With earthy beets, juicy oranges, creamy cheese, and crunchy nuts, this beetroot orange salad is a perfect symphony of textures and flavours.

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

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  • Ingredients You’ll Need
  • How To Make Beetroot Salad
  • Beetroot Orange Salad Recipe

If you’re looking for a refreshing, colourful, savoury salad that is healthy and tasty, this beetroot orange salad is the answer

It’s packed with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, making it a delicious, nourishing choice as a side for festive dinners, or an entree .

Why You’ll Love This Salad

  • vegetarian and gluten-free
  • easy to customize and make
  • a delicious way to eat beetroots
  • wholesome, filling and nourishing
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Ingredients You’ll Need

  • Beetroot: You can steam them, roast them in an oven or buy pre-cooked ones. I highly recommend using freshly steamed or roasted beets like we do for hummus .
  • Oranges like Australian, Kinnow, or Navel work best as they are easy to cut into segments. Use the oranges to make my teatime egg-free orange cake or the luscious Grandma-style orange marmalade .
  • Mixed Salad Greens like lettuce, arugula, dill, or baby spinach.
  • Pomegranate adds crunch and sweetness to the beetroot salad.
  • Nuts like walnuts, pecan, pine or Brazilian are perfect for the crunch.
  • Soft Cheese like goat, feta, or ricotta are a good choice for this beetroot orange salad.
  • For those looking to add a hint of spiciness to their salad, try orange ginger dressing . The base of this salad dressing is Orange Juice.

How To Make Beetroot Salad

Clean, wash and remove the skin of the beetroot. Cut into quarters.

Steaming Beetroot

  • Fill the bottom of the steamer with water and bring it to a rapid boil.
  • Place beetroot pieces in the upper deck, cover, and steam for 15 minutes.
  • After 10 minutes poke them with a knife or fork to check for doneness.

Roasting Beetroot

  • Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celcius.
  • Toss chopped beetroot with olive oil and salt.
  • Arrange in a baking sheet or tray.
  • Roast for 30 – 40 minutes or till beetroot is soft and cooked.
  • Bring out the tray, and allow them to cool completely.
  • You can roast the beetroot in a stovetop grill pan as well.

Segment the oranges to remove the peel and pith, leaving behind only the juicy flesh. Cut them wedges/segments.

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Prepare Dressing by adding all the dressing ingredients in a jar or a bowl. Close the jar with a tight-fitting lid. Shake it well until oil and fruit juice are emulsified and come together.

Arrange fresh and crisp salad greens on a large serving platter or bowl.

Add roasted beet, oranges, pomegranates, nuts, and cheese over the salad greens.

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Drizzle salad dressing , ensuring that each salad green is lightly coated with the dressing.

For an extra burst of freshness, garnish the salad with fragrant herbs such as mint, basil, dill, or cilantro.

More Salad Recipes

  • Pomelo Salad
  • Orange Salad
  • Fattoush Salad
  • Roasted Fig Salad
  • Cherry Tomato Salad
  • Healthy Cabbage Salad

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Ingredients

  • ▢ 1 large size beetroot
  • ▢ 1 large size orange
  • ▢ 2 Cup mixed lettuce
  • ▢ ¼ Cup pomegranate pearls
  • ▢ ⅛ Cup feta cheese crumbled
  • ▢ ⅛ Cup coarsely chopped walnuts
  • ▢ 2 sprigs fresh dill leaves, finely chopped

Ingredients For Orange Ginger Dressing

  • ▢ ¼ Cup unsweetened orange juice
  • ▢ 2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
  • ▢ 1 tablespoon honey or maple syrup
  • ▢ 1 lemon juiced
  • ▢ 1 teaspoon grated ginger
  • ▢ ⅛ teaspoon red chilli flakes
  • ▢ ⅛ teaspoon salt or to taste

Instructions

  • Clean, wash and remove the skin of the beetroot. Cut into quarters. You can either steam or roast the beets. If you are short of time, use pre cooked beet for this salad. Simply, reheat them. Allow beet to slightly cool before adding to the salad.
  • Remove the skin of the oranges. Segment the oranges to remove the peel and pith, leaving behind only the juicy flesh. Cut them into wedges.
  • Start with adding all the dressing ingredients in a jar or a bowl. Close the jar with a tight-fitting lid. Shake it well until oil and fruit juice are emulsified and come together. If using a bowl, whisk the dressing until all ingredients are combined well.
  • Arrange fresh and crisp salad greens on a large serving platter or bowl.
  • Neatly arrange roasted beets, oranges, pomegranates, nuts, and cheese over the salad greens.
  • Drizzle orange ginger dressing over the salad. Gently toss it.
  • Serve beetroot orange salad immediately.

