My previous blog post Beet Juice! Beet Juice! Beet Juice! A Powerful Performance Booster!? focused on the benefits of drinking beet juice to possibly enhance your workout performance and extend stamina! Well, you can drink and eat your beets too!
In addition to the ability to workout longer, harder and perhaps stronger, how about this following infographic about how it can help prevent wrinkles! Beets are making us stronger AND younger!
In that post you’ll see I added the entire beet, including the beet greens, to my beet juice. The leafy greens of the beet is very nutritious, containing protein, zinc, fiber, vitamin B6, magnesium, potassium, copper and manganese as well vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium and iron! Read here for more about Beet Greens Health Benefits! They are ranked number 4, coming in before Spinach on this health site: The 7 Most Nutritious Greens where I found the graphic below. When you go to that site, you can read the many reasons why beet greens are great. It mentions another aspect to enhancing stamina and athletic performance, quoted here:
Beet greens are a good source of iron, which is essential for oxygen transport in the blood, and in myoglobin in our muscles. Iron deficiency causes fatigue, and eating beet greens is a good way to increase your iron levels, resulting in more energy.
Boom! So let’s roast the beets! For this recipe, I cut off the greens as I will saute them with olive oil separately and share in another blog. Clean and place beets in their own foil each and pour a bit of olive oil over them.
You can add fresh rosemary, oregano, thyme or basil if you’d like, or simply leave them as is.
I squeezed a bit of an orange over one of the red beets I added rosemary, giving it a zesty addition.
Close foil and roast for about an hour at 375F.
Beautiful! I could eat this just as it is. Perfect flavor! This is a golden beet and I found a blog postingLivinggirllivingfoods.com the nutrients and health benefits are similar for golden as they are for red.
Dice or slice them up, add your favorite nuts such as pine nuts or here I added pistachios.
And beets always go great with goat cheese, a delicious added protein boost, which I mention in a earlier blog posting Protein Packed Snack of Goat Cheese and Walnuts.
So if you’re out on a hot date or home hoping the night goes on and on… be sure to include some beets in your meal and keep the stamina going!
| Prep Time | 5 minutes |
| Cook Time | 1 hour |
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- 3 beets red or golden
- 1-2 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 cup pistachios or pine nuts - this is optional
- 1/2 cup crumbled goat cheese optional
Ingredients
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- Preheat oven at 375F. Clean beets and place in foil to be wrapped individually. Pour olive oil over each beet. You can add rosemary, thyme, oregano or basil at this part but it is optional.
- Roast in oven for about an hour.
- Beets should be soft through to middle. Slice or dice and serve with pistachios and goat cheese. You can also sprinkle with oregano and basil.