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Winter Lettuce Salad with Roasted Beets and Shallot Sherry Vinaigrette

The truth of the matter is that I don't even like beets, but I am surrounded by people who do, and this salad is so delicious and seasonal all through the late fall to late spring. The riot of colors depending on what kind of beets you can score is gorgeous, and the sugar and acid in the oranges really makes the flavors pop. I call for radicchio and escarole here, two hearty lettuces, but any lettuces will work except romaine and iceberg. If you don't have sherry vinegar but have a little bit of sherry, you can sub cider vinegar and add the touch of sherry. The vinegar really makes it.

Recipe courtesy Tamara Reynolds
Show: Married with Dishes Episode: Married with Dishes

Photo: Winter Lettuce Salad with Roasted Beets and Shallot Sherry Vinaigrette

TOTAL TIME: 55 min
Prep: 15 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 40 min
 
YIELD: 6 servings
LEVEL: Easy

ingredients

  • CCCONSP16 medium or 4 large heirloom beets, such as Chiogga, candy, white or Bull's Blood, washed, tops removed, halved if large
  • Salt
  • 1 small head radicchio or Treviso, washed, dried and cut or torn into pieces
  • 1 small to medium head hearty leaf lettuce, such as escarole, green or red leaf, chicory, washed, dried and cut or torn into pieces
  • 2 large seedless oranges
    • SHALLOT SHERRY VINAIGRETTE:
    • 1 shallot, diced
    • 1 teaspoon sugar
    • Pinch salt
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    Directions

    Cook's Note: You can reserve the beet greens for use in other dishes, such as South by Southwest Greens.

    Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.

    Fit the beets snugly into a pie plate or casserole pan and pour in enough water to cover the beets by one-third. Scatter some salt over the top and cover tightly with tin foil. Bake until soft but not falling apart, 30 to 40 minutes, depending on size and density. Check them with a fork for doneness.

    Combine the lettuces in a salad bowl. The mix of the bitter radicchio and the heartier escarole is not only physically gorgeous, but it tastes great too!

    Cut the ends off both oranges, and then cut the peel off in a downward motion all the way around. Save the peels, as you will use the juice in them for the dressing. Thinly slice the oranges and toss into the lettuces.

    Let the beets cool before peeling. I like to cut them into quarters, and then slices from there because I like the look, but any reasonable bite-size slice works. Toss them into the salad.

    For the shallot sherry dressing: Put the shallots into a container with a tight-fitting lid so you can really shake it for all its worth-hand emulsifying, if you will.

    Add the sugar and a good pinch salt, followed by the olive oil, vinegar and any juice that you can squeeze out of the orange peels left over. Cover the container and really shake it so it becomes completely combined and cloudy. Taste for balance; you want it to be balanced between sweet and tart, so if it needs more salt or sugar, feel free to add it.

    Dress the salad, toss with (clean!!) hands, grind a couple of grinds of pepper over it and serve.

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