This beet and blood orange salad recipe is topped with walnuts and goat cheese. Use red or yellow beets and your favorite type of orange.

Dress up beet salad with your favorite salad dressing or try the olive oil and orange vinaigrette in the recipe.

Blood Oranges & Roasted Yellow and Red Beets on a white plate with thyme and walnuts sprinkled over the top.

Salad Dressing For Beet and Blood Orange Salad

Beautiful seasonal blood oranges are sliced and layered with roasted beets in this seasonal salad. Garnish with chopped walnuts. Add a little creamy goat cheese if you like.

This beet and orange salad recipe has a simple orange and thyme vinaigrette. Use your favorite pre-made salad dressing to make this beet and orange salad even easier.

3 Raw Yellow Beets, 3 Raw Red Beets, and 3 oranges in a rectangle colander.

Tips For Making Blood Orange and Beet Salad

The red beets and yellow beets can NOT be cooked together. The red oranges will bleed into the yellow ones and your dish will not look beautiful.

Line your baking sheet with aluminum foil if cooking the beets just in case they leek and cause a sticky mess to clean up.

Peel beets when they have cooled down enough to handle. Run them under a light stream of running water and pull gently with your hands. Use a knife to peel if that doesn't work.

Wear an apron and potentially gloves if working with red beets. Red beets will stain nearly everything.

Ingredients on a wood cutting board: cooked whole red beets, cooked whole yellow beets, whole oranges, walnut pieces, small cup of goat cheese crumbles, and sprigs of thyme.

Variations on Beet and Blood Orange Salad

Use Red or Yellow Beets or buy pre-cooked beets to save time.
Boil the beets instead of roasting if that's easier.
Use Any Variety of Orange. Blood oranges are beautiful and unique. Navel oranges are super sweet. Cara Cara's are also sweet. Clementines also work!
Any nut will work - try pistachios, pecans, or marcona almonds.

Ingredients on a wood cutting board: cooked sliced red beets, cooked sliced yellow beets, peeled sliced oranges, small cup of walnut pieces, small cup of goat cheese crumbles, sprigs of thyme, and a chef's knife.

Make Beet and Orange Salad FASTER

Skip roasting the beets yourself and buy pre-cooked packaged beets at the grocery store. They are sold fresh in the refrigerator section, usually in or near the produce aisle.

Blood oranges only come around in the winter. Substitute any orange variety during a different season or if you can't find them.

Peeled & Sliced Blood Oranges on a wood cutting board sitting in their juice. — *Colorful "skinned" blood oranges.*

Things In My Kitchen:

Whisks - Set of 3, affordable and they whisk up vinaigrettes and eggs easily.
Baking Sheets - 12 x 18. Used for baking and roasting nearly anything & everything.

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Blood Orange and Beet Salad

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This roasted yellow and red beet salad recipe with blood oranges and walnuts is as delicious, vibrant, and fresh as it looks.

Author: beckie
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Yield: 6
Category: Side Dish
Method: Oven
Cuisine: International
Diet: Gluten Free

Ingredients

2 medium beets (pictured is a yellow and red)
3 blood oranges, divided
½ cup walnuts, chopped
4-6 thyme sprigs, divided
2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
¼ teaspoon salt
pinch black pepper
½ cup crumbled goat cheese - optional as garnish

Instructions

Make the vinaigrette or use your favorite store bought:

Remove thyme leaves from three of the thyme sprigs.
Juice one orange in a bowl and whisk in 2 tablespoon olive oil, thyme leaves, salt, and pepper.

Make the Orange and Beet Salad

Preheat oven to 425F.
Rinse and wrap the beets completely in aluminum foil so no air gets in. The red beets and yellow beets can NOT be cooked together. The red beets will bleed into the yellow ones and your dish will not be vibrant. Wrap the beets in their own packets of aluminum foil and cook separately.
Roast beets on a baking sheet ~ 1 hour or until tender when poked with a fork. Be careful when removing aluminum foil to check - you don't need a steam burn!
Remove beet skin under cool running water when cool enough to handle. If the skin is not loose enough to pull off with your hands, then use a knife or peeler to gently pull away the skin. Wear gloves to avoid staining your hands with red beet juice.
Slice beets thinly.
Remove the peel of the two remaining oranges with a knife. Slice thinly.
Arrange beets and oranges on a tray or individual plates. Drizzle with vinaigrette over the top and garnish with walnuts and extra thyme sprigs.
Add salt to taste. Garnish with goat cheese if you like. Happy Eating! Beckie

Notes

Make this orange and beet salad recipe simpler by just using one kind of beet and any orange you can find.
The red beets and yellow beets can NOT be cooked together. The red oranges will bleed into the yellow ones and your dish will not look beautiful. Wrap the beets in their own packets of aluminum foil.
Line your baking sheet with aluminum foil in case the beets break through their packages. This ensures that you are not scrubbing the sheet pan if sticky red sugary beet juice gets on it.