Let's Make a Roasted Beet & Citrus Salad

feta cheese

🥗Healthier: goat cheese

💰Cheaper: cottage cheese

Goat cheese offers a similar tangy flavor with fewer calories.

walnuts

🥗Healthier: pumpkin seeds

💰Cheaper: sunflower seeds

Pumpkin seeds provide healthy fats and are often less expensive.

Pour good quality olive oil into a bowl.

Add apple cider vinegar, honey, dijon mustard, fresh garlic, salt, and pepper to the bowl and stir.

Store the dressing in the fridge until ready to use.

Trim, peel, and cut the golden and purple beets separately to avoid staining.

Drizzle olive oil over the golden beets and season with salt and pepper.

In a separate bowl, drizzle olive oil over the purple beets and season with salt and pepper.

Spread the golden and purple beets on separate sides of a well-greased sheet pan.

Roast the beets in the oven until tender and browned on the edges.

Remove the beets from the oven and let them cool to room temperature.

Heat a skillet and add olive oil, water, orange zest, walnuts, and salt.

Stir the walnuts frequently to prevent sticking or burning, adjusting the heat as needed.

Once the walnuts brown slightly and smell nutty, remove them from the heat and let cool to room temperature.

Lay out arugula on a platter.

Place sections of oranges and grapefruit around the arugula as desired.

Sprinkle the roasted beets on top of the salad.

Add toasted walnuts and crumbled goat cheese on top.

Drizzle the homemade honey mustard vinaigrette over the salad.

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