Oven-roasted beets with goat cheese

Preparation info
  • Makes

    4

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Complex

    • Ready in

      2 hr 30

Appears in

By Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Mark Bittman

Published 2000

  • About

Baking beets is by far the best way to cook them—they don’t become waterlogged, they’re less messy to prepare, and their sweetness is intensified rather than leached out. Once you try it, you’ll never go back to boiling. For the beet greens, you can substitute almost any herb, like parsley, chervil, or basil.

Ingredients

  • ½ pounds beets
  • 1 cup soft fresh goat cheese
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Wash the beets. Leaving them wet, wrap them individually in foil. Place them in a roasting pan or on a baking sheet and bake for about