Beetroot Baked in Cream and Lemon

Name: Beetroot Baked in Cream and Lemon
Ingredients: 2 lb/900 g cooked beetroots; Grated rind of 1 lemon; ¼ pint/140 ml single cream; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 rounded tbsp breadcrumbs

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

About

If you should happen to be counting calories, you can substitute natural yoghurt for the cream in this recipe. It will give a rather drier result, but is still good. Beetroot goes with all things gamey, and I think its spectacular colour dresses up the contents of a dinner plate like nothing else can.

Ingredients

2 lb/900 g cooked beetroots
Grated rind of 1 lemon</

Dinner
Side dish
Vegetarian

Method

Butter a shallow ovenproof dish. Slice the cooked beetroots evenly about ⅛ inch/3 mm thick. Arrange the slices in the buttered dish, overlapping each other. Sprinkle the grated lemon rind over the beetroot