Golden Beet Carpaccio ♥

What an easy, elegant salad! It's just thin slices of roasted golden beet topped with a quick relish of capers and red onion. It makes such a beautiful plate or platter!

Real Food, Fresh & Colorful. Not Just Easy, Summer Easy. Little Effort, Big Taste. Weeknight Easy, Weekend Special. Scales from Small Plates to Large Platters. Low Carb. Weight Watchers Friendly. Vegetarian. Naturally Gluten Free.

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What Are Golden Beets?

Have you tried golden beets before? It's my first time. Call me hooked! The flavor is still very beet-ish but somehow a bit less earthy than red beets, more delicate. And the color, of course, is glorious ... you can use regular red beets, of course but the golden beets are extra pretty.

What Is "Carpaccio"?

Carpaccio [pronounced kar-PAH-chee-oh] is an hors d'oeuvre, errr, make that antipasto since carpaccio is an Italian appetizer not a French appetizer. Usually, carpaccio is an elegant plate of very thin slices of high-quality uncooked meat or fish (usually beef or venison or salmon or tuna) with a sauce. The distinctive elements? Thinness and rawness.

So yeah, this is beet, not beef! carpaccio and the beets are cooked instead of raw. But isn't it just the prettiest salad ever? And it's sooo easy! And soooooo good!!

How to Cut Thin Slices

I use a special vegetable slicer to slice the beets very thin. It's a small inexpensive tool called a mandoline (also called a Japanese Benriner) (affiliate link).

A mandoline makes it a breeze to create razor-thin slices of beet, also thin-thin-thin bits of red onion. The cutting area is about 2 1/2 inches wide, perfect for beets, potatoes and most vegetables. There's also a Super Benriner that's slightly wider. It includes the straight blade used for the beets, plus three interchangeable blades. And they're sharp! So there's a finger guard too. Want to know more? How (and Why!) to Use a Benriner (Japanese Mandoline / Mandolin).

But really, just a little careful knife work with a sharp knife will be fine too, especially if you're doing just one or two beets.

This recipe is so quick and easy that I'm adding it to a growing collection of easy summer recipes published all summer long ever since 2009 at Kitchen Parade, my food column. With a free Kitchen Parade e-mail subscription, you'll never miss a one!

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BEET CARPACCIO

Hands-on time: 15 minutes
Time to table: 15 minutes
Serves 4

BEETS
About 2 medium roasted golden beets, sliced very thin

RELISH
2 tablespoons red onion, thin sliced
2 tablespoons capers
2 tablespoons chopped fresh chive (or other herb)
1 large hard-boiled egg, chopped
Olive oil to bind (use the good stuff!)
Salt & pepper to taste

Arrange thin slices of beet on plates. Mix the Relish ingredients and arrange on top. Serve immediately.

ALANNA's TiPS & KITCHEN NOTES
BEETS If you use a knife to slice the beets, you'll likely need 4 medium beets, one per serving.
EGG Here's how I boil Perfect Hard-Cooked Eggs, perfect centers, no green rings, every time. But if you're not in the mood to cook an egg or two or dozen, just find something that adds the same texture. I especially love bits of blue cheese, feta would work, so I think would bits of cantaloupe!

NUTRITION INFORMATION Per Serving: 115 Calories; 8g Tot Fat; 1g Sat Fat; 52mg Cholesterol; 208mg Sodium; 9g Carb; 3g Fiber; 6g Sugar; 3g Protein. WEIGHT WATCHERS Old Points 2 & PointsPlus 3 & SmartPoints 4 & Freestyle 2 & myWW green 3 & blue 2 & purple 2

TODAY'S VEGETABLE RECIPE INSPIRATION Adapted from Bon Appetit, April 2007

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