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Beet, Radish & Walnut Salad

A fresh salad with roasted sweet beets, pickled radish, raw walnut and feta over a bed of crisp rocket. Drizzled with a maple vinaigrette.
Course Main Course, Salad, Side Dish
Keyword beetroot, butternut salad, healthy salad, Lunch, maple, radish, rocket, walnut
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Servings 2
Author Cat Barker

Ingredients

  • 40 g rocket washed
  • 2 wheels feta cut into cubes
  • 2 small beetroot fresh
  • 1 tbsp maple syrup
  • salt & pepper to taste
  • olive oil extra virgin
  • 5 small radishes
  • 120 ml vinegar white
  • 15 ml sugar
  • 50 g raw walnuts

Vinaigrette

  • Pickling juice from the radishes
  • 1 tbsp maple syrup

Instructions

  • To make the salad, first boil your beetroot whole for 20 minutes or so, ensuring it is not completely soft.
  • Cut into cubes and place on a baking tray, which has been coated with olive oil and salt and pepper . Roast at 200C for 30 minutes or so and 5 minutes before removing, add your maple syrup to caramelize the beet in the last few minutes of cooking.
  • While your beet is cooling, make your pickled radishes. Slice your radishes first into paper thin slices.
  • Mix vinegar with sugar and let your radishes soak in this mixture
  • Assemble the salad by placing rocket on plate or in bowl, topping with cubed feta, cooled beetroot and walnuts.
  • Remove the radishes from pickling juice and add to salad.

The Vinaigrette

  • To make the vinaigrette,, just add maple syrup to the pickling juice and viola, you will have a dressing. which you can drizzle over the salad.