10 Ways to cook Beetroot -Dairy free

BEETROOT

Since I eat a vegetable based diet due to my IBS, it's lucky that I love veggies.  However there are only so many ways I can eat them,   before I get bored.  Which is why I like to search out and try new recipes.

1. Soup and Salad

Velvety Beetroot & potato soup

Easy soup to make.  I diced vac pack beetroot & a medium potato, then I covered them in veg stock.  Once cooked through, I blitzed them with my hand blender.  The potato gives the soup it's creaminess without the need for dairy.  

Vegan borscht  - vegangela

Beet, apple and orange salad - Vegetarian.food

Raw Beet Salad - Gentleworld.org

2. Preserves

It wasn't that long ago that the only beetroot you would find in the shops was preserved.  Unless you were lucky enough to grow your own.  

Pickled Beetroot  - Traditional recipe courtesy of Mrs Beeton

Pickled beetroot  - Recipe from British Larder spiced with star anise and cinnamon

Beetroot chutney - My mum makes great beetroot chutney, this one from River Cottage.net is the closest one to her own recipe.  

3. Juice

There seems to be a trend for drinking vegetable juices. Not something I'm keen on trying, but that's because I prefer to eat my food.  Mostly due to jaw surgery, where I had to drink all my food through a straw for 2 weeks.  

Beetroot juice - Raw foods-living foods for recipe and tips on making your own.

Healthy beets.com - has more recipes

4. Chips & Dips

One of the few vegetables you can eat at the same time as both a chip and  a dip.  

Baked Beet Chips - Martha Stewart.com

Oven baked beet Chips - from Just a Pinch 

Beetroot Dip - Australian food.com

Beetroot and horseradish dip  - Replace the creme fraiche with soy yogurt to make this vegan

5. Fried or cooked on the hob

Savoury Beetroot Pancakes

To make these Savoury pancakes, I swapped pureed beetroot for the dairy free milk in the recipe.  If your looking for an vegan version, substitute a flax seed egg for a real one.  

Beet Burger - Mind Body Green

Vegan Beetroot Fritters - house and home.com

Deep Fried Beetroot Fritter  - All Recipes.com, this recipe uses quartered beetroot instead of grated to make the fritters.  

Beetroot Latkes - Standard.co.uk  Vegetarian recipe that can be made vegan, by using a flax seed egg substitute

6. Casseroles

Vegetable casseroles sound boring but don't really need to be, if you get creative.  

Beet Bourguignon - Guardian.co.uk

Beet Casserole - Vegetarian.food.com

Kohlrabi and beet gratin - Fit and Frugal.  Substitute another root veg for the kohlrabi if you can't find any.  

7. Baked

Natural red velvet Cup Cakes

Iv been looking for a vegan red velvet cupcake that doesn't have any artificial colouring added.  I finally found one on The sweetest vegan that uses puree beetroot to give the cake it's reddish hue.  

It was a really easy recipe to follow.  Beetroot is one of the few vegetables you can't buy in a can/tin in the UK.  However vac pac skinned beetroot is easy to find in most supermarkets, usually in the fruit and veg section.  Weight out what you need and chop them.  I used my hand blender to puree them.  

Vegan Beetroot brownie recipe - from the vegan nutitionista.  Iv made a similar recipe before and it really works.  You don't really taste the  beetroot, however it gives the Brownies a lovely fudgy texture.   I didn't tell anyone the special ingredient till after they ate it.  The must have  liked it as they all came back for more.  

Beetroot soda bread  - I love soda bread so was happy to find this recipe from Chatworth House.  The recipe calls for an egg, but like a scone recipe you do not really need to add one.  You might need a little more Dairy free milk to form the dough though.  

8. International Recipes

I made a simple beetroot and red onion jam tart with shortcrust pastry, for lunch yesterday.  An easy and delicious meal.  Looking at International recipes is a great way of making a veggies more interesting.  

Beetroot Tart Tatin  UKTV.Food

Beetroot Aloo Koora - All Recipes.com

Georgian Beets in Cherry sauce - Food.com

Roasted Beets with Skordalia IVU International Vegetarian Recipes.  

9. Desserts

Beetroot is a sweet vegetable. It's not only great for cakes and bakes but desserts as well.  For a tasty dessert, try serving the vegan beetroot brownie warm with some dairy free yogurt and berries.  

Beet Bread Pudding - Vegetarian recipe from what's cooking America.  

Chocolate mousse pie     - Recipe from Love Food Eat, using beetroot as a secret ingredient

Carrot and beetroot halwa - Indian dessert recipe, this quick recipe is from Pachakam

10. More Inspiration

Surprisingly there are other veggie loving folk out there that love Beetroot as much as I do.  Check out the below Internet sites for more inspiration.  

Love beetroot   - Great site full of fun facts, history and recipes all dedicated to beetroot.  

Getting in a jam - The red pigment in beetroot is used to colour strawberry jam as well as to improve the colour of tomato paste, sauces and strawberry ice cream.

Beetroot recipes.co.uk  - Another dedicated Beetroot Internet site.  

Healthy-beets - All about healthy beets and how to prepare them.  

Guardian - An article on the 10 Best beetroot recipes

allotment.org.uk  - Check out this website for advise on how to grow your own

Now you have no excuse for not eating 1 of your 5 Veg a day xxx