9 vibrant beet recipe that cannot be defeated (sorry, I had to)

While I went to culinary school, I never cooked a beet, much less to eat something that didn't come out of a glass or kettle that my mother sometimes exploded and would throw it in a green salad if she felt fashionable. I didn't like them or didn't like them on its own – they were simply “garnish”. My opinion changed completely when I tasted the fried beets and realized what was missing in the first 25 years of my life (the choir cuga). Regardless of whether they are raw, roasted (my preferred method), roasted, or steamed, fresh sugar beet is sweetness, delicious ground and intense pigmentation that you simply cannot obtain from the canned or crowded variety purchased in most stores.

In order to celebrate everything we like about this unbeatable root vegetable, I have collected some of our favorite, bright sugar beet recipes, including soups, salads, latchs, gratin and even a hot pink cocktail, so tune in to the beet.