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Roasted Beets with Garlic
Beets are sometimes an overlooked vegetable, but I like to cook a batch and keep them on hand to use in salads or for quick colorful side dishes. Roasting brings out the sweetness and the coconut oil and garlic complement their flavor.
Time to table: 60 minutes
Serves: 4
Beet, Fennel & Endive Salad with Macadamia Dressing
This fresh and simple salad is packed with monounsaturated fats (MUFAs) from the macadamia nuts. MUFAs are one of the heart-helping ingredients abundant in the Mediterranean diet that help to stabilize blood sugar and promote a feeling of fullness.1
Time To Table: 10 minutes
Serves: 6
Healthy Beet Salad: A Metabolic Code Recipe
Forget grandma’s canned version and rediscover the goodness of fresh beets.
Beet Latkes
Substituting beets for potatoes in traditional latkes not only saves on calories, but also reduces the glycemic index of the dish and adds a powerful cancer-fighting nutrient, as well. Betacyanin — the pigment that gives beets their rich, purple-crimson color, was recently found to increase the number of immune cells in the colon (called CD8 [...]
Arugula, Roasted Beet & Goat Cheese Salad
This arugula salad is great way to get the health benefits of cruciferous vegetables without eating broccoli.
