Roasted Beet Sauce Recipe for Pasta and Pizza is delicious stirred into any pasta or used as a sauce for pizza! It’s also easy to make and can be made ahead or even frozen for later use!
Roasted Beet Sauce is Delicious and Easy to Make!
This recipe takes just a few simple ingredients and most of the prep time is hands-off cooking time. Just chop up a few vegetables, add some salt and spices, and let it roast. Easy!
Pretty Sauce!
Can I just say this sauce is also pretty? It’s a deep magenta that looks as great as it tastes!
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Healthy and Tasty!
The star of this simple recipe is beets. They aren’t just tasty they’re also really good for you! The intense ruby red with a hint of magenta color of beets (looks like Alizarin Crimson paint to me!) is due to their pigments called betalain which is anti-inflammatory. Beets also contain nitrates which is converted into nitric oxide (NO). Nitric oxide is great for cardiovascular function. Long story short, beets can be helpful in reducing blood pressure and atherosclerosis, reducing the risk of diabetes, dementia, among others.
Start by Roasting the Beets
Peel the beet or beets. We’re going to need about a cup cubed. So just peel them and then cut them into quarters. Slice a few shallots into sections about a half-inch thick or use onions if you don’t have shallots on hand. And peel two to three cloves of garlic.
Place the beets, shallots (or onions), and garlic in a small-ish or medium-sized baking dish, drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle on the salt, pepper, and rosemary. Bake at 350 degrees F for about 30 minutes, until the beets are tender.
When finished baking, let everything cool down just a bit and then scoop everything into a high-powered blender. Add the plant-based milk and puree until smooth and creamy. Add more or less milk if needed for the right consistency.
This is delicious as the sauce on a spring flavors pizza! It would also be good in a pasta dish!
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Roasted Beet Sauce Recipe for Pasta and Pizza
Roasted Beet Sauce Recipe for Pasta and Pizza is delicious stirred into any pasta or used as a sauce for pizza! It's also easy to make and can be made ahead or even frozen for later use!
Place the beets, shallots, and garlic in a medium-sized baking dish and drizzle with olive oil.
Sprinkle on the salt, pepper, and rosemary.
Bake at 350 degrees F for about 30 minutes until the beets are tender.
Allow to cool just a bit and then scoop into a high-powered blender. Add about 3/4 cup of plant-based milk. Use more or less milk to get the desired consistency.
Puree until the mixture is very smooth and any beet chunks or pieces are gone.
Use in pasta as a sauce or on pizza.
This sauce recipe can be doubled or tripled as it is. Just taste test for the salt and pepper and adjust to your liking.
Extra sauce can be frozen in any air-tight container for up to a few months.
Nutrition Facts
Roasted Beet Sauce Recipe for Pasta and Pizza
Amount Per Serving (0.25 cup)
Calories 90
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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No need to peel before or after baking. The skin, which is perfectly edible, just seems to disappear during the baking process. The trick to pan-roasted beets is to drop the temperature a bit. I always roast potatoes, Brussels sprouts, carrots, and pretty much all the other veggies at 425 degrees Fahrenheit.
How Does Beetroot Affect Pasta? Beetroot elevates pasta with its natural sweetness, earthy flavors, and, most notably, its bright pink color. This not only makes the dish a visual treat but also infuses it with the health benefits of beets, including fiber, vitamins, and minerals.
Roasting beets deepens their natural sugars while tempering bitterness. Bake whole, wrapped beets at 400°F for 60-75 minutes until easily pierced by a fork. Allow to cool before peeling and juicing. Incorporating roasted beets creates a smoother, mellower, almost nutty-flavored blended juice.
One of the reasons for this is that beets can absorb a lot of minerals from the soil in which they're grown, giving them an earthy and sometimes sweet or bitter flavor, depending on how they're cooked. Beets are delicious roasted, grilled, microwaved, steamed, boiled or air-fried.
Steaming in the oven rather than baking helps preserve more of the healthy vitamins and minerals in beets. This method also helps beets better retain their beautiful, vibrant color.
You can even enjoy them raw, either sliced thinly or grated. Choose beets that feel heavy for their size with fresh, unwilted green leafy tops still attached, if possible. Because dietary nitrates are water-soluble, it's best to avoid boiling beets if you'd like to maximize their nitrate content.
The Bottom Line. Betanin is the beetroot pigment that is absorbed by the body upon eating beets, and as a result, may turn your poop and pee pink or red for up to 48 hours after consumption—a phenomenon called beeturia. It's generally harmless and no cause for concern.
Beets are great for the digestive system because of their effects on gut bacteria health. However, people with sensitive stomachs may experience digestive distress (like gas or bloating) when consuming beets. A mild upset stomach could be the result of the fiber content in beets helping clear the digestive tract.
Storing cooked or roasted beets (how long do they last)
Cooked beets also need to be stored in the refrigerator. They will keep for 5-7 days in an airtight container. Here are some tips for storing cooked beets: Allow the beets to cool completely before storing them.
Yes!Beets are safe for your dog to eat in moderation and are a healthy source of vitamin C, fiber, folate, manganese, and potassium. These vitamins and minerals are good for your dog's digestion and immune system as well as a healthy skin and coat.
It contains high concentrations of red betalains (anti-oxidants), vitamin C, tyrosine, iron and folic acid. Some individuals are unable to metabolize red betanin, leading to the production of red urine (known as beeturia).
Sugar beet alcohol is made from the sticky sweet syrup of the sugar beet known as molasses. The molasses is then distilled to make an extra neutral alcohol. Our sugar beet alcohol 96% alcohol is distilled from 100% GMO free crops. It is also gluten free and complies with EU regulations for use in the food industry.
Beet juice naturally has a slightly earthy taste. We add about 10% pressed apple juice to Beet It to smooth this earthiness. Our Organic Beet juice is free from any added sugar, preservatives, and artificial additives.
Beet red is the color obtained from the roots of red beets (Beta vulgaris L var rubra), as press juice or by aqueous extraction of shredded beet roots; composed of different pigments all belonging to the class betalaine; main coloring principle consists of betacyanins (red) of which betanine accounts for 75-95%; minor ...
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