Beet and Orange Salad

This Beet and Orange Salad is healthy, delicious and loaded with flavor! It's packed with earthy beets, greens, sweet and tangy oranges, golden raisins, pecans and salty feta! If you're a roasted beet lover you NEED to try this tasty salad recipe!

Prep Time15

Cook Time1 10

Total Time1 25

Course: Salad

Cuisine: American

Keyword: beets, feta cheese, healthy recipe, oranges

Servings: servings

Calories: 443kcal

Author: MaryAnn Dwyer

Ingredients

Salad

2 large beets, ends trimmed and scrubbed
olive oil
kosher salt and black pepper
3 Cara Cara oranges, peel and pith removed and cut into segments
1/4 cup red onion, thinly sliced
4 cups spring mix
4 oz. feta cheese, crumbled
1/2 cup pecan halves
1/3 cup golden raisins

Dressing

1/4 cup olive oil
3 Tbsp. orange juice, freshly squeezed
1 Tbsp. red wine vinegar
1 tsp. honey
1/2 tsp. Dijon mustard
1 tsp. kosher salt
1/2 tsp. black pepper

Instructions

Salad

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Drizzle each beet with some olive oil. Wrap each beet separately in tinfoil and place on baking sheet. Bake for 55-70 minutes or until they're tender when pierced with the tip of a sharp knife.
Remove the beets from the oven to cool. Carefully open each beet (watch the hot steam) and once cool enough to handle you'll peel the skins and then cut the beets into wedges. Sprinkle with kosher salt and pepper to taste. You can place the beets in the fridge to continue to cool.
Next, slice off both the ends of the oranges and then cut away the peel and the pith by following the curve of the orange. Cut along the membrane into segments and set aside.
To assemble the salad, place the spring mix in a large bowl and top with the roasted beet wedges, orange segments, red onion, feta, pecans and golden raisins. Drizzle the dressing over the salad and toss. Serve immediately.

Dressing

Whisk together your olive oil, orange juice, red wine vinegar, honey, Dijon and kosher salt and pepper.

Notes

I used pecans for this salad, but if you prefer walnuts you can substitute.

I also used Cara Cara oranges for this salad, but you could substitute blood oranges or regular oranges. I just like the deep pretty color of the Cara Cara oranges and they're sweeter and less acidic than regular oranges

Today's salad features feta cheese, because I like the saltiness of the feta to balance out the sweetness of the oranges.

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