Beetroot leaves, any ideas?

Andy Hamilton · Mon Jun 05, 2006 4:03 am

I have about a footballs sized bag full of beetroot leaves as I planted loads then thinned them out. Any ideas for recipes?

I was wondering if I could do a sort of beetroot leaf sourkrautt or pesto?

ina · Post: # 21920Post **ina** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:08 am

I use some young leaves in a salad mix - but have never cooked them.

Millymollymandy · Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:20 am

Cook in the same way as you would spinach beet (perpetual spinach). It tastes pretty much the same too!

Andy Hamilton · Tue Jun 06, 2006 7:12 pm

Millymollymandy wrote:Cook in the same way as you would spinach beet (perpetual spinach). It tastes pretty much the same too!

oh yes of course!

Millymollymandy · Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:01 am

Andy I'm not sure whether you were actually asking for recipes or wondering how you were supposed to cook beetroot leaves. So I might have just stated the obvious?

If so sorry! As discussed recently with Nev (who was looking for ideas for silver beet) I curry it up with coconut milk and it is very nice.

Andy Hamilton · Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:08 am

Millymollymandy wrote:So I might have just stated the obvious? If so sorry! As discussed recently with Nev (who was looking for ideas for silver beet) I curry it up with coconut milk and it is very nice.

It is the obvious that I was after.

You only every get told to put them in a salad. The curry sounds good.

Andy Hamilton · Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:19 pm

I had spinach pancakes for dinner tonight using the beetroot leaves as a replacement for spinach, it was well nice. will post a recipe up on the main site. cheers m3, good sugestion.

Cheezy · Post: # 22409Post **Cheezy** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:45 pm

Steamed with butter,salt,pepper and the secret ingredient nutmeg..chard goes well like this.

If you microwave it right at the end add a dollup of yogurt, greek or normal.

Madar Jeffries has loads of recipes in her world vegie cook book.

One nice one uses oil,garlic, mustard seed, infuse then add the leaves stir fry, add salt, lemon juice...nice

Andy Hamilton · Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:43 pm

I am having a go at beetroot leaf soup at the moment.

onions sweated down in butter, a bit of garlic 3 massive cloves, 4 small onions then a huge amount of imature beetroots chopped up. It is all boiling away downstairs. will let you know what it is like. Might need some spicing up a bit.

Millymollymandy · Sat Jun 10, 2006 11:18 am

Will be interesting to see what that is like! If you have a freezer, you can blanch some of it and freeze it. I've still got loads of spinach beet and beetroot greens in the freezer from last year.

Shirley · Post: # 32080Post **Shirley** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 12:17 pm

Andy Hamilton wrote:I am having a go at beetroot leaf soup at the moment.

onions sweated down in butter, a bit of garlic 3 massive cloves, 4 small onions then a huge amount of imature beetroots chopped up. It is all boiling away downstairs. will let you know what it is like. Might need some spicing up a bit.

What did it taste like Andy???

Andy Hamilton · Thu Aug 31, 2006 12:49 pm

t'was really nice as far as I remember.

Wormella · Post: # 32102Post **Wormella** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 2:25 pm

for the amount of beetroot we get in the veg bag we get surpirisngly little in the way of leaves.

shame, I quite like them.

PS - this was a gratuitiously unecessery post to get my 100th post / Barbara Good avatar!

Shirley · Post: # 32103Post **Shirley** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 2:30 pm

Congratulations

Why not ask your veggie box people to leave on the leaves!!

Shirley · Post: # 33430Post **Shirley** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:01 pm

Just had some beetroot from the garden... some red... some white.... sliced and roasted... with a touch of garlic. The leaves... simply steamed (damn, I forgot the nutmeg... will try that next time)... all cooked and on the plate within 20 minutes of being plucked from the ground. YAY!