Susan to the Rescue: Shredded Beets with Celery and Dates Video

Susan suggests using gloves and wax paper when cutting beets


Hi. This is Susan Westmoreland in the Good Housekeeping Test Kitchens. Tonight we're gonna make something I love. It's a Beet Salad, but this beets are raw and they're shredded, and you just toss them with a little bit of vinegar, lemon juice, or whatever you like, whatever is good, you can either use a fruit vinegar or just straight lemon juice, and they get tossed with dates and some chopped celery. But the trick tonight is peeling with this. First trick is getting the wrap taken away, peeling the beets without getting-- I'm not going to surgery, I'm gonna peel beets. So, what we're gonna do is take this beet and just cut it off its thing and then to peel it, so I won't get all of this blood on my hands and come to work the next day looking like I committed a crime, we're just-- we're just gonna take-- or you could use a vegetable peel for this or that. So, you're gonna take it and you can see I'm gonna get the stuff all over my hands by the end and then we'll just take these and shred. It's really easy. Raw beets are delicious, they're really, really sweet. They have a little bit of an Earthy flavor and I have to say I have an editor who does not like beets and this recipe convinced her that beets were really okay. So, really simple. I think it's 5 ingredients. I would serve this with just like a piece of grilled or sautéed chicken breast or some fish. It would make a great bed for a piece of steamed fish which should be really, really yummy. Squeeze a little bit of extra lemon over the top. So, you see this. And then I can just-- so you see look at me, this would be my hands otherwise. I'm just gonna finish peeling that. And then I can just like take this and throw it away or I can just go right here with my beets. And of course I have a grater, it does pretty quickly. If you were doing a ton of this, you could do it in a food processor, but for two beets it's really kinda not worth taking the processor out. This is really gorgeous and that will be really pretty, your celery will get stain pink. Everything that touches it will get stain pink. But just contain to it a bowl and you'll be fine and you'll have a delicious salad that, I bet, even your kids are gonna like. This is Susan Westmoreland in the Good Housekeeping Kitchen helping you take back dinner time.

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