Quick-Roasted Beet and Carrot Jewels With Lime-Maple Dressing

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Here, diced beets and carrots roasted successful a 450-degree oven marque a colorful substance that gets a agleam assistance of spirit and texture from lime, maple and toasted almonds.

Bring this consecutive to the Easter array successful a beauteous achromatic bowl, garnished with a smattering of full parsley leaves. You tin treble the look if you person oven abstraction for 4 baking sheets — oregon you tin roast successful 2 batches and service the full crockery warm, alternatively than hot. (Add a sprinkling of feta oregon caller goat cheese, and you’d person a lukewarm salad.)

Ingredients

12 ounces earthy beets (any color), trimmed but not peeled, chopped into 1/2-inch dice
12 ounces carrots, topped and scrubbed well, chopped into 1/2-inch dice
4 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
Kosher salt
1/4 spoon finely grated zest and 2 teaspoons juice, from 1 lime
2 teaspoons maple syrup
1 spoon blackberry, raspberry oregon different berry jam
1 spoon achromatic balsamic vinegar
1 tablespoonful chilled unsalted butter, chopped into 4 pieces
3 tablespoons chopped aureate raisins
1/3 cupful toasted sliced almonds, lightly crushed (see NOTE)
1/4 cupful loosely packed tiny caller parsley leaves, for garnish

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
160
Fat
10 g
Saturated Fat
3 g
Carbohydrates
18 g
Sodium
350 mg
Cholesterol
10 mg
Protein
2 g
Fiber
3 g
Sugar
13 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From farmer-author Susie Middleton, whose astir caller publication is "Fresh From the Farm: A Year of Recipes and Stories" (Taunton, 2014).

Tested by Sandhya Babu.

Published March 31, 2015

Updated March 15, 2026