Beet Salad with Grilled Leicester Cheese

This salad idea came about after one of my friends bought some beetroot - because she obviously knows the "goodness" of this vegetable - but she didn't know what to do with it. We tried to search for one and created this healthy and refreshing salad menu on our dining table.    

Containing the powerful antioxidant betacyanin, which gives beetroot its deep red hue, this vegetable purifies the blood and has anti-carcinogenic properties. Research shows it boosts the body’s natural defenses in the liver, regenerating immune cells. Also contains silica, vital for healthy skin, fingernails, ligaments, tendons and bones. Beetroot contains sodium, potassium, phosphorus, calcium, iodine, iron, copper, Vitamins B1, B2, B3, B6 and C. Each capsule provides approximately 1-2mg of elemental iron.

Beet is believed to be native of the Mediterranean region of Europe and probably Western Asia. It has been used as a vegetable for the last 2000 years, even by early Greeks and Romans. It was so appreciated by ancients that it was offered on silver to Apollo in his temple at Delphi.

Beet Salad with Grilled Leicester Cheese

(lettuce, pear/apple, avocado, beet (lightly cooked/steamed), wholemeal bread, red leicester cheese)

For the salad sauce: balsamic vinaigrette, olive oil, salt and pepper

From Kitchen Runaway