Beets are a very healthy and dietary product. I offer an interesting option for preparing beets. Baked beets “Aromatic” turn out to be very piquant, aromatic, and unusual. Such beets can serve as an excellent side dish, good as an independent dish during Lent, and when cold they are an excellent appetizer or salad. In addition, this is not a high-calorie dish at all, but at the same time tasty and piquant.
The photo shows the necessary products. You can use any spices to prepare aromatic baked beets according to your taste.
First, let's prepare the marinade. To do this, mix soy sauce, oil, vinegar, honey, spices, and salt.
We put cherries in the marinade; if they come from freezing, like mine, you don’t need to defrost them, just let them thaw slightly. Mash the berries in the marinade. If you like it spicy, add ground hot pepper.
Peel the beets and carrots. Cut the beets into slices, carrots into cubes.
Add the beets with the marinade, stir, let stand for a while while we prepare the baking dish and turn on the oven.
Turn on the oven to preheat to 200 degrees. Prepare a baking dish. Place the beets in the mold along with the marinade.
Place carrot sticks and garlic on top (I cut it in half).
Cover the pan thoroughly with foil on all sides (shiny side inward). And put in a preheated oven for 1-1.5 hours. The time depends on what you want to get: very soft beet slices or a little crispy. Delicious either way!
That’s it, the baked “Fragrant” beets are ready, you can sprinkle with fresh herbs if desired. When warm, this is an excellent side dish, with a piece of chicken breast- a wonderful light and at the same time satisfying and healthy dinner.
When served cold, it makes an excellent salad or appetizer.
Very tasty, spicy, aromatic.
Baking is the most natural and natural way of preparing any food, allowing you to preserve the maximum amount of nutrients in them. After all, everyone knows that cooking destroys almost all vitamins.
Baked beets in the oven, unlike boiled ones, turn out much sweeter, tastier, richer and more aromatic. You can make a lot of things from it various dishes, which include regular beets. Let's find out recipes for beets baked in the oven.
Beetroot recipe in the oven
Ingredients:
- beets – 1 pc.
Preparation
Let's figure out how to bake beets in the oven. Wash the beets thoroughly with a brush to remove soil and dirt and wrap them well in foil. Then we put the vegetable on the grill and put it in the heated oven to bake. We cook the beets for about an hour and a half, and then turn off the stove and let the root vegetable cool right in it. Then carefully remove the vegetable from the foil, peel and cut into small slices. Serve the baked beets on a plate, drizzle with a little butter and sprinkle with chopped green onions if desired.
Well, we’ve looked at how to properly bake beets in the oven, and now let’s find out what dishes can be prepared from this vegetable.
Salad with baked beets
Ingredients:
- goat cheese – 5 teaspoons;
- beets – 1 pc.;
- pine nuts – 2 tbsp. spoons;
- olive oil – 1 tbsp. spoon;
- spices - to taste.
Preparation
Let's consider another option on how to cook beets in the oven. So, we wash the root vegetable, wipe it dry with a towel, sprinkle with salt, pepper, pour in olive oil, wrap the beets in foil and bake at 180 degrees in the oven for 15-20 minutes. Then cool the vegetable, separate it from the foil, peel it and cut it into small segments. Using a teaspoon, place a little onto the beet pieces, sprinkle pine nuts and serve the finished salad on the table.
Beet salad with bacon
Ingredients:
- beets – 6 pcs.;
- vegetable oil – 50 ml;
- apple cider vinegar– 2 tbsp. spoons;
- dry mustard seeds – 1 tbsp. spoon;
- sugar - a pinch;
- green onions;
- raw smoked bacon – 150 g.
Preparation
We wash the beets, wrap each one in foil and bake in a preheated oven for about an hour at 200 degrees. Then we clean it, cut it into 4 parts and chop it into thin pieces. Prepare a sauce from oil, salt, mustard, vinegar and sugar, stir it well. We water our beets with it and put it in a sealed container in the refrigerator for about 1 hour. Periodically lightly shake the container with beets.
During this time, cut the bacon into pieces and fry it without adding oil until crispy. Before serving, sprinkle the beets with chopped green onions and bacon.
Oven-baked beetroot borscht
Ingredients:
- green onion – 1 bunch;
- onion – 1 pc.;
- beets – 5 pcs.;
- celery stalk – 3 pcs.;
- lemon juice-2 teaspoons;
- sour cream – 100 ml;
- fresh dill – 1 bunch;
- spices - to taste.
Preparation
Celery stalks, white part of onion and onions clean, wash and finely chop. Pour vegetables into a liter cold water, add allspice, bring to a boil and cook for about 55 minutes over low heat. We wash the beets well, peel them and cut them into thin slices. Place them on a baking sheet and sprinkle with ground black pepper and salt. Bake for 25-30 minutes until the root vegetable becomes soft. Chop the finished beets into strips. Wash the bunch of dill, dry it and finely chop it. Now add dill, salt and ground pepper to taste. Then add the beets, bring to a boil and remove from heat. Our amazing one is ready!
