Healthy Arugula Beet Salad With Feta Cheese

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?

• A healthy side dish that can be paired with 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.
• Cheese makes everything taste better!
• You can easily customize it to suit your taste. Adding extra ingredients like freshly chopped dill leaves, pickled onion slices, and sliced cucumber or orange segments can be done. Use any nuts like pine nuts, candied pecans, or almonds.

Ingredients

Basic Salad Ingredients – this salad needs simple basic ingredients – beets, feta cheese, any salad green (arugula or baby spinach works best), and 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.

Salad variations

1. Substitute arugula with mustard leaves, baby spinach, fresh dill leaves, lettuce, or kale.
2. Use any of these nuts – toasted nuts, toasted almonds, candied walnuts, candies pecans, toasted pumpkin seeds, roasted pistachios.
3. Add orange segments, watermelon cubes, pomegranate, or fresh berries like raspberries.
4. Add sliced cucumbers, cubed butternut squash(cooked), sliced onions or pickled onions, and thin slices of apple or roasted pumpkin.
5. Include boiled chickpeas, and pearly couscous for extra body for the salad.
6. Add proteins like boiled chicken, cooked shrimp to beet salad with feta cheese.

Step-by-step instructions

Cook beets

1. You can choose to cook beets in numerous ways, steamed in an instant pot, roasted in an oven, or boiled on a stovetop.
2. Once the beetroot is cooked, remove it and let it rest for a few seconds. Peel off the skin and slice it up.
3. We are now ready to get that healthy arugula beet salad made.

Toast nuts

Spread nuts onto a baking tray. Toast it in the oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 3 to 4 minutes. Nuts will burn pretty fast. Keep a close eye and remove it promptly.

Salad dressing

In a bowl whisk together olive oil, honey or maple syrup, balsamic vinegar, Dijon mustard, garlic powder, and crushed pepper.

Assemble salad

1. In a large plate or salad bowl start arranging the salad. Spread fresh arugula or any other salad greens.
2. Spread sliced beetroot over arugula.
3. Crumble and throw in the toasted walnuts.
4. Crumbled feta cheese and pile it up on the salad.
5. When you are ready to serve the salad, drizzle the dressing on top and serve immediately.

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Healthy Arugula Beet Salad With Feta Cheese

Jyothi Rajesh

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!

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 20 minutes mins

Course Side Dish, side salad, Sides

Cuisine American

Servings 4 servings

Calories 265

Ingredients

  

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For Salad –

• ▢ 3 beetroots cooked and sliced
• ▢ 6 oz baby arugula
• ▢ ⅓ cup walnuts toasted (or any other nuts)
• ▢ ⅓ 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. 
• It’s always best to buy block or cubed fresh goat/feta cheese. It tastes better and has great fresh flavor.

Nutritional Info – Please keep in mind that nutritional information provided is only a rough estimate and can vary greatly based on products used.

Nutrition

Calories: 265kcalCarbohydrates: 17gProtein: 6gFat: 21gSaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 11mgSodium: 231mgPotassium: 413mgFiber: 3gSugar: 12gVitamin A: 1082IUVitamin C: 9mgCalcium: 153mgIron: 2mg

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