Roasted White Beet Salad with Apples

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Restaurant recipe (liberal use of olive oil)

 

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Roasted White Beet Salad with Gala Apples - Trotter

 

Recipe By : Charlie Trotter's Vegetables 1996

Serving Size : 4 Preparation Time :0:00

Categories : *Filed 2Try

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Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method

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1 large white beet

1 shallot -- peeled

6 tablespoons olive oil

1 large poblano chile pepper -- roasted

skinned and seeded

2 tablespoons water

Salt and pepper

1 tablespoon rice vinegar

20 dandelion greens

or mixed spring greens

1 small Gala apple -- julienned

1/4 cup pistachios -- toasted

and coarsely chopped

 

Roast beet at 375F for 2 to 2 1/2 hours, or until tender. Remove from oven

and let cool. Peel skin, removing brown outer portion. Cut peeled beet

into batons and set aside. Place shallot and 3 tablespoons of olive oil in

a small ovenproof pan and bake at 375F for 30 minutes, or until tender.

Remove from pan and reserve olive oil. Remove tough outer layer of the

shallot and cut into thin pieces. Coarsely chop half of the roasted chile

and place it in blender with reserved oil the shallots were cooked in and

the water. Puree until smooth, then strain. Season with salt and pepper and

store in refrigerator. Cut remaining chile into small dice and place in a

small bowl with vinegar. Slowly whisk in remaining 3 tablespoons olive oil

and season with salt and pepper. Lightly toss dandelion greens, shallot,

white beets and apple with vinaigrette and season with salt and pepper.

Arrange apple, beet and shallot mixture on top of greens. Place pistachios

around greens. Spoon chile puree on top of and around salad.

 

EACH: 362 cals, 25g fat, 56%cff.

 

 

Recipe from CHARLIE TROTTER'S VEGETABLES by Charlie Trotter, 1996, Ten

Speed Press.

 

acq: kitpath 4/99

 

 

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NOTES : Serves 4

Nutr. Assoc. : 2231 0 0 4532 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 4512 0

 

 

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