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Originally Posted by nenella
Rosie, I'd love to try 'your way' but could do with a bit more info please. do you peel them (when raw ) before cooking? Do you cook them whole? How long do they take at what Temp? Do you put the vinegar on once cooked? etc etc....
Thanks in advance!
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They are pealed raw and chopped into cubes. With the size beetroot we have it may be 4 or 6 cubes per beet, probably as a guideline they would be around 1" cubes or a bit smaller (obviously quite irregular cubes with the shape of the beets), too small and they dry too much and over-cook.
They are put in a bowl with a bit of olive oil and moved around to get a thin coating. This also helps stop them drying too much. Then laid out on a baking tray often mixed with other root veggies. We tend to find it's best if they are laid out close, not spread too much.
We sprinkle the contents of the tray with Balsamic vinigar, fresh ground black pepper and finely chopped Rosemary (fresh from the garden in the summer, frozen or dried works in the winter but if it was bought dried we chop it finer than it comes in the packet).
It is then roast in the oven. I will have to get back to you with temp and duration as hubby does that bit and he's still asleep at the moment. It's somewhere around 200-220C and could be somewhere around 20min but I will have to check that. The aim is to get them tender, undercooked will be too hard as you bite through, overcooked will be dried out and too crispy (even black). Just cooked right and they are tender and soft, a little bite to them but not too much. Oooh, that's making me hungry
As I said above we often do a mixed tray of veg all cooked the same way. Beetroot is my favourite part but we will mix in Carrot, Parsnip, Sweet Potato, Butter-nut Squash and things like that. Sometimes just one of them, sometimes more, sometimes everything like that we have.
I never used to like veg at all. My mum tried for years to get me to eat veg and gave up when I reached 16. My mother-in-law when I lived with her tried as well and I would eat some to be polite and because I knew I should. Cooking veg this way is the first time I actually enjoy veg, possibly even enjoying it more than the meat in some meals and I never thought that would be the case
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