Your beetroot recipes?
British beetroots are good for us - they're a 'super food', so I've been told. They contain betalins and are nutritious, even if they're not everyone's favourite vegetable.
So, as seen on The One Show, the recipe for, um, alcoholic beetroot cocktail is as follows:
Ingredients
1 small uncooked beetroot, peeled, cut into cubes
½ lime, juice only
25ml/1fl oz gold tequila
12ml/½fl oz orange liqueur
12ml/½fl oz dark chocolate liqueur
25ml/1fl oz beetroot juice
1 tsp sugar syrup (also known as 'gomme' syrup)
salt, for dipping
Method
1. Place the beetroot into a cocktail shaker and mash (muddle) with the end of a clean rolling pin.
2. Add the lime, tequila, orange liqueur, dark chocolate liqueur, beetroot juice and sugar syrup, top up with ice and shake well.
3. Wet the rim of a glass, then dip into a plate covered in salt to coat the rim.
4. Strain the cocktail into a glass and serve.
Also: Recipe for Charlie's beetroot smoothie recipe, (as seen on The One Show).
Put all ingredients in a blender, and blend for 20 seconds:
1 and a half chopped bananas
250ml apple juice
150 ml beetroot juice
2 teaspoons of honey
More beetroot recipes at BBC Food.
Is a beetroot revival a good thing? Do you have a favourite beetroot recipe? Please tell us!
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simple but tasty beetroot salad
Fine Jullienne or Grated Fresh beetroot - 2cups
Seasme seeds - toasted are best 2tbsp
Vinegarette dressing:
1 part Oil - 2tbsp
1 part Vinegar - 2tbsp
french grain mustard - 1/2 tsp
garlic if desireds
mix, chill, shake and serve
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There is no luxury like a bowl of freshly boiled, freshly sliced, chilled beetroot - left in the fridge to help yourself with your fingers!! Wonderful!!
Barry, Paignton
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my favourite beetroot salad recipe:
4-6 big cooked, peeled beetroot grated
1-2 garlic cloves crushed
1 handful of chopped parsley
1-2 oranges segmented and cut to pieces
juice of 1-2 oranges
couple of tbsp Greek yoghurt or sour cream
salt, pepper to taste
mixed and chilled for at least couple of hours
Bon appetite!
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Does anyone know if beetroot wine is available to buy . Found plenty of recipes, but havn't always got the time to make it.
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beetroot bread is a must for cheese sandwiches.
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Does anyone know if beetroot wine is available to buy. Found plenty of recipes, but havn't always got the time to make i.
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This is really simply and lovely for children. You simply grate raw beetroot into uncooked rice and cook them together. Of course this makes the rice pink and the vegtable invisible! I sometimes add a few cloves of garlic and a knob of butter.
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Great recipes but how do you make the smoothy? I can't find it.....
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Hi
I'm really pleased beetroot is so healthy, as it is my little girl Lucys favorite food at the moment. She has just had her 1st birthday and she loves eating beetroot and gets very cross when it has all gone. It makes great fingerfood (even though rather messy...)! But don't be surprised when it's nappy-changing-time the next day!!!
Tulip, Switzerland
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How much beetroot do you need to eat to lower blood pressure? and how often?
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Beetroot is really great.
Try Beetroot and marmite sandwiches really yummy!!
Some might cringe
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hi can anyone give me the recipe for beetroot smoothie thanks
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Did I hear that one should drink beetroot juice?
Is this the juice left in the pot after the beetroot has been boiled ?
If this is the case, is there any other
foods or liquids to be added to the beetroot juice before drinking?
J.S.
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Hello bryanqprfan, I've a colleague in The One Show office who may have the smoothie recipe. I'll ask him on Monday - and post it here if he's got it. Thank you for visiting The One Show blogs.
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Beetroot Wine
4lbs beet[ cut up]
1 gallon water
4 lbs Sugar
2 lemons[cut up]
6 cloves
Boil together until pulped .When bloodheat add 1oz of yeast .allow it to stand for a week then strain it . Bottle it in demi-john finely bottle when it has stopped fermenting . Happy Christmas.
