This is a salad that can easily become a major ingredient for your meal. Or you can simplify it by making it as a smaller portion to go as a powerful side kick to your major meal. Your taste buds would thank you! Beets are some of the underestimated gem root vegetables packed with powerful nutrients for your skin, bones, brain. Betaine in beets supports our liver health and helps get rid of by-products of our body’s natural functioning and any other toxins.
Beets with Salad Greens Recipe
And here are a few power points WHY this salad is worthy your attention.
Power Greens Trio – Chard, Kale and Spinach
Chard and Spinach are the powerhouse of phytonutrients that have health promotional and disease prevention properties. Chard is loaded with Vitamin C! Research shows that regular consumption of foods rich in this water-soluble vitamin help maintain normal connective tissue, prevent iron deficiency, and also help the human body develop resistance against infectious agents by boosting immunity.
And remember Vitamin K benefits, too! This vitamin is essential in bone formation and strengthening.
Beets Are the “Magic” Root
This is yet another powerhouse of vitamins and phytochemicals. Folates, Vitamin C, Vitamin A, B-complex vitamins just to mention.
And get this: being a rich source of glycine betaine, a phytochemical compound that lowers the levels of homocystein (one of the toxic metabolites that our body produces), beets are worth eating as often as you can! High levels of homocysteine in the blood result in the development of coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke and peripheral vascular diseases.
Eat your BEETS!
This Beets Salad Is Low Caloric
It gives you plenty of room for your favorite choice of protein to go with a meal.
- 4 Cups of Mixed Greens: Chard, Spinach, Kale
- 4 Medium Beets, cubed
- 1/2 Apple, cubed
- 2 Cups of Sauteed Mashrooms
- 4 Tsp Balsamic Vinegar
- Pepper to taste
- 1. Sautee mushrooms in butter or olive oil until they are soft. I usually do a big batch of them and keep them in the fridge for add-ons in salads, sandwiches, and soups.
- 2. Arrange greens on a plate
- 3. Add cubed beets and apples into the middle of the greens salad.
- 4. Add sauteed mushrooms to the mix.
- 5. Pour Balsamic vinegar in the middle of the salad.
- 1. I do not use any other spices on this salad. Balsamic adds the amplification for the tastes arranged in this simple salad.
- 2. You can have this salad with the protein of your choice: Fish, Chicken, Tofu – whatever your taste buds desire at that particular meal.
22 thoughts on “Refreshing Beets And Greens Salad with Your Favorite Proteins”
Not my thing.. looks disgusting, but my mother in law loves the sound of it… forwarded it.. thanks!
Wow, Mya,
You really and passionately dislike beets – the choice of words display it vividly.
The image is not that attractive, as it was one of my first shots long time ago. These days, I learned how to display food yummishly.
But beets are great for your overall health, SKIN health, too!
There are some things that take time to develop a taste for.
For me it was AVOCADOS! I NEVER had them in my life until I was in late twenties. I did not like them at all!
Now, I can eat quacamole!
That salad spoke to me because it had all the vegetables I love and especially beets… I might make some this weekend and enjoy it all…. Delicious!
I love salads so much. And this one looks so delicious and healthy. Great to know that this is a low calorie stuff as well. Would love to try this one for sure. Thanks for the yummy idea.
This looks so simple but delicious. I love beets especially in salads.
I could eat beets all day long. This looks really delicious! And definitely healthy!
I’m going to plant beets this year and make this salad. Yum!! Printing the recipe.
What a great way to get lots of veggies in. Thanks for sharing!
Ooooo this looks pretty tasty!!! I’m always looking for new things to put beets in!
Thanks for sharing the recipe! I love low-cal salads. 🙂
i never see like this food lol i want to try it i think this is a good taste , thank you for the recipe i hope my hubby would like this
Oh I could eat this right now, looks so tempting and healthy too. Love founding out about food tips.
I just bought some baby spinach for my husband’s salads. I wonder if he would enjoy beets. He loves to try new things.
Beets are so good ingredient, yummy flavor goes well with sweet and savory applications. Thanks for sharing your recipe.
I am not a big beet fan, but I’m sure beets paired with the right food would get me to try it. If anything counts, the dish looks beautiful.
I have never liked the taste or texture of beets, but my husband loves them. He’d love this recipe
I haven’t had beets in a very long time. I remember eating them when I was growing up. I’ll pass on them for now and focus on digging into the nice green salad.
I love salads. The more colorful, the better they taste! This salad looks delicious-I’ll have to try this recipe.
I happen to live baby spinach leaves and beets so this salad would make me very happy! I don’t think I’ve eaten chard too many times and don’t remember if I like it or not! Guess I’d better get some and try it again in this salad!
I’ve only had the classic “harvard beets”- haven’t tried them in a salad.
It looks so unusual but sounds yummy.I am going to try it, Thank you.
This looks so simple! and delicous! I love that you go ahead and sauté a bunch of mushrooms and save the rest for other recipes. That’s a smart idea.