Red as a Beetroot

Beetroot is the tap root part of the beet plant and the beet leaves can be eaten in salad or cooked Iike spinach.  Both parts are healthy; a source of iron, folate, magnesium, vitamin C, potassium, manganese and fibre.

It can be used in many ways; pickled, roasted, grilled, blended into soup or juice, made into a dip, used in risotto or grated in a salad. Beetroot can even be used to make a red velvet cake (with the addition of chocolate).

M&S sell beetroot wraps.

        

I enjoyed an Arcobaleno (meaning rainbow in Italian) pizza topped with tomato, spinach, avocado, chilli threads, purple basil and pink beetroot "beet balls" at Zizzis. 

I won't beet about the bush ... It was delicious!