Baby Beets in Parmesan and Onion Sauce

Name: Baby Beets in Parmesan and Onion Sauce
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 600 ml/ 1 pt milk; freshly grated nutmeg; salt and pepper; 3 spring onions, finely chopped; 30 g/ 1 oz flour; 30 g/ 1 oz butter; 60 g/ 2 oz freshly grated Parmesan cheese; 675 g/ 1½ lb baby beets; 300 ml/ ½ pt chicken stock; chopped chives, for garnish; juice of 1 lemon

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Daily Mail Modern British Cookbook

By Alastair Little and Richard Whittington

Published 1998

About

This dish is particularly good with boiled gammon.

Ingredients

675 g/ 1½ lb baby beets
3 spring onions, finely chopped

Europe
United Kingdom
Side dish

Method

Baby beets are usually sold ready-cooked. If raw, trim off the leaves, leaving about 2 cm / ¾ inch of the stalks protruding and cut off the straggly root tip. Boil for about 30 minutes in lots of lightly s