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Beet Salad with Feta Cheese and Citrus Balsamic Viniagrette

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Colorful Crave-Worthy Salad

Have an aversion to beets? This is the cold beet salad recipe that will make you crave them. Cooked beetroots lightly dressed with a tart citrus-balsamic vinaigrette and topped with crumbled feta cheese and chopped cilantro. It’s an everyday salad disguised as a date-night or dinner party salad.

Mexican Beet Salad with Bottle of Citrus Vinaigrette

A beautiful salad in the colors of the Mexican flag, green, white, and red. If you have never prepared beets before it is far simpler than you may think.

Beet Salad Citrus Balsamic Vinaigrette Recipe

How to Make Beet Salad

First, gather your ingredients.

Ingredients to Make Beet Salad with Citrus Vinaigrette

You will need:

For the Salad

  • 4 medium beets
  • ¾ cup feta cheese
  • 2 tbsp. finely chopped cilantro

For the Vinaigrette

  • Juice of 1 orange
  • Juice of 1 lime
  • 2 tbsp. olive oil
  • 1 tsp. balsamic vinegar
  • 1 tbsp. honey
  • ½ tbsp. dijon mustard
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • 1 clove garlic

Cooking Beets

  • Cut the tops off the beets and discard the tops.
Beet on Cutting Board with Top Cut Off
  • Place the beets in a large pot and cover with 2″ of water. Bring to a boil then reduce to low and cook for 45 minutes until they are fork tender.
Beets Cooking in Pot
  • Set the beets aside and allow to cool.
Beets in Stainless Bowl
  • Peel the beets once they are cool to the touch.
Peeling Beets
  • Cut the beets into 1″ pieces.

Making the Beet Salad Dressing (Vinaigrette)

Make the vinaigrette while the beets are cooking. This gives the flavors of the dressing time to blend.

  • In a small mixing bowl add the orange juice, lime juice, balsamic, vinegar, honey, and dijon mustard.
  • Whisk the ingredients briskly while slowly pouring in the olive oil.
  • Whisk vigorously until the ingredients have combined.
  • Add the chopped garlic and salt. Whisk in incorporate.
  • Taste the dressing and add salt to taste if needed.
  • Set Aside.
Citrus Balsamic Vinaigrette in Stainless Mixing Bowl

Serving the Salad

  • Divide the beets into 4 small salad bowls.
  • Top with crumbled feta cheese and chopped cilantro.
  • Lightly drizzle each salad with vinaigrette. (Shake well before dressing.)
  • Serve lightly chilled.
Mexican Beet Salad

Looking for the best beet salad? This may be it. Provecho!

Beet Salad Citrus Balsamic Vinaigrette Recipe
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Beet Salad Recipe with Feta Cheese and Citrus Balsamic Vinaigrette

Crave-worthy cold beet salad with a citrus balsamic vinaigrette topped with crumbled feta cheese and cilantro. Thought you didn't like beets? It will totally change your mind. It's a delicious, easy healthy salad.
Course Salad
Cuisine Mexican
Keyword beets, citrus dressing, feta cheese, salad
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Servings 4 servings
Calories 168kcal
Author Andrés carnalla

Ingredients

Salad

  • 4 medium beets
  • ¾ cup feta cheese
  • 2 tbsp. finely chopped cilantro

Vinaigrette

  • Juice of 1 orange
  • Juice of 1 lime
  • 2 tbsp. olive oil
  • 1 tsp. balsamic vinegar
  • 1 tbsp. honey
  • ½ tbsp. dijon mustard
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • 1 clove garlic

Instructions

Beets

  • Cut the tops off the beets. Place the beets in a large pot and cover with 2″ of water. Bring to a boil then reduce to low and cook for 45 minutes.
  • Set the beets aside and allow to cool.
  • Peel the beets once they are cool to the touch.
  • Cut the beets into 1″ pieces.

Vinaigrette

  • In a small mixing bowl add the orange juice, lime juice, balsamic, vinager, honey, and dijon mustard.
  • Whisk the ingredients briskly while slowly pouring in the olive oil.
  • Whisk vigorously until the ingredients have combined.
  • Add the chopped garlic and salt. Whisk in incorporate.
  • Taste the dressing and add salt to taste if needed.
  • Set Aside.

Serving

  • Divide the beets in 4 small salad bowls.
  • Top with crumbled feta cheese and chopped cilantro.
  • Lightly dress with vinaigrette dressing.
  • Serve lightly chilled.

Notes

Subsitutions
  • You can substitute goat cheese or ranchero cheese for the feta cheese. The goat cheese will give the salad a sharper taste and the ranchero cheese will give it a milder taste.
  • You can substitute 1 tbsp. lemon juice for the lime juice.
Additions
  • A tsp. of diced red onion in each bowl adds a little kick.

Nutrition

Serving: 1cup | Calories: 168kcal | Carbohydrates: 22g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 6g | Sodium: 368mg | Sugar: 18g

More Mexican Salads

Mexico has many great salads. Here are a few of our favorites. They go far beyond the bagged salad mixes.

  • Cucumber Salad
  • Spicy Fruit Salad
  • Spicy Pineapple Salad
  • Chayote and Zucchini Salad
  • Cactus Salad
  • Avocado Salad

More Salads

  • Salpicón
  • Avocado Salad
  • Spicy Mexican Fruit Salad
  • Tuna Salad

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. julie says

    April 04, 2018 at 9:36 am

    I already love beets, so this looks perfect!

    Reply
  2. Sam says

    July 20, 2018 at 12:34 pm

    5 stars
    Very simple but delicious! Your photos are beautiful and helped follow the recipe. I absolutely loved the dressing I’ll be using that for other salads too, thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  3. Burt says

    February 08, 2020 at 4:50 pm

    4 stars
    You need to be careful not to overcook beets as they are pain to peel otherwise. There must a trick on peeling beets that I’m missing. My dressing wasn’t quite perfect. You need to measure everything out better I guess. Very good overall. My first time cooking beets although I love them. Thank you.

    Reply
  4. Kelly says

    March 17, 2020 at 2:05 pm

    Emailing this beet salad recipe to myself

    Reply
  5. Jessica Watson says

    July 04, 2020 at 9:46 pm

    5 stars
    Made it over the 4th of july and it was definitely delicious! Thank you so much!

    Reply
    • Douglas Cullen says

      July 05, 2020 at 2:48 pm

      Awesome. I glad you liked it!

      Reply
  6. Cassandra Pope says

    October 18, 2020 at 7:58 pm

    5 stars
    Delish!

    Reply
  7. T C says

    December 09, 2020 at 7:20 am

    5 stars
    This is so delicious. One does not even need to follow ‘amounts’. That’s an excellent recipe. Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
  8. Elisabeth says

    December 10, 2020 at 10:55 am

    5 stars
    Best beet salad ever. What a delightful combination with cilantro and feta. But salad dressing is my new favorite for all kinds of salads.

    Reply
  9. M says

    January 10, 2021 at 9:17 am

    are the beets supposed to be fully submerged under water or just 2” of water in the pot?

    Reply
  10. Wil says

    April 19, 2021 at 4:11 pm

    5 stars
    Great! But discard the beet green tops?!!! 😲😩😠 no! Beet greens are delicious cooked! Don’t discard them!

    Reply
  11. Paul says

    August 20, 2021 at 9:26 am

    The recipe is great. The printing of the recipe is too large. It takes three pages to print it.

    Reply
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