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Prep time
1 hour 20 minutes
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Cook time
1 hour 30 minutes
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Serves
6 to 8
Author Notes
A make-ahead late winter or early spring salad with marinated beets, beet greens, and a flavorful garlic confit vinaigrette. —Elizabeth Stark
Ingredients
- For the garlic confit
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1/2 cup
extra-virgin olive oil
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2
large heads garlic, bottoms cut off, broken into cloves, and peeled
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2
fresh bay leaves
- For the marinated beet salad
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8
medium beets with greens (about 2 bunches)
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1 pinch
sea salt, plus more to taste
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6
oil-poached garlic cloves (from the recipe above)
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2 tablespoons
raspberry wine vinegar
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1 tablespoon
garlic-infused extra-virgin olive oil (from the recipe above)
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1 teaspoon
grainy mustard
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1 teaspoon
soy sauce
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1/2 teaspoon
maple syrup
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1/4 teaspoon
smoked paprika
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1/4
teaspoon ground cayenne pepper (according to taste)
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3
green onions
Directions
- For the garlic confit
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Heat a small saucepan over medium heat. Add the oil, garlic cloves, and bay leaves. Edge the heat to medium-low—just enough heat that oil bubbles ever so gently. Cook until garlic is fragrant and cooked through, 30 to 40 minutes. Discard the bay leaves.
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Pour into a jar, cool, and seal. Use the garlic oil and poached cloves for cooking. Garlic will keep up to 4 weeks in the fridge.
- For the marinated beet salad
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Preheat oven to 350° F.
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Scrub the beets. Trim all but 1/4 inch of the greens and reserve. Set whole beets in a deep baking dish, add water to a 1/4-inch depth, sprinkle beets generously with sea salt, and cover tightly with foil. Roast beets for 40 to 50 minutes, or until fork tender. Run beets under cold water and peel off skins. Trim the tops and then slice beets into 1/2 inch-thick wedges.
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In a small bowl, use a fork to mash the garlic. Whisk in the raspberry wine vinegar, olive oil, mustard, soy, maple, and spices, along with a generous pinch of sea salt.
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In a large bowl, toss beets with vinaigrette. Cover and set in fridge to marinate—preferably overnight, but for at least an hour.
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Just before serving, chop 1 bunch beets greens and mince the green onions. Toss greens and green onions with the beets, adjust salt and acid levels, and serve. (Note: Things are going to get very pink—to preserve the green hue of the beet tops, leave a few out of the mix and tuck in or scatter around the salad when plating.)
Elizabeth Stark, along with her husband Brian Campbell, chronicles her passion for simple, fresh recipes on the award-wining food blog Brooklyn Supper.
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