I discovered beetroot 3 or 4 years ago. For some strange reason I use to confuse it with rhubarb (don't ask), which I dislike. I use it in my main meal and only started eating it on it's own recently. I did this because I kept leaving to go out of date and I'd end up throwing most of it away.

I've always suffered with dark circles under my eyes. Dark circles are usually due to poor blood circulation. Since eating beetroot I've noticed the dark circles are clearing up and my general sense of well being has improved.
On the minus side my bladder is noticably weaker since I've gone on the beetroot plan.

What has beetroot done for you lately?

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like the crisps. I used to buy mixed vegetable crisps but the parsnips were not nice.

Now I buy just beetroot crisps

Beetroot is the finest food known to man. If I had to eat only one food for the rest of my life, I would choose beetroot (and cheese).

I hate beetroot with a passion. Knowing this, a friend who was happily chomping on it threw some of the slimy pickled kind at my mouth and I gagged.

If making a salad I will often add some pickled beetroot to add interest.

Sometimes buy it raw and boil it for a couple of hours, very nice.

Though bought some supposedly pre-cooked the other day but it seemed like it had only been blanched as it was so hard. So boiled that up for a long time.

Mmmm, feel like a beetroot sandwich now.

I dont like or hate beetroot. For me i just cant taste anything.

People that love it, what does it actually taste of for you? How would you eat it?

It tastes of beetroot

I have it in salads.
It goes lovely with mackeral.
I've made a beetroot and chocolate cake which other people like (I can't eat chocolate )
Beetroot risotto.
Beetroot and Phili cheese on toast is nice.

Apparently its good for lowering blood pressure and if you eat too much of it it turns your wee red

HFW is a huge beetroot fan too.

http://www.rivercottage.net/recipes/tags/beetroot/

I like it straight from the garden, roasted unskinned in olive oil & sea salt.

I like beetroot.............I usually have it with a salad or with a tin of mackerell

I sometimes get the cooked ones that usually come in fours in a vacuum pack but I tend to have a jar of them in along with jars of gherkins, pickled onions, red cabbage, piccilil.............if you're a bit stuck and can't be bothered going to the shops you can make make up a plateful of varied pickled/jarred veg with a tin of corned beef or fish

I love beetroot mixed with tuna and mayonnaise. I always buy cooked beetroot.

Never used to like it but that's because i'd only tried the pickled beetroot. It was far too earthy.

Recently though i've been buying the vacpack fresh stuff and it's nice to but in to a salad (a hearty one with cous cous or bulgar wheat etc).

I still tend to dress it in balsamic vinegar. It just works really well together.

Love grated beetroot in low fat creme fraiche (sp?) with horseradish added to taste. Despite being veggie it is supposedly good with mackerel.

Love beetroot curry too!

It took me years to like it as I despised it as a child - now 54, I have adored it for a long time.

mmmm I love beetroot too, pickled beetroot on a ham or cheese sandwich and the vacuum packed beetroots chopped and roasted.

My favourite beetroot reciepe is small chunks of beetroot and carrot roasted and added to a grain salad of wheatberries, giant cous cous, chickpeas, puy lentils and red onion with a balsamic vinegar dressing (I usually use a ready made salad dressing as someone else said beetroot and balsamic is lovely) topped with feta or goats cheese, yum

I have loved beetroot since I first tasted it as an infant
mmmmmmmm I could eat it by the jar full ##
I can/ could eat a jar full every day ~in minutes

I love beetroot with many things eg:-with mash and stew etc
but I VERY OFTEN like

toast topped with a thick slice of cheese
THEN add houmous
tomatoes ,
and topped with lots of beetroot
and lots of pepper mmmmmmmm~

Lately Morrison's have a brand new product
it is like A Houmous made with Beetroot
and I have already eaten 4 tubs of this yummy pink product

A real, tasty, healthy and refreshing salad:-

Grate peeled, RAW beetroot into a bowl. Add crushed garlic and lemon juice (oil too if liked). Stir. Cover and chill for about an hour. Simply delish!

I make beetroot wine, boy is it good......

If anyone wants the recipe let me know.

Cheese, beetroot and thousand islands dressing sandwich, a marriage made in heaven!

try making your own.


i did some parsnip ones the other day. cut a parsnip very thin slices, and shallow fried (in the absence of a proper chip pan. came out fine. I am sure beetroot would work OK too. They are a lot dearer than potato crisps to buy.

pasrsnip seems drier than potato. I suspect raw beetroot is, as well.so it is easier to fry.

They are expensive compared to potato crisps. I like parsnip chips, but when they are in crisp form, they seem too hard and dry. Which is why I prefer beetroot

My family have always had beetroot in a jar on the dinner table along with pickled onions but I've never tried it. I thought it was just something my family did but I've met so many others in Glasgow that do that too!

Went in Morrissons recently and they sell three types of beetroot now, the usual purple stuff, golden beetroot (yellow flesh) and candy beetroot (red and white flesh).

How do the golden and white ones taste? Same?

It's nice on a sandwich with corned beef.

Not tried them yet, might do though as less mess and stain risk when grating.