This super delicious and healthy beet salad with feta cheese and arugula is easy to make and bursting with flavors. A perfect balance of sweet and salty taste makes it a true crowd pleaser!
Why This Salad Works?
- It’s made with fresh and healthy ingredients making it a healthy side dish for any meal.
- You’ll need basic pantry ingredients.
- This salad is bursting with flavors from the amazing salad dressing.
- The perfect balance of sweet and salty flavors makes this salad a true crowd pleaser.
- There’s FETA CHEESE! Cheese makes everything taste better!
- A salad that’s very flexible. You can easily customize it to suit your taste. Adding extra ingredients like fresh chopped dill leaves, pickled onion slices, sliced cucumber or orange segments can be done. Use any nuts like pine nuts, candied pecans, almonds.
- Use any kind of beets you like – boiled, oven roasted or steamed in instant pot. It works great!
- Make it all year long and enjoy. It makes a great addition to the dinner table.
Ingredients Needed
Below picture shows all you need to make healthy beet and feta cheese salad –
Basic Salad Ingredients – this salad needs simple basic ingredients – beets, feta cheese, any salad green (arugula or baby spinach works best), toasted walnuts.
Basic Salad Dressing – this simple homemade salad dressing is made using olive oil, honey or maple syrup, balsamic vinegar, garlic powder, and crushed pepper. Note – I did not add salt as feta cheese was salty enough to season the salad. Please taste test and add salt if required at the end.
How To Make Beet And Feta Cheese and Arugula Salad?
How To Cook Beets?
First step is prepping beetroot. You can choose to make any kind – steamed in instant pot, roasted in oven or boiled.
I personally love the texture of instant pot beets. It works great for salads.
Oven roasted is not bad either.
Once beetroot is cooked, remove it and let it rest for few seconds. Peel off the skin and slice it up.
We are now ready to get that healthy arugula beet salad made.
Toasting Nuts
This recipe uses walnuts. You can use any other nuts of your choice like pine nuts, almonds.
Spread nuts onto a baking tray. Toast it in oven at 350 degree Fahrenheit for about 3 to 4 minutes. Nuts will burn pretty fast. Keep a close eye and remove it promptly.
What Goat Cheese Is Best?
It’s always best to buy block or cubed fresh goat/feta cheese. It tastes better and has great fresh flavor to it. Use your hands to crumble feta cheese and add it to the salad. If you find it hard to crumbled feta with fingers, use a fork and break it up roughly and add it to the salad.
Simple Salad Dressing
In a bowl whisk together olive oil, honey or maple syrup, balsamic vinegar, Dijon mustard, garlic powder, crushed pepper.
Assemble Salad
In a large plate or salad bowl start arranging the salad. Spread fresh arugula or any other salad greens.
Spread sliced beetroot over arugula.
Crumble and throw in the toasted walnuts.
Crumbled feta cheese and pile it up on the salad.
When you are ready to serve the salad, drizzle the dressing on top and serve immediately.
Substitutions And Variations
Salad Greens – Arugula is great choice for beet feta salad. With it’s mustard like strong flavors works great with sweet and subtle beetroot.
Instead of arugula you can use baby spinach, fresh dill leaves, lettuce, kale.
Nuts – Toasted walnuts is cheap and great. Other options for using nuts in arugula beet salad are – toasted nuts, toasted almonds, candied walnuts, candies pecans, toasted pumpkin seeds, roasted pistachios.
Fruits – fresh orange segments are absolutely delicious with beetroot salad. Try adding in watermelon cubes as well. It works. Pomegranate seeds or even fresh berries like raspberries are some more options.
Other Vegetables – sliced cucumbers, cubed butternut squash(cooked), sliced onions or pickled onions, thin slices of apple or roasted pumpkin.
More Additions – boiled chickpeas, pearly couscous.
Protein – try adding proteins like boiled chicken, cooked shrimp to beet salad with feta cheese.
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Healthy Arugula Beet Salad With Feta Cheese
Ingredients
For Salad –
- 3 beetroots cooked and sliced
- 6 oz baby arugula
- 1/3 cup walnuts toasted (or any other nuts)
- 1/3 cup feta cheese crumbled
For Salad Dressing –
- 3 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon honey or maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar ordinary, not aged or glazed
- 1 ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- 2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 2 teaspoon crushed pepper
- Salt as needed taste first and add only if needed
Instructions
How To Cook Beets?
- First step is prepping beetroot. You can choose to make any kind – steamed in instant pot, roasted in oven or boiled.
- I personally love the texture of instant pot beets. It works great for salads.
- Oven roasted is not bad either.
- Once beetroot is cooked, remove it and let it rest for few seconds. Peel off the skin and slice it up.
- We are now ready to get that healthy arugula beet salad made.
Toasting Nuts
- This recipe uses walnuts. You can use any other nuts of your choice like pine nuts, almonds.
- Spread nuts onto a baking tray. Toast it in oven at 350 degree Fahrenheit for about 3 to 4 minutes. Nuts will burn pretty fast. Keep a close eye and remove it promptly.
What Goat Cheese Is Best?
- It’s always best to buy block or cubed fresh goat/feta cheese. It tastes better and has great fresh flavor to it. Use your hands to crumble feta cheese and add it to the salad. If you find it hard to crumbled feta with fingers, use a fork and break it up roughly and add it to the salad.
Simple Salad Dressing
- In a bowl whisk together olive oil, honey or maple syrup, balsamic vinegar, Dijon mustard, garlic powder, crushed pepper.
Assemble Salad
- In a large plate or salad bowl start arranging the salad. Spread fresh arugula or any other salad greens.
- Spread sliced beetroot over arugula.
- Crumble and throw in the toasted walnuts.
- Crumbled feta cheese and pile it up on the salad.
- When you are ready to serve the salad, drizzle the dressing on top and serve immediately.
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Notes
- You can choose to make any kind – steamed in instant pot, roasted in oven or boiled.
- While toasting nuts, keep a close eye and remove it promptly. Nuts will burn pretty fast.Â
- It’s always best to buy block or cubed fresh goat/feta cheese. It tastes better and has great fresh flavor.
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