Beets offer up a rainbow of flavors, textures, shapes, and hues. From flavors ranging from strong earthy to sweet sugar, textures are deliciously crisp and crunchy. Shapes include round beets and elongated ones with colors including red, white, gold, and yellow. Here, Chef Jamie Simpson shares ideas about three creative ways to plate them and place them in glasses.
At the Bar: Beet Soda With Lemon Verbena
At a past Valentine’s Day dinner, Chef Jamie collaborated with other culinary professionals to pair cocktails with desserts, focusing on the gorgeous beet.
Fine Dining: Perfectly Poached Beet Pastry
This beauty contains a crème anglaise, pastry cream—and, of course, a perfectly poached beet—garnished with a puffed red quinoa coated in dark chocolate from Valrhona.
Country Club Dining: Red Velvet Cake Pop
Or is it? This is really a beet salad that’s disguised as the cake in the recipe’s title.
More About Beets
In need of beets? The Chef’s Garden offers a range of varieties, including:
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Beet blush
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Beet of the night
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Bulls blood
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Candy stripe beet
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Gold beet
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Red beet
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Sunrise beet blush
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Sunset beet blush
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Mixed bets
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Mixed beet blush
We hope you enjoyed this installment of Food Plating Techniques!