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Beet Salad with Spinach, Cashews, and Goat Cheese

Published: Jun 05, 2018 | 43 Comments

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Beet Salad with Spinach, Cashews, Cranberries, and Goat Cheese with honey, lemon and olive oil dressing.  Healthy, gluten free, Mediterranean-style salad, packed with fiber and nutrients.  Goat cheese adds a touch of creaminess, while the cashews add a bit of crunch to this healthy beet salad.

healthy spinach salad with beets, healthy beet salad with nuts

Beets have long been my secret love. I eat them all the time, and my husband jokes that if there is ever a shortage of beets it will be because I bought too many.  Not only do I like how the beets taste, they are so good for you – you can read more about the benefits of beets in this article.

I really should share more beet recipes, but the truth is I often eat beets plain. I boil them in the water until they are soft (about 20-30 minutes in boiling water), let them cool, peel them, and then I just eat them with some olive oil. And, often with some goat cheese.

So, this time I decided to cook the beets not so plain. I made a beet salad. With goat cheese. And with spinach, cranberries, cashews, and a homemade salad dressing with honey, lemon and olive oil.

Ingredients for beet salad

You only need 5 ingredients for this delicious beet salad and here they are:

  • beets , cooked, sliced
  • baby spinach
  • cashews , roasted
  • dried cranberries
  • goat cheese

Honey-Lemon Salad Dressing ingredients

And the beet salad dressing requires only 3 ingredients:

  • olive oil
  • honey
  • lemon juice freshly squeezed

beet spinach salad, healthy beet salad

How to make beet salad with spinach and cashews

  1. Add baby spinach, sliced cooked beets, roasted cashews, and dried cranberries to a large salad bowl.
  2. Combine salad dressing ingredients in a different bowl: olive oil, honey, lemon juice. Whisk until combined.
  3. Pour the salad dressing over the beet salad, and toss to combine. Top with crumbled goat cheese.

This beet salad is so delicious and has so many ingredients that are good for you – I really recommend you make it!  It’s so simple but has so much flavor!  This salad is healthy, gluten free, full of fiber.

beet and goat cheese salad, beet and spinach salad

This spinach and beet salad is a perfect lunch or snack.  It also looks really pretty, and will make a beautiful side dish to any dinner.

How to cook beets

The easiest and the best way to cook beets is by boiling them. Here is how you do it:

boiling beets in water

  1. Place raw beets in a large sauce pan and cover with water.
  2. Bring to boil – it usually takes 10 minutes for the water with beets in my pan to start boiling.  Once the water starts to boil, boil the beets for 20-30 minutes, depending on the thickness and the size of your beets.
  3. Next, carefully pour the hot water out and let the beets cool off (without lid on) for another 20 minutes. It’s important to pour the water out and remove the lid when cooling off the beets, otherwise they will get too soft.
  4. After beets have cooled off, use butter knife to easily peel the skin off them just like shown in the photo below:

peeling the skin off the beets with the butter knife

After that, beets are ready to be placed in an air tight container (or zip-lock) and be kept in the refrigerator.

Note: While I usually boil all the beets for 20 minutes, you might have to boil them 10 minutes longer, especially if your beets are large, because the centers of large beets might not cook through in 20 minutes. But for small or medium size beets – 20 min is perfect!

healthy beet salad, healthy spinach salad

Other beet recipes:

  • Goat cheese is not the only cheese that goes great with beets in a salad.  Gorgonzola cheese tastes amazing with beets too: Arugula Salad with Beets and Gorgonzola cheese.
  • Yes, I made the soup with beets, and it was delicious!  I used Kefir to make this soup creamy: Beet Soup.
  • And, yes, I made pasta with the goat cheese and beet sauce, too.  It’s of a beautiful bright maroon color (all natural color, of course, from beets): Beet and Goat Cheese Fettuccine. 

Are you convinced yet that I love beets?!

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Beet Salad with Spinach and Cashews
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Beet Salad with Spinach, Cashews, and Goat Cheese
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Total Time
30 mins
 

Beet Salad with Spinach, Cashews, Cranberries, and Goat Cheese with honey, lemon and olive oil dressing.  Healthy, gluten free, Mediterranean-style salad, packed with fiber and nutrients.

Course: Salad
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 326 kcal
Author: Julia
Ingredients
Beet Salad:
  • 2 beets , cooked, sliced
  • 4 oz baby spinach
  • 1/2 cup cashews , roasted
  • 1/4 cup dried cranberries
  • 2 oz goat cheese
Honey-Lemon salad dressing:
  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons honey
  • 2 tablespoons lemon juice freshly squeezed
Instructions
  1. In a salad bowl, combine baby spinach, sliced cooked beets, roasted cashews, and dried cranberries.  (You can cook the beets by boiling them in water for about 20-30 minutes, letting them cool, peeling them, and then slicing them).    Do not add goat cheese yet.

  2. In a separate small bowl, combine salad dressing ingredients: olive oil, honey, lemon juice. Whisk until combined.

  3. Pour the salad dressing over the beet salad, and mix.  Do not add all of the salad dressing at once.  Add just enough to coat the salad to your taste.  You might use all of the dressing - you might not.   Top your beet salad with crumbled goat cheese.

Nutrition Facts
Beet Salad with Spinach, Cashews, and Goat Cheese
Amount Per Serving
Calories 326 Calories from Fat 207
% Daily Value*
Fat 23g35%
Saturated Fat 5g31%
Cholesterol 6mg2%
Sodium 109mg5%
Potassium 397mg11%
Carbohydrates 25g8%
Fiber 2g8%
Sugar 17g19%
Protein 7g14%
Vitamin A 2820IU56%
Vitamin C 12.9mg16%
Calcium 60mg6%
Iron 2.5mg14%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Filed Under: Beets, Cashew, Cranberries, Gluten Free, Goat cheese, Healthy, Nuts, Recipe, Salads, Spinach, Vegetables Published: Jun 05, 2018 43 Comments

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  1. Brenda

    Dec 13, 2020 at 4:47 pm

    Looks good! Do the cashews need to be unsalted?

    Reply
    • Julia

      Dec 21, 2020 at 10:50 pm

      You can use either salted or unsalted cashews. I used unsalted cashews.

      Reply
  2. Maureen

    Nov 03, 2020 at 9:10 pm

    This looks delicious. How are you cooking the beets? Are they roasted?

    Reply
    • Julia

      Nov 14, 2020 at 8:13 pm

      Thank you, Maureen! I used fresh beets and boiled them. I boil beets for about 30 minutes. You can also use roasted beets.

      Reply
  3. Lori

    Oct 24, 2020 at 3:27 pm

    Didn’t have spinach so cut up Swiss chard & kale from my garden.

    Reply
  4. Sheryl

    Oct 19, 2020 at 7:57 pm

    Yummy salad that’s SO GOOD for you. I used pickled beets, feta instead of goat cheese and did not toast cashews….it was still delicious! Will definitely make it again.

    Reply
  5. Renee

    Oct 06, 2020 at 8:38 pm

    Love this salad! My family are not fans of beets, but I still made it and they enjoyed it.

    Reply
  6. Tana

    Oct 03, 2020 at 5:02 pm

    How many people will this serve?

    Reply
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