Recipe: Mandarin Ginger Roasted Beets

Mandarin Ginger Roasted Beets

I grew up eating beets but they were usually pickled. One day after seeing them at the farmers' market regularly, I decided to buy some and make a beet dish. Here is the recipe for Mandarin Ginger Roasted Beets I created:

MANDARIN GINGER ROASTED BEETS
Recipe by Larimie Garcia for GrowlerEats.com

Ingredients:

3 Medium Beets, Washed, Peeled and Cut into quarters/sixths
½ Red Onion, Chopped into small pieces
1 Mandarin Orange (can substitute any type of orange or tangerine)
1 Tsp Ginger, Fresh is preffered. Chopped very fine.
1 Tsp Butter, Softened
½ Tsp Chile Powder
2 Tbsp. Brown Sugar
1-2 Tbsp. Olive Oil
Salt, to taste
Fresh Cracked Pepper, to taste

Directions:

1. Set Mandarin Orange aside.

2. Wash, peel, chop Beets into quarters/sixths depending on how large your beets are. Dice Onion into small pieces. Chop Fresh Ginger very fine. Mix with remaining ingredients in large bowl.

3. Add zest of 1/2 madarin orange. Now peel orange and squeeze all the juice out of the flesh and add remaining flesh to bowl. Mix in.

4. Put all ingredients in small, shallow roasting pan.

5. Cook at 350 for 40-60 min. Stirring and basting beets in juice every 10-15 minutes.

Served as vegetarian course or side dish with beef, duck or pork.