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Would love to try the beetroot crisps, any one know the recipe, or where to get it from. janedow
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Not exactly a recipe, and I hate to give them credit, but the UK's largest supermarket (don't know if I can mention them ?) do a fantastic sweetfire baby beetroot.
Delicious with all fish, but especially mackerel.
Slice baby beets and mix with sour cream and chives.
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When my daughters were small, we lived on a narrowboat and had some land. We had a veg patch the size of Liechtenstein and one year we were rather over successful with the beetroot.
I started putting it in everything and discovered a way of getting small girls to eat veg. I discovered that if you put a lot of beetroot in a vegetable pie it turns the pastry pink. Very useful when little girls are going through the 'pink phase'!!
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A diced beetroot set in a raspberry jelly is great. If you make it in a loaf tim instead of a bowl, you can slice it and have it with salad
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Great idea but want to know how to make smoothie and crisps please. Also how much beetroot juice needed to make a difference. Hubby just been diagnosed with high blood pressure.
Lynda
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I am a real beetrootie - the smoothie got so many good comments on the show but can't find the recipie - looking at other comments seems I'm not alone - please can you let us in on the secret!!
Alfie-ella, Devon
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I thought, after watching this beetroot piece on yesterday's show that Adrian said the recipes would be on here. I'd really like the recipes for the smoothie and the beetroot chocolate cake!
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I have since found 51 beetroot recipes on the BBC Good Food website, including the Beetroot and Chocolate cake which is the first one.
I'm unable to put the link here but in a search for Beetroot Recipes (UK) it's the first one that comes up. Beetroot smoothie isn't on that site but I searched and found it on another one.
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Beetroot Smoothie
Have just searched the web and found this recipe on the Coffee and Vanilla website:
100g cooked and peeled beetroot
100g natural yoghurt
80ml apple juice
Blend
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can anyone tell me how to make beetroot crisps and how much beetroot do I need to eat or drink to reduce blood pressure?
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can anyone tell me how to make beetroot crisps and how much beetroot do I need to eat or drink to reduce blood pressure?
chocolate beetroot cake
8oz S.R. Flour
8oz soft marg
8oz caster sugar
4 eggs
1oz coco powder
1 large uncooked beetroot grated
bake the same as any other sponge cake
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Are the beetroot recipes going to be posted on the One web site?
I thought that Adrian said they would be available after the show but no?
I'm particularly interested in the smoothie, the cake and the crisps.
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The ULTIMATE sandwich filling is .....
Beetroot and horseradish sauce
Fantastic. do try it.
Barrie. Peterborough
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Hi, I'm from the farmers where Christine was filmed in our beetroot field. The recipe for our Chocolate Beetroot Cake is on the 'more beetroot recipes' link that Ryan gives in his original post (at the top). We didn't provide the smoothies or the crisps that featured on the show, but as I do have a smoothie recipe I'll add it to that website.
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Hi
The following web link may answer some of the questions posted
http://tinyurl.com/4cotu6
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As someone who suffers from really high blood pressure i was most intrested in Christines recommendation that beetroot can help "high blood pressure", however on further investigation on the world wide web it appears that for it to help one would have to drink or consume this amount per day DRINKING beetroot juice can help lower blood pressure, say boffins at St Bart’s Hospital in London.
But when did you last see a carton of beetroot juice on a supermarket shelf?
And how much of the stuff do you have to swallow to see a benefit?
The scientific small print reveals you will have to down half a litre of the stuff every day – almost a pint – to have an impact.
And as beets have so much fibre and so little juice, Sun nutritionist Amanda Ursell says you will need up to 5lbs of beetroot to get your daily dose.
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Re: Blood Pressure
Methods to combat high blood pressure should include healthy eating and beetroot are a good vegetable. I think it unreasonable to expect that you can effectively lower you blood pressure simply by drinking a lot of beetroot juice. More effective lifestyle changes such as reducing salt and increasing excercise as well as continuing with prescribed medicines will result in better results.
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