- Guys today, we are roasting beets.
I love beets 'cause they're really nutritious
and they're not your canned beets,
that your grandmother tried to get you to eat, for sure.
When you roast them, they get caramelized,
they're delicious and today I'm gonna show you
how you can roast them at home super easy,
whether you peel them or not.
I wanna show you both methods
so you can enjoy this delicious vegetable.
So, here I have a beet that I've already washed and peeled
and this, are gonna go in our sheet pan,
seasoned very simply.
So, what you want to do is simply cube them,
or roast them whole, but they take a little longer.
Beets are very similar to sweet potatoes when they roast,
they're gonna take about the same amount of time
and like all roasted vegetables, the oven goes to 375,
so you can easily put your sheet pan in there
and get on with the rest of your meal.
Now, these are fresh beets,
they came with the bunch and everything
and you can prep these ahead,
whether it's wash them and peel them ahead of time
and keep them in the fridge during your meal prep days,
or you can do this right before dinner.
There is a roasted vegetable video on this channel,
where I show you how I roasted these beets
with butternut squash and Brussels sprouts.
And from that video, I received a lot of questions
from people saying that they couldn't find a fresh beets,
so, but they still want roasted beets,
because the canned ones aren't so great.
So, my suggestion is at the grocery store,
when you're in the produce section,
sometimes they sell peeled and steamed beets.
So, they're already cooked,
but they're not like the canned ones.
So, you can take those steamed beets that,
they're usually in a airtight bag
and you can also take them out of the bag,
pat them dry, place them on your sheet pan.
And in about 10 minutes,
those same beets are gonna be delicious,
but they're, you're gonna bring out that caramelization
from roasting them.
So, if you can't find fresh beets,
that's definitely also an option.
So, I'm simply gonna take my cubed beets
and place them on a sheet pan, like this
and I cut them into like little cubes,
so they cook a little faster.
For this simple method, I just drizzle them
with some olive oil, some pepper
and salt.
Now, if you wanna put garlic powder over your beets,
you can do that too, or your favorite seasoning,
but I am just going to put olive oil,
salt and pepper and get these roasted.
Now, the second method I'm gonna show you
is how to roast these without having to peel them.
I simply washed these already, cut off the leafy stem
and the other thing you wanna do,
is cut off this little tail base
from your beets and then we roast them.
Now, you could simply place these on your sheet pan
and roast them whole, but what I like to do is,
so the beets are very easy to peel after they're cooked,
is take some aluminum foil,
place each beat and it's like just a foil square,
I like to drizzle it with olive oil,
same way as my cubed ones,
but right on the foil and some salt.
And then I wrap them
and whole like this, I place them on a baking sheet.
Now, these beets are pretty small,
usually you'll have two to three, to a bunch,
but for whatever reason,
these beets that I got are really small.
So, this foil method,
I like to use it when I have really large beets,
kind of like the size of a small sweet potato.
It works really well, because peeling it
can take a while and I know a lot of people
don't wanna get their hands stained or whatnot,
so that works well.
The cooking time is also going to vary,
depending on the size of your beets.
Now, your beets are smaller,
you could put two or three of this size
in a single foil sheet, but when you have a large beet,
definitely give it its own space.
The foil is going to hold the steam and the heat
and so it's gonna help it cook.
So, in our tray it goes.
I'm gonna place these both in the oven
and we're gonna see what they look like
and how to peal them, after.
I obviously, I only made a small batch of roasted beets,
which are the ones on the sheet pan were already peeled
and well, you want them to cook about 30 to 35 minutes.
But again, it's like fork tender,
so when you put your fork in it,
so good, delicious.
All right, so the ones in foil,
we're gonna wait a couple of minutes, so we can peel them.
So, let's check that out,
'cause right now they're gonna be hot.
Now, that these have kind of waited for about 10 minutes
and they're not super hot to the touch,
I wanna show you a closeup, as you can see,
the skin has kind of become wrinkly and cooked.
The beets are soft, I can feel them
and you're simply going to take the skin off like that,
peel them after.
So, it is really easy to cook your beets whole
in foil without peeling them
and then peel them right before you serve them.
And again, you wanna let them cool off completely,
because they're kind of warm.
Now, another trick that you can do,
is grab some paper towels and get your beet
and then use the paper towels,
to separate the skin from the beets.
So, that also works really well and it kind of eliminates
some of that staining on your hands,
but I just scrub my hands after and no big deal,
so that method also works.
I know sometimes these basic videos
are helpful to those of us who are trying
to just eat cleaner and healthier
and the reality is, is that if you know how to cook
nutritious ingredients like this one,
the right way, to make them taste so good,
again, not like canned beets,
it makes eating clean so much easier
and for details on my clean eating program for families,
you can click the link right below this video.
See you guys next time.
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