These delicious recipes are just the beginning of the wonderful things you can do with the planet’s most exuberantly hued root. Few foods are as instantly festive as the earthy-sweet, richly hued beet ...

It caramelizes the sugars in the beets, giving them a sweeter and more concentrated flavor.

Use your Dutch oven to roast beets to tender perfection and serve them over a zippy crème fraîche sauce. Inspired by the dry-roasting method from How to Dress an Egg by Ned Baldwin, Liz Mervosh ...

A refreshing, sweet salad of roasted beets with a spicy horseradish creme fraiche sauce makes for a great salad all year.

This recipe for Roasted Beet and Goat Cheese Salad contains so many of my favorite ingredients. That includes beets, goat cheese and arugula greens plus a savory balsamic vinegar dressing. The whole ...

The jalapeño and cumin in the zhoug bring out the sweet, earthy flavor of the beets, and the cardamom plays well with the citrus in this light and simple meal. Wrapping the beets separately to roast ...

Breana Lai Killeen, M.P.H., RD, is a food editor, recipe developer, farmer and dietitian who has worked in all facets of the food world. She has more than 20 years of experience cooking professionally ...