MaryLee's Healthy Food and Easy Cooking - Beetroot

Hello again,

I love summer especially when the fresh vegetables are in the garden just waiting to be picked. You just can not get the same flavour from frozen or canned as you can fresh. So take advantage of these vegetables while they are plentiful. However, I must admit if you can not get fresh then frozen is the next best thing to use. But buy fresh when you can especially in the summer when they are easy to find.

Beet or Beetroot as some people call them, is a vegetable that a lot of people don’t use. I am not sure if it is because they can be a bit messy or if they think they should be pickled but cooked beets are wonderful. Here is a great way to prepare them.

5 or 6 fresh beet roots washed, may have to lightly scrap them to get all the grit off
5 or 6 cloves garlic not peeled
¼ cup water

Place beets, garlics and water in oven proof bowl and cover with lid or tightly with foil.

Cook 1 to 1 ½ hrs in 350 F or 180 C oven.

Remove and let stand about 10 minutes.

Great dish to serve with fish or meat, now don’t be afraid to peel and eat the cooked garlic as they will have a wonderful nutty flavour.

Here is a good cooking tip - when using crockery or glass oven dishes, if the food dries out and loses its liquid while cooking do not add cool or cold water to the hot dish as it will crack or break. If you have to add any extra liquid make sure you boil it so it is hot when adding to the hot dish and do so very carefully.