Beets are included in the preparation of many dishes. For example, red borscht, caviar, beetroot soup, and all kinds of salads. However, most dishes are prepared from boiled root vegetables, but you can also bake beets in the oven. Surely some people think: “Well, what’s special about baking this vegetable?”, “Why can’t it just be boiled?” Others have a question: “How long to bake beets in the oven?” This article will answer all these questions, and a recipe with photographs will allow you to cook this dish Right.
Why are beets baked in the oven healthier than boiled beets?
I used to often boil this vegetable myself, until I accidentally found out that baking it is much healthier. I decided to try it and discovered that beets baked in the oven in foil (and this applies to almost any vegetable) have several advantages:
- Tastes better! Not everyone generally likes to eat this vegetable, but in vain, baked beets have a much richer and sweeter taste!
- More benefits! In addition, baked beets retain absolutely all valuable microelements, which are inevitably lost during the cooking process. That is why nutritionists recommend consuming it baked, since it is much healthier than boiled.
- The color is richer! Another important advantage of baking beets in the oven is that they always remain beautiful, rich and do not lose their beet color. After all, food is heated more evenly in the oven than when cooking on the stove.
- Better consistency! It turns out less watery than boiled, and the kitchen always remains clean and guaranteed order.
- Less hassle! You don’t have to wash the pan after cooking vegetables, which is a big saving of time and effort.
How to properly bake beets in the oven
To bake whole beets in the oven, you don’t need any special culinary skills, but there are still some points to consider:
- We will bake the beets whole, including the peel. Therefore, it is important to choose a vegetable with an intact skin, then it will retain its juices as much as possible during baking.
- It should also be taken into account that beets lose about 1/3 of their volume during baking, so you need to think about this point when calculating the amount for preparing a dish.
Methods for roasting beets
Today I’ll tell you about two ways to bake whole beets in the oven: in foil and in a sleeve. Both methods are simple, you can choose any of them. Once I wasn’t at home, a baking sleeve came to the rescue. And you know, it’s just as good as baking beets in it. There are even a number of advantages. If you need to wrap each root vegetable separately in foil, then you can put all the vegetables in the sleeve at the same time. Of course, if you have very small beets, then you can wrap them all in one sheet of foil, but medium-sized or large root vegetables still have to be wrapped separately. In addition, I noticed that the beets bake faster in the sleeve than in foil.
But this is not all convenient and quick ways roasting vegetables. Beets can also be baked in microwave oven in a heat-resistant bag. To do this, you will need to pierce the vegetable in several places and bake for 15 minutes at a power of 800 watts. Then leave for 5 minutes without opening the microwave. In both cases (baking in the oven or microwave), if the beets are a little dry for your taste, then pour 100 milliliters of water onto a baking sheet or plate.
Whatever baking method you choose, you can bake beets to prepare various dishes from them in advance and store them in the refrigerator, wrapped in foil, for about 3 days.
How long to bake beets in the oven
As for the time for baking beets in foil, a medium-sized root vegetable is completely baked at 200 degrees in 45 minutes. If the vegetable is large, the cooking time will double. You can check the readiness of the beets by piercing them with a toothpick.
Now you know how long to bake beets in foil. But if you decide to use a sleeve for these purposes, the vegetable will bake faster in it. In this recipe, I decided to tell you not only how to bake beets in the oven in foil, but also how to do it in a baking sleeve. Therefore, I wrapped some of the root vegetables in foil, and some in a sleeve and compared the cooking time. I had a large beetroot, which took 1 hour to bake in foil and 40 minutes in the sleeve.
How to bake beets in the oven whole in foil and a sleeve, recipe with photos step by step
Ingredients
Beets - several pieces (in my case 3 pieces)
Food foil or baking sleeve
Preparation
1. Cut off the tops from young beets, or remove the tails from old fruit. Wash the root vegetables thoroughly with a brush under running water, washing away all the dirt, and dry them with a paper towel. At the same time, do not cut the tail and tops too short! Since we will bake the whole beets in the oven, we will not cut off the peel either. 
2. Now let’s look at two options for baking beets in the oven.
The first one is in foil. To do this, cut it to the required size and wrap each root vegetable tightly so that there are no holes left. 
The second option is beets baked in a sleeve. We will also cut the sleeve to size, place the beets in it and secure it on the sides with the paper wire that comes with the kit. You can also use regular sewing thread for these purposes. 
3. Place the beets in foil or a sleeve on a baking sheet and bake in the oven at 200 degrees. 
Advice. In order to save energy, if you have an electric stove, then when the beets are almost ready, you can turn off the oven and leave the vegetable in it until it cools completely without unrolling the foil or sleeve.
