Best Carrot And Beet Salad With Ginger Vinaigrette Recipes
BEET AND CARROT SALAD
You can make this raw, root vegetable slaw up to four days before you plan to eat it.
Provided by Magdalena Wszelaki
Categories HarperCollins Salad Vegetarian Vegetable Carrot Beet Healthy Quick and Healthy Lunch Walnut
Yield 4-6 servings
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- To make the salad, combine all of the salad ingredients in a large bowl. To make the dressing, place all the dressing ingredients in a jar. Seal the lid and shake until well combined. Pour the dressing over the salad and toss until well coated. Serve at room temperature or chilled. Keeps well in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.
SHREDDED CARROT AND BEET SALAD
One of my favorite gatherings is the Food as Medicine conference, which brings together hundreds of nutritionally minded physicians, nurses, and other wellness professionals. I cook for the attendees, and while they often kindly tell me how much they learn from me, it definitely goes both ways. In fact, this recipe was inspired by Dr. Joel Evans, who is attracted to nutrition from both a scientific and an aesthetic viewpoint and loves to speak about the colors of food having a tangible relation to their healing qualities. There is a school of thought-and increasing scientific evidence-that the more vibrant the color, the more nutrition there is to be found in a food. As an ode to Joel, I set out to create the most colorful salad I could, using purple beets, orange carrots, and fresh mint. If I'd had a vegetable crisper instead of a box of crayons as a kid, this salad would have been the result. You can substitute lemon or lime juice for the orange juice.
Yield serves 4
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Whisk the orange juice, lemon juice, olive oil, ginger, and salt together until thoroughly combined. Put the carrots in a mixing bowl, drizzle with half of the dressing, and toss until evenly coated. Place the carrots on one side of a shallow serving bowl. Put the beets in the mixing bowl, drizzle with the remaining dressing, and toss until evenly coated. Place the beets in the serving bowl next to the carrots for a beautiful contrast of red and orange. Top with the chopped mint before serving.
- Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 3 to 5 days.
- (per serving)
- Calories: 50
- Total Fat: 2.5g (0.4g saturated, 1.7g monounsaturated)
- Carbohydrates: 7g
- Protein: 1g
- Fiber: 2g
- Sodium: 195
- When it comes to antioxidants, including the carotenoids so prevalent in orange fruits and vegetables, experts pretty much sing the same song: Generally speaking, the right way to go is to cast a wide net instead of focusing on a single antioxidant. (This is their way of saying don't turn into a rabbit and consume so many carrots that you turn orange from a beta-carotene megadose.) Nutritionist Suzanne Dixon notes, "Individual, isolated carotenoids don't tend to provide a whole lot of benefit. You should get the whole food, preferentially. Getting a lot of different carotenoids in the diet, I believe, is a very, very good biomarker of general healthy eating behavior. Those people tend to do better in terms of disease risk across the board."
CARROT AND BEET SALAD WITH LEMON VINAIGRETTE
We bought my grandmother a food processor, but she continued to use her hand-cranked shredder for grating. Made of cast aluminum, it was a sturdy beast that attached to the counter with a vise. She would peel the carrots and Dede would patiently shred them into a large bowl for carrot slaw. This recipe is a bit more complex in flavor and technique than Meme's, and I use a food processor to shred the vegetables. Just make sure you shred the carrots first! To prevent the beets from staining the carrots when mixed in the salad, the key is to dress the beets before combining with the carrots. This seals in their red pigments (betalains), which don't dissolve in oil.
Yield serves 4 to 6
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- To make the dressing, whisk together the shallot, garlic, mustard, and lemon juice in a bowl. Add the walnut oil in a slow stream and blend until smooth. Season with salt and pepper; mix in the chopped walnuts. Set aside.
- In separate bowls, toss the carrots with half the dressing and the beets with the remainder. Taste each and adjust for seasoning with salt and pepper.
- Once the vegetables are separately dressed, they may be combined and served, or refrigerated and held separately for up to several hours before combining (you may either bring to room temperature or serve chilled). Serve immediately after the carrots and beets are mixed.
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