Recipe Description:
This roasted beet salad recipe features a lovely mixture of avocados, beets, rice vinegar and orange zest sprinkled with homemade orange dressing. So tasty you wouldn’t know it has only 120 calories per serving.
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Ingredients:
Orange Dressing
- 1/4 cup fresh orange juice
- 2 tsp. white balsamic vinegar
- 1/2 tsp. orange zest
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/8 tsp. black pepper
Salad
- 2 red beets
- 1/4 cup seasoned rice vinegar
- 1 ripe, fresh avocado, halved, pitted, peeled and quartered
- 1 bag of mixed salad greens
- orange zest (for garnish)
Instructions:
- To prepare dressing, in small bowl, combine orange juice, vinegar, orange zest, salt and pepper. Whisk to blend. Set aside.
- Wash beets and trim off stems.
- Place beets in a small pan and add two tablespoons of water.
- Cover pan with foil and roast in a 350 degrees F oven for 50 minutes.
- Check beets' doneness by piercing with fork. Fork should go in easily with a little resistance.
- Remove from oven. Cool.
- Peel beets and cut into 1/4-inch chunks
- set aside.
- Dip avocado in rice vinegar.
- Divide greens among serving plates. Top each serving with an avocado quarter and spoon 1/4 of the chopped beets over each avocado. Drizzle dressing over all. Garnish with orange zest.
Notes & Tips:
Tip: To make orange zest, use fine grater and grate off only orange color of skin. There also are zest tools that you scrape on orange skin to make zest.
Nutrition Facts
4 servings per recipe
Serving Size 1 serving (168g)
| Amount Per Serving | ||
|---|---|---|
| Calories | 100 | |
| % Daily Value* | ||
| Total Fat 6g | 7% | |
| Saturated Fat 1g | 4% | |
| Trans Fat 0g | - | |
| Polyunsaturated Fat 0.5g | - | |
| Monounsaturated Fat 3.5g | - | |
| Cholesterol 0mg | - | |
| Sodium 350mg | 15% | |
| Total Carbohydrate 11g | 4% | |
| Dietary Fiber 5g | 17% | |
| Total Sugars 5g | - | |
| Includes 0g Added Sugars | 0% | |
| Protein 3g | - | |
| Vitamin D 0mcg | 0% | |
| Calcium 67mg | 6% | |
| Iron 1mg | 6% | |
| Potassium 343mg | 8% | |
| Vitamin A 4mcg | 0% | |
| Vitamin C 16mg | 20% | |
| Vitamin E 0.82mg | 6% | |
| Vitamin K 8mcg | 6% | |
| Thiamin 0.04mg | 4% | |
| Riboflavin 0.07mg | 6% | |
| Niacin 1mg | 8% | |
| Vitamin B6 0.14mg | 8% | |
| Folate 78mcg DFE | 20% | |
| (0mcg folic acid) | - | |
| Vitamin B12 0mcg | 0% | |
| Pantothenic Acid 0.61mg | 10% | |
| Choline 9mg | 2% | |
| Phosphorus 39mg | 4% | |
| Magnesium 22mg | 6% | |
| Zinc 0.39mg | 4% | |
| Selenium 0mcg | 0% | |
| Copper 0.11mg | 10% | |
| Manganese 0.19mg | 8% | |
*The % Daily Value tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
