This easy, five-ingredient vegetable side dish of Roasted Golden Beets with rosemary and garlic goes well with almost any entree. Vegan, gluten-free and nut-free recipe.
I planted beets one year in my vegetable garden. I love these brilliant, beautiful, earthy vegetables with a passion, and had high hopes of harvesting fresh beets all summer long. The experience was not a complete disaster, but also not quite what I envisioned. While I did get armfuls of beet greens, wonderful to toss into a stir-fried side or salad or dal, the beets themselves grew no larger than marbles.
I haven't tried my hand at growing beets since, but I do buy them ever so often, especially when I can get fresh, organic beets and greens at the market. In spring, it's that much easier.
I had a bunch of beautiful golden beets on hand after my last trip to the market, and, the other night, looking for something easy but delicious to make with them, I created this recipe for Roasted Golden Beets with Rosemary and Garlic.
Beets take beautifully to herbs, and they combine easily and naturally with garlic, which tones down as well as enhances their earthy flavor. (Try this utterly simple dish of beets with garlic and olive oil, another one of my beloved recipes to see just how well garlic and beets pair together).
In this roasted beets recipe it's rather wonderful how the roasting concentrates the sweetness of the beets. The recipe itself is very simple, requiring just four ingredients (and the salt and pepper, of course).
What are you planting in your vegetable garden this year? I just got started with mine, and with my hands as full as they are, I am sticking to the easy ones-- a few tomatoes, herbs, eggplant, zucchini, and peppers. Here's looking forward to a bountiful summer of fresh, homegrown vegetables. And if you've ever grown beets, I'd love to know your secret.
More beet recipes
- Vegan Beet Burger with Chipotle Cashew Hummus
- Wheat Berry Salad with Roasted Beets
- Beets Infused with Garlic and Olive Oil
More roasted veggie recipes
- Lemony Greek Potatoes
- Turmeric Roasted Root Vegetables
- Golden Roasted Curry Mustard Potatoes
- Roasted Hasselback Delicata Squash
Roasted Golden Beets with Rosemary and Garlic Recipe
Roasted Golden Beets
Ingredients
- 6 medium golden beets peeled and cut into 1-inch chunks (red beets are a perfectly good substitution)
- 3 cloves garlic minced or crushed
- 1 tablespoon rosemary finely chopped (if using dry, use 1 tsp)
- Salt and black pepper to taste
- 2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F
- Mix together the garlic, rosemary, olive oil and salt and pepper.
- In a bowl, place the beets and toss them with the herb-olive-oil mixture.
- Spread in a single layer on a baking sheet, preferably coated with aluminum foil to make cleanup easier, and roast 35-40 minutes or until the beets are fork tender and golden. Stir once or twice during roasting to make sure they cook evenly.
- Serve hot or cold.
Joyce cantin
Hi! This recipe is the best ever, full of flavour, nice and crisp. However was wondering do we preserve all vitamins and minerals when we roast vegetables?
Vaishali
Joyce, so happy to hear you enjoyed it! Cooking does reduce nutrients in almost any vegetable, but it's not a huge difference and one can only eat so much beet slaw. 🙂 I like my beets cooked rather than raw because that also concentrates the earthy flavor into a mellow sweetness.
Pati Manich
Can I peel the beets before roasting?
Vaishali
Yes, you can.
Leslie
I want to cook these at the same time I am cooking a beef brisket at 300 degrees. I am trying to figure out when to put the beets in the oven during the brisket's "low and slow" approximately 5 hour cooking time.
How long do you think they will take at that lower temperature?
Vaishali
Prob one hour and 15 minutes at that temperature.
Anonymous
Thanks!
Trudee K.
We got golden beets in our CSA box. I had never cooked golden beets before. I used fresh rosemary from my 1st time herb garden. Yum! This recipe was easy and delicious!
Kayla
Wow! My first time having Golden Beets and I couldn't have come across a better recipe!! Oh how the aroma filled the air 😀 Rosemary and garlic are too good. Thanks for sharing!!
Brenda
Hi! I'm so excited to try this! I have a few giant yellow beets so if I cut up two of those instead, it should work right? Also, could I add a couple small red beets for color... do they cook the same?
Thank you for taking the time to help ☺️
Vaishali
Yes, beets of any color and size would work here!
Bernadette Mroz
Have you tried this recipe with cooked beets? or frozen beets?
Vaishali
It won’t work with beets that are already cooked— they’ll burn. Frozen could work.
Joanna
Excellent! Thanks for the idea for my farm share beets. Followed recipe but cooked in air fryer in half the time.
Sarah
What does 6 inch beets mean? Is it 6 beets or one large beet?
Vaishali
It's 6 medium-sized beets, cut into 1-inch chunks. Some of the words got moved around when I moved to a new recipe editor--I've corrected now.
Havatselet
Thank you for this super easy and SO delicious recipe! I made it for the first time yesterday, and absolutely intend to make it again. And again...
Joshua Howard
Thank you for the recipe! It sounds very delicious but I have a question. Can it be made oil-free?
Vaishali
You can sub the oil with 1/4 cup of vegetable stock. Your beets may not turn out as crunchy, but they'll be tasty!
Joshua Howard
Thank you!
Glenn Modrak
Hi. What is the weight of 6 beets
Moon
Thank you for the recipe. I peeled and cut them after cooking but they're tasty.
Janet
My favorite recipe for beets! These are SO good.