Recipe Notes:

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Beetroot Orange Salad Recipe

Equipment

  • Steamer/Oven
  • Salad Mixing Bowl

Ingredients

  • 1 large size beetroot
  • 1 large size orange
  • 2 Cup mixed lettuce
  • ¼ Cup pomegranate pearls
  • ⅛ Cup feta cheese crumbled
  • ⅛ Cup coarsely chopped walnuts
  • 2 sprigs fresh dill leaves, finely chopped

Ingredients For Orange Ginger Dressing

  • ¼ Cup unsweetened orange juice
  • 2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon honey or maple syrup
  • 1 lemon juiced
  • 1 teaspoon grated ginger
  • ⅛ teaspoon red chilli flakes
  • ⅛ teaspoon salt or to taste

Instructions

  • Clean, wash and remove the skin of the beetroot. Cut into quarters. You can either steam or roast the beets. If you are short of time, use pre cooked beet for this salad. Simply, reheat them. Allow beet to slightly cool before adding to the salad.
  • Remove the skin of the oranges. Segment the oranges to remove the peel and pith, leaving behind only the juicy flesh. Cut them into wedges.
  • Start with adding all the dressing ingredients in a jar or a bowl. Close the jar with a tight-fitting lid. Shake it well until oil and fruit juice are emulsified and come together. If using a bowl, whisk the dressing until all ingredients are combined well.
  • Arrange fresh and crisp salad greens on a large serving platter or bowl.
  • Neatly arrange roasted beets, oranges, pomegranates, nuts, and cheese over the salad greens.
  • Drizzle orange ginger dressing over the salad. Gently toss it.
  • Serve beetroot orange salad immediately.

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This is an easy, moist strawberry cake perfect for teatime. Be sure to watch the video!

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes

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  • My Tried and True Tips
  • Watch Strawberry Cake Video
  • Recipe Variations
  • Cake Decoration Tips
  • Teatime Strawberry Cake Recipe

With plenty of fresh strawberries in the market, this teatime strawberry cake recipe is a great way to put them to use.

The flavour of fresh strawberries has the right mix of sweetness and tartness —perfect for desserts such as no-bake strawberry cake or my favourite three-ingredient strawberry jam .

Baking With Berries: You can make this teatime cake with other fresh berries like blueberry, raspberry, or cranberry.

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My Tried and True Tips

  • Ensure all the ingredients are at room temperature, especially egg and milk, before preparing the batter. Otherwise, cold ingredients from the fridge might affect the cake’s texture.
  • Measure all the ingredients correctly. Baking is not at all about intuitions.
  • Do not over-mix the cake batter. Once everything is combined, keep your hands away from the batter. Mixing for too long is not going to give you a soft cake. It does quite the opposite.
  • Lastly, overbaking the cake is a serious crime (just joking). Always perform the toothpick test before deciding if the cake is ready.
  • For microwave convection users , check your cake 5 minutes earlier than the recipe’s suggested time. And this trick always helps to get the perfectly baked cake.
  • You may think that berries layered on the cake would dry out while baking, but the opposite is true. Heat causes the berries to soften and release juices. So , by the end of the baking, they become wonderfully squishy, soft, jam-like, and caramelized with edges.
  • While baking with berries, remember that their skin may be particularly tart, but it might be juicy and sweet. Hence, taste the berry first and then adjust the sugar in the batter accordingly.

Watch Strawberry Cake Video

Recipe Variations

  • Eggless Cake: use ¼ cup plain Greek yogurt or a thick curd instead of egg in the recipe. Try my eggless chocolate cake . It’s pure chocolate bliss!
  • Gluten-Free Cake: substitute all-purpose flour with almond flour.
  • Strawberry Sheet Cake: Prepare the batter and bake it in a 9×13-inch sheet pan. Don’t forget to layer the strawberries on top before baking.

Cake Decoration Tips

Strawberry Cake looks fabulous on its own. To make it more inviting, you can:

  • layer the cake with whipped cream and top with fresh strawberries.
  • dust with icing sugar to keep it classic
  • combine 1 cup strawberry puree with 1 cup whipped cream and layer this pink ganache to decorate the cake
  • or drizzle organic strawberry sauce and enjoy!
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More Teatime Cake Recipes

  • Date Nut Loaf
  • Lemon Pound Cake
  • Whole Wheat Cake
  • Teatime Orange Cake
  • Eggless Banana Loaf
  • Eggless Tutti Frutti Cake
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Ingredients

  • ▢ 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour (maida)
  • ▢ 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ▢ a pinch of salt
  • ▢ ½ cup castor sugar plus 2 tablespoons to sprinkle on top
  • ▢ ¼ Cup olive oil
  • ▢ 1 egg, at room temperature
  • ▢ ½ cup milk, at room temperature
  • ▢ 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ▢ 1 teaspoon strawberry extract (optional)
  • ▢ 1 Cup chopped fresh strawberry
  • ▢ 2 Cup sliced strawberry

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). Butter a 9-inch cake tin with parchment paper and brush it with oil or butter.
  • In a larger bowl, whisk together olive oil, milk, egg, and vanilla for 5 – 6 minutes or until oil and milk are nicely emulsified. Set aside.
  • Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, and a pinch of salt. Mix nicely.
  • Pour liquid ingredients into the dry flour mix. Combine nicely using a spatula to form a smooth, lump-free batter.
  • Add chopped strawberries and gently fold them into the batter.
  • Pour the batter in the greased cake tin. Arrange sliced strawberries on top of the batter. Sprinkle remaining 2 tablespoons sugar over berries.
  • Bake for 50 minutes to 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let cool in a wire rack completely before serving.
  • Cut into slice and serve Strawberry Cake with cream along with a cup of coffee.

Recipe Notes:

  • Make sure all the ingredients are at room temperature before preparing the batter.
  • Measure all the ingredients correctly.
  • Do not over mix the cake batter. Mixing for too long is not going to give you a soft cake. It does quite the opposite.
  • Always perform the toothpick test before deciding if the cake is ready.
  • While baking with berries always keep in mind, that the skin of the berry may be particularly tart but it might be juicy and sweet from inside. Hence, taste the berry first and then adjust the amount of sugar in the batter accordingly.
  • Allow the cake to cool down completely on a wire rack before icing or serving.

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