Recipe: Beet Salad with Horseradish Cream and Frizzled Sweet Onions
Do we really need another beet salad? We really don’t need much, but would you love another beet salad? My guess is yes. There’s certainly room on our server, so why not?
Last week, Maxwell and I ate at Market Table, a fine little establishment in our neighborhood. We shared a beet salad with a piquant horseradishy cream base, some fried shallots and a nice googey wedge of blue goat cheese.
Here’s my version, with apologies for the photo: next time I make it I’ll get out the lights and set it up properly: this one, I admit, was done as it was being served, with a few glasses of Prosecco already down the pipe.
In terms of the slab of goat cheese suggested, Market Table uses Selles Sur Cher, which is relatively easy to find, but I chose a blue goat cheese from France, only because I tried a bit at the cheese counter and loved it. As an alternative, what about something like Classic Blue Log from Westfield Farm, or Cypress Grove Chevre’s Humboldt Fog?
Beet Salad with Horseradish Cream and Frizzled Sweet Onions
Serves 4
Nutritional Info
Ingredients
- 4
medium beets, mixed variety if available
- 5 tablespoons
olive oil, divided
- 2 tablespoons
sherry vinegar
- 1/4 teaspoon
salt
- 1
yellow onion, sliced in thin rings
- 1 teaspoon
sugar
- 1/4 cup
Mascaropone cheese
- 1 1/2 teaspoons
horseradish
- 4
large bite-sized slabs of goat cheese
- 2 teaspoons
chopped Italian parsley
freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
Roast and peel the beets. Let cool, then slice each into 8-10 segments.
In a medium frypan over medium heat, heat olive oil and cook onion rings with a pinch of salt, stirring frequently so as not to burn. Add the sugar after 10 minutes or so then cook until caramelized, another 10 to 15 minutes. Set aside on paper towels to drain.
Whisk together 3 tablespoons olive oil, vinegar and salt. Pour mixture in a re-sealable plastic bag, or, if using a mixture of beet varieties, divide among number of bags as different colored beets. Place beets in bag(s), seal, and shake gently to disperse dressing.
In a small bowl, mix Mascarpone and horseradish.
To plate, spread a tablespoon of horserasdish cream on a salad plate. Top with a quarter of the total beet slices, onions, one slice of cheese, a few pinches of parsley and a few cracks of ground pepper.