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Beets - Recipes and Tips for Using Beets

Whether small spring specimens with their delicious greens still attached or large wintered-over roots perfect for roasting, beets add sweetness and earthiness to all kinds of dishes, from roasted beet salads or chilled beet soup (a.k.a. borscht). Find easy, delicious recipes as well as tips for roasting, grilling, and cooking beets of all kinds - whether red, golden, chiogga, or striped.
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How to Roast Beets
Roasted beets have a sweeter flavor than unroasted beets, and their peels slip off like sweaters. See how easy it is to roast beets.

How to Grill Beets
Yes, you can grill beets! The hot fire of the grill brings out the earthy sweetness of beets with an added hint of smokey flavor and an almost candied coating.

10 Great Ways to Use Root Vegetables
Find great ways to use root vegetables like beets.

Types of Beets
Beets come in a range of colors and sizes - including candy-can-striped chioggia beets. See different kinds of beets and get ideas on how to cook with them here.

Baked Beets
Beets are delicious simply baked - see an easy way to make baked beets here.

Beet "Potato" Chips
Beet "potato" chips are sweet, earthy, and crisp.

Beet and Cabbage Borscht
Technically, borscht is any stew-type soup. The best-known kind in the U.S., however, is made with beets and is brilliantly red.

Chilled Beet Soup (Cold Borscht)
Sweet, earthy spring beets become a refreshing chilled soup in this easy recipe for chilled beet borscht.

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