Roasted Beet Salad with Blueberries & Mustard Dressing
This colorful roasted beet salad with blueberries and easy homemade Dijon mustard dressing is a delicious appetizer, side dish or light meal.
Sometimes less is more when it comes to making a salad.
This is one of those less-is-more salads with just a few main ingredients that can really hit the spot.
A quick and easy homemade Dijon mustard dressing is also included in this recipe.
About the Roasted Beets
The beets add in this salad add a light heartiness and taste wonderful with the mustard dressing.
Beets are so colorful and pretty in a salad especially when using both gold and red ones.
It’s so easy to roast them too.
Just add them to a foil tent with a little olive oil, salt and pepper and that’s it.
After the beets are cooked in the oven, they need to cool so that the skin can be removed by using a paper towel.
When rubbing the skin off the red beets you just have to be careful not to rub your nose or face…especially when going out in public.
And the paper towels with the red all over them look a little scary in the trash can.
But other than that, it’s a piece of cake to make these roasted beets.
Tips for Storing the Cooked Beets
- Cooked beets should last nicely in the refrigerator for 3 to 5 days.
- When storing cooked beets in the refrigerator it’s best to separate the gold from the red ones so the red beets don’t bleed red color on to the gold beets. Same goes when handling them too.
About Serving
Although the quantity for this recipe is more the size of a main dish, and this salad makes a beautiful side salad too.
Feel free to add more toppings to the salad like goat cheese, feta cheese, or even blue cheese.
The mixed greens, colored beets, and blueberries make a nice “canvas” to add even more toppings to.
The salad just gets prettier with more toppings and colors.
Ok, I’ve reached my time limit on how long I’m allowed to talk about beets.
Let’s check out the ingredients.
Roasted Beets – red and gold beets, olive oil, salt and pepper
Mustard Dressing – Dijon mustard, horseradish mustard, agave nectar, Worcestershire sauce, and olive oil
Salad – mixed greens, roasted beets, blueberries, mustard dressing, a pinch of salt and fresh ground pepper
HOW TO MAKE THIS RECIPE
A printable recipe with the measurements and instructions is located at the bottom of this post.
For the Roasted Beets:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Wash the beets and cut off the stems.
On a large piece of foil, add the red beets….
…and 1/2 of the total amount of olive oil…
…salt,
and pepper.
Pull all of the edges of the foil to the top of the beets, form a “tent” with the foil and seal the edges.
In another large piece of foil, add the gold beets and top with the remaining olive oil,
salt,
and pepper.
Form a tent over the beets with the foil.
Set both foil tents on a small cookie sheet or pizza pan and bake in a preheated oven (at 350 degrees F.) until the beets are tender (about 55 minutes; time may vary depending on the size of the beets).
Remove from the oven and let the beets cool.
When the beets are cool, starting with the gold beets, use a paper towel to rub off all of the skin.
When you’re done removing the skin on the gold beets, use a fresh paper towel to rub the skin off the red beets.
Then cut the ends off of the beets and cut each beet into wedges.
Set aside for a moment.
For the Mustard Dressing:
In a medium size bowl,
add all of the ingredients…Dijon mustard, horseradish mustard, agave nectar…
…olive oil…
…and Worcestershire sauce.
Then whisk together…
…until creamy.
Set aside for a moment.
For the Salad:
Dressing and Plating the Greens – In a large bowl, add the greens and about two thirds of the mustard dressing.
Using tongs, coat the greens with the mustard dressing.
Transfer the greens to serving plates.
Dressing and Plating the Beets – Add the remaining mustard dressing to a small bowl.
Starting with the gold beets, dip one wedge at a time to coat the wedges with dressing.
Set the beet wedges on the serving plates just to the outside of the mixed greens.
Add the red beet wedges one at a time to the remaining mustard dressing and coat each side.
Set the red beets on the serving plates.
Top with blueberries a pinch of salt, fresh ground pepper (to taste), and serve.
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Roasted Beet Salad with Blueberries & Dijon Mustard Dressing
Ingredients
For the Roasted Beets:
- 2 medium-size red beets
- 2 medium-size gold beets
- 4 drizzles olive oil
- 4 dashes sea salt
- 4 dashes ground black pepper
For the Mustard Dressing:
- 1/2 cup Dijon mustard
- 2 tablespoons horseradish mustard
- 1/2 cup agave nectar or honey can be used instead if preferred
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
For the Salad:
- 3 servings mixed greens
- Roasted beets
- 3/4 cup fresh blueberries
- Mustard dressing
- 3 pinches sea salt
- Fresh ground pepper to taste
Instructions
For the Roasted Beets:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- For the Red Beets - Wash the beets and cut off the stems. On a large piece of foil, add the red beets and 1/2 of the total amount of olive oil, salt and pepper.
- Pull all of the edges of the foil to the top of the beets, form a “tent” with the foil and seal the edges.
- For the Gold Beets - In another large piece of foil, add the gold beets and top with the remaining olive oil, salt and pepper. Form a tent with the foil and seal the edges.
- Cooking the Beets - On a small cookie sheet or pizza pan, set both foil tents. Bake in a preheated oven (at 350 degrees F.) until the beets are tender (about 55 minutes; time may vary depending on the size of the beets).
- Remove from the oven and let the beets cool.
- When the beets are cool, starting with the gold beets, use a paper towel to rub the skin off. Use a fresh paper towel to rub the skin off of the red beets. Cut the beets into wedges and set aside.
For the Mustard Dressing:
- In a medium size bowl, add all of the ingredients and whisk together.
For the Salad:
- Dressing and Plating the Greens - In a large bowl, add the greens and about two thirds of the mustard dressing. Using tongs, coat the greens with the mustard dressing. Transfer the greens to serving plates.
- Dressing and Plating the Beets - Add the remaining mustard dressing to a small bowl. Starting with the gold beets, dip one wedge at a time in the mustard dressing to coat the wedges with dressing.
- Set the beet wedges on the serving plates just to the outside of the mixed greens.
- Add the red beet wedges one at a time to the remaining mustard dressing and coat each side. Set the red beets on the serving plates.
- Top the salad with blueberries, a pinch of salt, fresh ground pepper and serve.
Notes
TIPS:
- Cooked beets should last nicely in the refrigerator for 3 to 5 days.
- When storing cooked beets in the refrigerator it's best to separate the gold from the red ones so the red beets don't bleed red color on to the gold beets. Same goes when handling them too.
This recipe was originally posted on July 30, 2014.
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1/2 cup agave and 1/2 cup mustard for 2 TB of olive oil? Something isn’t right.
Hi Michael, thank you so much for pointing this out. Update – I actually remade the recipe for the dressing and the amounts are correct. The dressing has a taste similar to a honey Dijon sauce only it has just a little bit if heat to it from the horseradish mustard. Thank you again!