Oven Roasted Golden Yellow Beets

This easy oven roasted golden beet recipe is made even more delicious marinated in a light white wine vinegar and olive oil dressing. Roasted yellow beets are one of my all time favorite side dishes. 

Golden beets are also called yellow beets or orange beets.

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Roasted golden beets are easy to make and taste like healthy candy.  The yellow beets don't need the white wine vinegar and oil marinade necessarily but it does make them richer and sweeter and gives them a proper amount of tang.

How To Cook Golden Beets

It takes a long time for golden beets to cook in the oven (~ 1 hour at 425F), but hands on prep time is minimal - around 15 minutes.

• Preheat oven to 425F.
• Wrap each beet in it's own aluminum foil packet (making sure that it's tightly closed) and place on a lined baking sheet (for easy clean up in case foil leaks).
• Cook ~ 1 hour or until fork pierces softly through the beet.  Be careful opening up the aluminum packets to avoid getting a steam burn.  
• Cool golden beets, remove skin under running water, and slice into wedges.
• Make the vinaigrette: Combine all vinaigrette ingredients in a jar with a lid and shake vigorously.
• Combine beets with sliced onions and toss with the vinaigrette.  Add salt to taste.
• FYI - Beets will taste better after a couple hours when the onions have broken down and the flavors have had time to blend together.

Variations on Easy Cooked Golden Beets

Vinegar generally brings out yellow beets natural sweetness. Don't like vinegar?  Cool - leave it off of your beets and just toss them with olive oil, salt, and pepper. Still delicious, just not as tangy as with the vinegar.

Use red or yellow golden beets - this recipe is versatile! Use yellow / golden beets if you don't want to stain your hands or cutting board. Yellow beets do not bleed like red beets (which stain everything).

But even more importantly, yellow beets generally taste less earthy and sweeter than red beets. Having said that, any beet color or variety will work with this golden beet recipe.

Don't have fresh herbs? Skip the step or add a pinch or two of your favorite dried herbs to roasted yellow beats.

The Difference Between Boiled and Roasted Golden Beets

Beets can also be boiled for approximately the same time if you don't want to use your oven.  Make sure to check the beets after the 30 minute mark to see if they are tender (the fork should pierce through the beet easily).

Lastly, when boiling beets, make sure there is enough water in the pot to cover the beets. The cooking water tends to evaporate, especially if the pot is not covered.

Beets baked or roasted in the oven in foil have a more complex, deeper, and sweeter taste, because the flavor is concentrated into the beet as it cooks.

Conversely, beets boiled in water leach out some of their flavor (and nutrients) into the cooking water.

How To Easily Peel Roasted Golden Beets

First off, cooked beet skin can be eaten. Younger beet skin is thinner and not as bitter as older, more fibrous beet skin. Having said that, just because you can eat it, doesn't mean you should or have to eat it!

To easily peel cooked beets: run cooled roasted golden beets under a small stream of running water and remove the skin with your hands quickly instead of using a peeler.

Fresh beets are easier to "peel with your hands". Use a small knife to peel older beet skin.

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