Beet Salad with Goat Cheese

This recipe which received 5 out of 5 stars from people rating the cookbook Top Chef The Cookbook by The Creators of Top Chef and Tom Colicchio is an extremely attractive salad and very healthy too.  This cookbook is currently on the best seller's list, along with the hit TV show, Top Chef.

 

 

Beet Salad:

4 large red beets

4 large yellow beets

Drizzle of olive oil

A few caps balsamic

Salt and pepper to taste

Chives to taste

A few leaves tarragon

1/2 log Boucheron goat cheese

A few tiny leaves basil stem

A few bunches chervil

A few tangles yellow frisee

1 knob ginger root, crushed

 

 

 

Ras El Hanout Spices with Honey:

1/2 cup mustard seeds, toasted

Cumin to taste

Fennel to taste

Coriander to taste

Drizzle of honey

 

 

Directions: 

Roast beets (reserve 1 quart reduced beet juice), dice and mix with olive oil, balsamic, salt and pepper, chives and tarragon. Slice cheese and dress with beets. Toss basil, chervil and frisee with olive oil and serve. Drizzle on reduced beet juice with ginger.

 

 

Ras El Hanout Spices with Honey:

Blend mustard seeds in spices and honey

 

 

-Emily