An American Patzaria - Creamy Beet Spread with Blue Cheese and Bacon
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Author Notes: As a child, I never had beets at home (my father claimed allergies -- a claim about which I remain highly skeptical), but I loved beets, and I always got them in the salad bar of my favorite restaurant. My childhood salads never varied -- they always had croutons, green onions, bacon bits and blue cheese dressing with the beets. As an adult, I encountered Patzaria, the Greek yogurt-based beet salad, and I decided to combine the flavors of my childhood salad bar with the Greek appetizer in this recipe. The result is salty, sweet, smoky and entirely addictive -- it makes a great and unexpected hors d'oeuvre. - Savour
Serves 3-4
- 2 medium beets
- 1 cup nonfat Greek style yogurt
- 1.5 ounces blue cheese, finely crumbled
- 2 pieces bacon
- 1 tablespoon chives, finely minced
- 3 pieces pita bread, lightly toasted
- Scrub the beets, drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with salt, enclose in a foil packet and roast at 350 degrees for 40 minutes to an hour, or until tender. Let cool and chop into a fine dice.
- Fry the bacon until crisp. Let cool, and chop finely.
- Combine the yogurt and the blue cheese in a small bowl and mash with a fork until the cheese in incorporated into the yogurt.
- Add the chopped beets, bacon and the chives. Mix thoroughly until the entire mixture is a rather alarming magenta hue (this actually helps convince 3 year old girls to eat it, believe it or not). The mixture may be covered and stored in the refrigerator right away, or eaten immediately.
- Serve with toasted pita triangles. Enjoy.
- This recipe is a Community Pick!
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Dip
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Open House Dish
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Beets
Tags: can be made ahead, Easy
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over 2 years ago NuM NuM
made this today and it was amazing. Freakishly scary looking, but so tasty!!! Here's a link to my blog if you want to see it.
http://lisasnumnum.blogspot...
over 2 years ago Olga of Mango & Tomato
growing up in Russia we made a similar dish: roasted and grated beets combined with mayonnaise (of course!), toasted walnuts, dried prunes and minced garlic.
over 2 years ago adamnsvetcooking
I love beets so this is something I will be making!
over 2 years ago testkitchenette
I cannot wait to try this in salad form mixed with quinoa.
about 3 years ago TheWimpyVegetarian
Major yum!! This sounds wonderful!
about 3 years ago lastnightsdinner
Wow - this sounds fabulous.
about 3 years ago ENunn
this looks very good!