 minutes. When cool, rub beets with a paper towel to remove skins; slice. Slice large tomatoes, and halve cherry tomatoes, then arrange with beets on a platter. Top with feta, cilantro, and olive oil; season with salt and pepper.
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Sarah Carey is the editor of Everyday Food magazine and her job is to come up with the best ways to make fast, delicious food at home. But she’s also a mom to two hungry kids, so the question “What’s for dinner?” is never far from her mind — or theirs, it seems! Her days can get crazy busy (whose don’t?), so these videos are all about her favorite fast, fresh meals — and the tricks she uses to make it all SO much easier.
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31 Comments
Looks fantastic. And congratulations on not getting any beet stains on your shirt.
Sarah, it looks so good.
Definitely going to make this!
It's so colorful and healthy! Thank you, Sarah*
Love you and your recipes but I draw the line at beets!;)
I remember buying beets once, I was gonna use it to make stamps or something.
Wow
actually, this went to the supreme court in the 1890s – tomatoes were ruled a veggie 🙂 learn something new every day!
that are treated as vegetables.
To get this out of the way, regardless of any Supreme Court ruling, a tomato is a fruit botanically speaking. You can google it to see the truth. Regarding this recipe, the tomato is a fruit, the beet is a vegetable. On the other hand the whole thing looks so delicious…who really cares?
Exactly, A tomato could be discovered by geneticists to be a fruit-vegetable-fungi hybrid I would still devour it, and beets, with an enthusiastic blind-eyed frenzy. After I do my intense rage-walk cardio workout and strength training I am going to daintily make this salad, stare at it for a few seconds to appreciate the visual pulchritude and then pounce with the combined fury of a feral wolf and a bestial shark.
soooo want to try an heirloom tomato… that salad is kickin'!!!!
It's food,it's good we eat it. YUM!
Thank you for saying it first.
I was just trying to impart a bit of fun history about the often debated topic. your body metabolizes tomatoes more similarly to that of other vegetables with very little caloric content and lots of important micro and phytonutrient content. It is not as similar to fruit, with higher caloric content and higher carbohydrate content. Both the USDA and any dietitian (which i am) will tell you they are considered a veggie for the purposes of meal planning. Whatever, just eat them and enjoy!
Looks so light and refreshing! Will try this week 🙂
Omg! That looks delish and easy breezy to make. Thanks Sara.
Ok, I didn't have much time to visually behold this salad as the hunger was too strong. It was awesome and satisfying, I forgot how sweet beets are. This was/is a great salad idea.
75 minutes in the oven? Mam, you pretty much cooked all the vitamins and enzimes outta those beautiful beets. Please do some research on them….
"I mean its a salad, you know what I'm sayin?" Ahha, that look was good.
Tomato is not a vegetable 🙂
lol, I don't think I would wear a white shirt when dealing with beets.
too much talking..
Whats mealie means?
HELLO, can i boiled beetroot??? i dont have an oven..
<3 the tomato slicing trick!!!
All your salad is yummy colorful. I loved to watch you when you are making your different vegetables salad you made my day completed
Love that, OK, pass it through the TV, I'm starving 😉
This salad is my favorite summer dish!!!
tumbs up for the cherry tomato trick
It looks good and I get the acidity in the tomato part but the tomato also has a mild flavor to it. A drizzle of balsamic I think would make a big difference, although to be fair I haven't exactly tried this recipe yet.
Thank you amazing salad so so yummy