Health Benefits of Beets + Three Delicious Recipes

While a trendy food, beets are anything but new. Their origins trace back to ancient Babylon, Greece, and Rome. These root vegetables are a delicious and nutritious way to add a ton of vitamins, minerals, and plant compounds to your diet.

Today, Cook It will discuss the health benefits of beets and share with you three new easy recipes for dishes with the bright-red veggie.

Health Benefits of Beets

Beets contain many organic acids, mineral salts, vitamins, folic acid, and betaine. The number of antioxidants in this root vegetable is not as surprising as their unusual combination.

Doctors often recommend that people with digestive problems and chronic inflammation include beets in their diet.

Moreover, scientists have proven that nitrates in beets make the body more resilient during physical activity and strengthen the cardiovascular system. Benefits all around!

Recipes With Beets

Diet Beet Salad

Ingredients:

• 1 beet
• 1 sour apple
• walnuts to taste
• lemon juice to taste
• salt, ground black pepper to taste
• vegetable oil to taste

Instructions:

1. Boil a beet and let it cool before proceeding to peel it and cut it into matchsticks.
2. Slice the apple the same way and then combine it with beets and the rest of the ingredients.

Beet Rolls

Ingredients:

• 1 beet
• a few spoonfuls of soft cottage cheese
• a few sprigs of cilantro
• salt, ground black pepper, spices to taste
• ¼ hot pepper
• vegetable oil to taste

Instructions:

1. Cut the beet into thin rings, sauté in a skillet with oil, and season with salt.
2. Combine cottage cheese, hot pepper, cilantro, and spices in a bowl.
3. Spread a thin layer of the mass onto the beet slices and form little rolls. Ta-dah!

Rice Salad With Beets and Tuna

Ingredients:

• 5 ¼ oz (150 g) rice
• 1 beet
• 2 red onions
• 1 can of tuna in its own juice
• balsamic vinegar to taste
• olive oil to taste
• salt, ground black pepper to taste

Instructions:

1. Cook rice and boil beet in separate pots and let cool.
2. Peel the beet and cut it into cubes. Do the same with red onions.
3. Mash tuna with a fork and combine it with the boiled rice, beet and onion cubes, and the rest of the ingredients.

We hope you test out these recipes and get excited about proper nutrition. Be sure to leave your feedback in the comments section and share this helpful article with your friends!

For more meal inspiration, check out our recipes for beetroot hummus, cutlets, and pickled beets in a jar.

Valerie

I am an English major with a love of languages and fiction, and with an incurable travel bug. In my free time, I read fantasy, drink copious amounts of coffee, and like to go see movies. Culinary art means everything to me. My main hypostasis is the taster, though. The music school has taught me to appreciate the symphony of airy meringues, to create harmonious overtures of light snacks, hard rock of meat, fish, and vegetables on the grill. Choir classes have accustomed me to hear and feel the people nearby and create perfect harmonies of sounds.