1 pound baby golden beets, organic, peeled and julienned
1/4 cup pickled ginger
½ cup granulated sugar
1 cup spring water
1 cup rice vinegar
1 tablespoon sea salt
Instructions
Beets
Poach beets in salted water, remove when tender, peel while hot, cool julienne pickled beets.
Dress greens in chimichurri
Season to taste
Dress beets (segregate colours to avoid bleeding) in olive oil and lemon
Season to taste
Dress plate with beet chutney, allowing excess syrup to pool in slightly alternate dressed beets by colour On top of chutney lightly place dressed greens over beets
Garnish with pickled beet julienne and crumbled blue cheese
Beet Chutney
Dice the cooked beets, and puree all the trim.
Make a simple syrup by bringing the vinegar, orange juice and sugar to a rolling boil
cool the syrup, fold in beets and the puree, reserve
Pickled Gold Beets
Peel beets and either julienne or cut to a small dice, as you prefer.
Combine vinegar, water, sugar, salt and ginger in a saucepot, bring to a boil.
Pour boiling liquid over the beets, cover and hold steeping for 30 min.