Sauteed Beets and Greens Over Polenta

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This root-to-leaf crockery combines quick-cooking shredded beets and their greens with olives (for punch) and polenta (for a comforting, cold-weather base). Thanks to a astute soaking method, the polenta comes unneurotic conscionable arsenic rapidly arsenic the beets.

The look calls for much greens than you mightiness get from a azygous bunch. But if you person tons of beet greens connected hand, consciousness escaped to usage 10 ounces (8 lightly packed cups) and skip the summation of chard/spinach.

The cooked polenta tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 1 week; it volition steadfast up arsenic it chills, truthful you'll request to lukewarm it implicit debased vigor portion whisking successful a small h2o oregon broth to crook it creamy again. (Or chopped it into squares and pan-fry.) The cooked beet substance tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 5 days.

The polenta needs to soak overnight; the soaked polenta tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 2 days earlier cooking.

From Food exertion Joe Yonan, based connected recipes by Maria Speck successful Fine Cooking mag and Julia Child successful "The Way to Cook."

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 8 (makes astir 6 cups polenta)

2 cups polenta (do not usage instant oregon quick-cooking)
3 cups boiling water, positive 1/4 cupful water
1 lb beets, with greens (greens should beryllium 4 cups lightly packed)
5 ounces Swiss chard leaves, caller spinach leaves and/or a operation (4 cups lightly packed)
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 mean onion, coarsely chopped
4 cloves garlic, coarsely chopped
1 spoon crushed cumin
1 cupful pitted greenish olives, coarsely chopped
1 tablespoonful crushed sumac (optional)
1 1/2 teaspoons good oversea salt, oregon much arsenic needed
1/2 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
1 spoon reddish vino vinegar
3 cups homemade oregon no-salt-added rootlike broth (see related recipe)
1/2 cupful plain Greek-style yogurt (optional)
1/2 cupful toasted walnuts, chopped (see NOTE)
Finely grated zest from 2 ample oranges (2 tablespoons)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
290
Fat
10 g
Saturated Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
45 g
Sodium
660 mg
Protein
6 g
Fiber
6 g
Sugar
7 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 Food exertion Joe Yonan, based connected recipes by Maria Speck successful Fine Cooking mag and Julia Child successful "The Way to Cook."

Tested by Joe Yonan.

Published February 17, 2015

Updated March 15, 2026