Vegetarian Provençal Beet Salad

WW Recipe of the Day: Vegetarian Provençal Beet Salad

Beets are still gloriously everywhere in the markets. All sizes and colors are abundant in farmers and supermarkets.

During this part of the season, my refrigerator is usually stocked with different colors and sizes of beets in various stages of cooking—raw, baked, commercially packaged cooked ones, and pickled like this salad which tastes delicious using either red, golden, or candy striped ones.

How Many Calories and WW Points in this French Beet Salad?

According to my calculations, each serving has 127 calories and:

1 *SmartPoints (Green plan)
1 *SmartPoints (Blue plan)
1 *SmartPoints (Purple plan)
3 *PointsPlus (Old plan)

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How to Make This Vegetarian Beet Salad with Black Olives

Step 1: Gather and prepare all ingredients.

Step 2: Place chopped beets and olives in medium bowl.

Step 3: Process the garlic, ginger and mint in a food processor (affiliate link)

or chop by hand until the mixture is finely minced.

Step 4: Stir the minced spices and cider vinegar with the beets until combined.

Step 5: Pace in a serving bowl and serve immediately, or cover and store in the refrigerator until serving time.

Recipe Notes

For this low carb salad recipe, it's easy and just as good to use packaged, air sealed beets that are widely available in most larger supermarkets these days.

I used dry cured small black olives. Any black Mediterranean style olive will work.

The Best Way to Cook Beets

If you do use fresh beets, follow this easy method to cook them:

Separate the beets from the attached greens and wrap them, UNPEELED, in foil.

Bake for up to 1-½ hours at 350F degrees, depending on the size of the beets.

Test for doneness with a sharp knife, right through the foil. If the knife moves easily through the beets, they are done. Cool until you can comfortably handle them. The skins should easily slip off with a gentle scrape of your knife. Then cut into desired size pieces. 

Save those greens for another day as they are equally delicious and easy to prepare.

Beets have a lovely ability to be both sweet and low calorie. Many recipes include sugar to balance the vinegar in the dish.

In Provence, we take a different turn. Salty Mediterranean olives are added to balance the sweetness instead along with ginger and mint.

This recipe uses apple cider vinegar which is also sweeter than most other ones.

The best advice I can give is to TASTE those cooked beets first and then decide if a little sweetener is needed.

Serving Suggestions

This salad also works as a side dish alongside grilled meats and fish. As a salad dish, serve on lettuce leaves or as part of a larger appetizer plate.

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If you like this Vegetarian Provençal Beet Salad, you might also like:

• Southwestern Beet Salad
• Marinated Beet Salad with Goat Cheese
• Red Beet Hummus
• Cranberry Orange Slow Cooker Beets

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