Roasted Golden Beets and Eggplant Recipe

Eggplant and beets are both delicious vegetables. They can be a little intimidating however, if you have never cooked with them. Really though, there is nothing very hard about preparing either of them.

Last week I promised I would share the recipe I made using the eggplant and golden beets I bought at the Saturday market.

Eggplant

If you are chopping eggplant to use pieces in a recipe, the best tip I have found for preparing this vegetable is to peel the skin off in strips.  This way, you still have some of the pretty purple skin in your
dish, but not so much that the eggplant texture is tough.

My vegetable peeler is not sharp enough for this task. I find that scoring the areas I want to peel, and then carefully shaving them off those sections with a sharp knife works best.

Eggplant turns brown quite quickly after it is cut. A little discoloration doesn't matter if you are baking it, but for the best appearance, you should prepare it as soon after cutting it as possible.

This article demystifies a lot about cooking eggplant: How to Cook Eggplant.
Fine Cooking also offers a lot of good tips for preparing eggplant.

Beets

We usually associate beets with a deep red color. They also can be yellowish or orange, a variety which is called a golden beet.  Both red and yellow beets are very nutritious, and the preparation for either is the same. As I said in my previous article, one for the things I like about golden beets is that they don't stain your hands as badly as red ones do while preparing them!

Golden beets don't seem as readily available for purchase as red ones, but I really like to cook with golden ones, or a combination of golden and red, whenever I come across them.

Did you know that it has been found that consuming beetroot juice can help with blood pressure management? Just one more reason to grow and eat these tasty vegetables!

Here is a recipe using both golden beets and eggplant that I prepared last week. 

We loved it.

Roasted Golden Beets and Eggplant
(Printable Recipe: Click here)

Ingredients:
1 eggplant
1 bunch yellow beets
1 medium onion, white or yellow
3 cloves garlic
olive oil
salt and pepper

Method:
1.Prepare a rimmed baking dish by lining the bottom with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Wash eggplant. Peel skin off in strips, then rough-chop the peeled eggplant into bite-sized pieces
3. Cut leaves and stems off the beets and careful pare away the peel. (Yellow beets don't stain nearly as badly as red ones, but if you are worried about discoloring your fingers, you can wear disposable gloves.) Chop into bite-sized pieces.
4. Coarsely chop onion.
5. Cut garlic cloves into thin slices.
6. Combine all of the above, and coat liberally with olive oil.
7.Spread out on parchment paper. Bake at 400 degrees F. for 20 or 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
8. Remove from oven when vegetables are all tender, and serve while warm.

Note: This can also be cooked on the grill. Prepare through step 6 then wrap vegetables in well greased aluminum foil, and cook until tender.

Roasting vegetables is a wonderful way to prepare them. 

What is your favorite roasted vegetable?

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(post updated 1/30/21)