Beet Goat Cheese Mandarin Salad
Beet Goat Cheese Mandarin Salad can be a healthy salad to serve any day to the one you love. This combination of creamy goat cheese and crunchy pistachios over baked beets is not to be missed!
Servings: 2
Ingredients
- 2 beets greens cut off and rinsed and dried
- 2 ounces goat cheese softened
- 1 mandarin peeled and separated
- 2 tablespoon pistachios shelled and chopped
- pinch of kosher salt
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 teaspoon good quality olive oil
- 1 teaspoon balsamic olive oil
- 4 Fresh Basil leaves torn (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 °.
- Wrap beets in foil and place on baking sheet, roast in the oven for 50 minutes. They will be done when you can easily pierce with a fork.
- Let beets cool, and wrap beet in a paper towel, rub and the skin should remove easily. If some skin doesn't come off use an outer edge of a spoon to rub off.
- Slice beet into 3/4" slices.
- Using a 2"-3" heart shaped cookie cutter cut out the shape of a heart with beet. This is optional.
- Place beet slices on a plate.
- In a small bowl add goat cheese and using a fork, mash goat cheese until smooth and add 1 tablespoon of chopped pistachios and blend.
- Drop a dollop of goat cheese on top of beet slices.
- Sprinkle salt and pepper over each plate
- In a small bowl whisk together olive oil and balsamic and drizzle over evenly.
- Sprinkle remaining pistachios over top followed by torn basil leaves.