4. Ready beets must be cooled. This is done so as not to get burned by the steam emanating from the freshly baked vegetable. Next, use the oven-baked beets according to the application, for example, cook vinaigrette, herring “under a fur coat” and other dishes. And you can read the delicious recipe in the next article, join the group on VKontakte and subscribe to site updates (both forms are on the right) so as not to miss the announcement!
Bon appetit!
Sincerely, Lyubov Fedorova.
Video recipe
I suggest watching a video recipe on how to bake beets in foil in two ways.
One of the common types vegetable salad- beetroot. Beetroot salads can be made with raw root vegetables. But most often boiled vegetables are used to prepare such dishes.
Beetroot for salad can be boiled in water, steamed in a double boiler or slow cooker. You can also bake it in the oven.
Baking and steaming are the most preferred methods, since during heat treatment, vegetables retain the greatest amount of vitamins, they do not boil down, do not become watery, and, as a result, they turn out more tasty and healthy.
This is described in detail in the article « Beet salad with cheese and garlic".
In this article we will talk about baking in the oven.
You can bake beets either peeled or peeled. Whole or in pieces.
In this case, I will talk about baking large beets weighing 700 grams.
Such a root vegetable would have to be baked for a long time. So I peeled it.
I cut it into medium pieces (do not chop it, so that it would be more convenient to grate the finished beets).
Placed in a baking dish in one layer.
I covered the pan with foil so that the vegetables would bake faster and not dry out. And sent it to bake in the oven at 190 degrees.
The beets are baked for about 1 hour. It may take 10-15 minutes less or more, depending on the oven and the vegetables themselves. You can check readiness with a toothpick. If the beets are soft and a toothpick fits into them easily, then they are ready.
The cooled pieces of beets can be grated and then follow the chosen salad recipe.
Small root vegetables are more suitable for roasting beets with skins. They should be washed well with a hard sponge or brush, placed in a baking dish in one layer, covered with foil and baked until ready. Peel the cooled beets and use them to prepare the salad.
Bon appetit! Cook easily and with pleasure!
Beets can rightfully be considered one of the healthiest and most accessible vegetables at any time of the year. This is a real storehouse of nutrients and vitamins with a minimum of calories. Therefore, it can be used in preparing healthy dietary dishes or eaten just like that. Most often, this vegetable is boiled in water for quite a long time. This destroys some of the vitamins. To save everything useful substances, as well as bright color and taste, you just need to learn how to bake beets in the oven.
Everything ingenious is simple
Cooking beets does not require any special skills. It's very simple. We only need vegetable oil and foil. Wash the root vegetables thoroughly (3-4 pieces or as needed) and pat dry with a paper towel. Drizzle the vegetables vegetable oil, lightly salt if desired. Now each vegetable needs to be wrapped in a double layer of foil so that it fits tightly to it. Place the resulting bundles on a baking sheet and bake. Beets are cooked in the oven for about an hour at temperatures up to 230 degrees. Much depends on the size of the root crops. You can check if the vegetables are ready using a fork. If it goes in easily, then the beets are ready - you can take them out. Cool it in foil and then remove the peel. A healthy side dish for lunch is ready. You can make it into a main dish - tasty and quite dietary.
Let's add variety
We will now tell you how to bake beets in the oven to make a hearty and healthy lunch. We will season the dish with various sauces. Prepare 3 medium-sized beets, 2 tablespoons each of soy sauce, balsamic vinegar and olive oil.
You will also need a spoonful of French mustard and the same amount of honey, a small clove of garlic. For this dish, the beets first need to be lightly boiled, but not for long. Add a spoonful of balsamic vinegar to the cooking water and soy sauce. Cool slightly, peel and cut the beets into large cubes. Prepare the dressing for baking. Mix all remaining ingredients, including honey, chopped garlic and thyme. Pour this marinade over the chopped beets, stir and leave for 7 minutes so that the vegetables are soaked in the sauce. How to bake beets in the oven with marinade if they are cut? Exactly the same as kissing. Place it in foil and cook for about half an hour at 200 degrees. You will get a very aromatic and rich in flavors dish. You can serve it as a side dish or eat it just like that.
Faster, but no worse
If you don’t have time to bother with the oven, you can also use the microwave. Vitamins will be preserved even with this method of preparation, and you will save time. Let's see how to bake beets in the microwave in two ways.
1. In a baking bag. We tie our washed and peeled beets in it and pierce a couple of holes so that the steam can easily escape. Cook in the microwave for about 15 minutes. Focus on the size of the vegetable and the power of the oven.
2. In a special container. Wash the beets and make a few holes in them with a fork so that the juice can come out easily and they don't burst. It takes the same amount of time to prepare - 10-15 minutes. You can then use the vegetable for salads, side dishes or other dishes. We hope that knowing how to bake beets in the oven or microwave, you will prefer this method to cooking root vegetables. This will allow you to get all the benefits of beets and preserve their rich taste.
