RCP: Warm Beet and Spinach Salad

This salad is one of the more wine friendly salads I have tried. I paired it with a 2005 Joseph Drouhin Savigny les Beaune

Source: Eating Well Feb. 2009

Warm Beet and Spinach Salad

8 cups baby spinach
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 cup thinly sliced red onion
2 plum tomatoes, chopped
2 tablespoons slice Kalamata olives
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
1 clove garlic, minced
2 cups steamed beet wedges or slices 1/2 to 1 " thick (1 to 2.5 cm)
2 tablespoons balxamic vinegar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper

1. place spinach in a large bowl
2. Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add onion and cook, stirring, until starting to soften, about 2 minutes. Add tomatoes, olives, parsley, and galic and cook, stirring until the tomatoes begin to break down, about 3 minutes. Add beets, vinegar, salt and pepper and cook, stirring until the beets are heated through, about 1 minute or more. Add the beet mixture to the spinach and toss to combine. Serve warm.

Yum! I love beets. Thanks for posting this recipe, Tom.

[Jenise]

Tom, that looks great. Would never have thought to use warm beets to make a wilted salad, but now that I've read your recipe it sounds like something that just had to happen. Can't wait to try this, thanks. Btw, golden beets would look really great with the olives and tomatoes wouldn't they? For that it might be best to use a blonde vinegar, not balsamic though.

Tom, that looks great. Would never have thought to use warm beets to make a wilted salad, but now that I've read your recipe it sounds like something that just had to happen. Can't wait to try this, thanks. Btw, golden beets would look really great with the olives and tomatoes wouldn't they? For that it might be best to use a blonde vinegar, not balsamic though.

Hi Jenise,

I think there is such a thing as white balsamic vinegar that would go well with golden beets. By the way, Burpee's golden beets are a favorite of mine that I usually grow in my garden. I just love the golden sauce they make when you cook them. My wife actually puts extra spinach in her bowl and wilts it in the microwave before adding the warm beet mixture. I prefer the warm beets on the unwilted spinach myself and letting the heat of the beets wilt the salad slightly.