Crock Pot Thyme Roasted Beets Recipes

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• Carrots and beets are particularly good when roasted as it brings out their natural sugars. The best advice I can give you is about flavoring them. A few smashed garlic cloves, a woody herb like rosemary, thyme, sage or bay, and a splash of vinegar, or squeezed lemon or orange juice, can accentuate their natural flavor.
• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Put the carrots into a large pot and the beets into another, and add enough water to cover them. Season with salt and bring to a boil. Cook for 15 to 20 minutes until just tender, then drain and place in separate bowls. Peel the beets, and cut any larger carrots and beets in half or into quarters. Smaller ones can stay whole.
• Now add the flavorings while the vegetables are still hot. Toss the carrots with half the smashed garlic and a glug of olive oil, then lightly season. Add the orange juice and the thyme leaves and toss again. Mix the beets with the rest of the garlic, the rosemary, balsamic vinegar and salt and pepper. You can now put the vegetables either into separate ovenproof dishes, or together on a large roasting pan with the carrots in 1 half of the pan and the beets in the other. Place in the middle of the preheated oven and roast for around 1/2 hour or until golden.
• While the carrots and beets are cooking, lay the chops on a board and score through the skin and the streaky-looking part of the meat. This will give you lovely crackling.
• Firmly press a sage leaf onto the eye meat on both sides of each chop. Season with salt and pepper.
• When the vegetables start to color, heat a large ovenproof frying pan or small roasting pan on the burner, add a good glug of olive oil and put in the chops. As soon as you've got nice color on 1 side, turn the chops over and place the pan in the oven for 10 minutes, or until the chops are crisp on the outside and just cooked through and juicy in the middle. Remove the chops to a warmed plate. Pour most of the fat out of the pan and add a squeeze of lemon juice to it. Stir and scrape the lovely sticky bits off the bottom and drizzle all over the chops. Remove the carrots and beets from the oven - they should be nice and sticky by now. Serve them with the chops and a glass of wine.
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Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Wrap beets in foil and roast until tender when pierced with fork, about 1 hour. Cool. Peel beets. Cut 1/4 of 1 beet into 1/4-inch cubes; reserve for garnish. Cut remaining beets into 1/2-inch pieces.
• Melt butter with oil in heavy medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Add leek, onion, and celery and cook until beginning to brown, stirring frequently, about 13 minutes. Stir in ginger, allspice, white pepper, and 1/2-inch beet pieces. Cook until vegetables begin to stick to bottom of pot, stirring frequently, about 7 minutes. Add 2 cups water, bay leaf, thyme sprig, and parsley sprig. Bring to boil. Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer until vegetables are very tender, about 25 minutes. Remove bay leaf, thyme sprig, and parsley sprig. Cool soup slightly. Working in batches, puree soup in blender with cream. Season to taste with salt and pepper. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cool slightly, cover, and refrigerate.)
• Gently rewarm soup (do not boil). Divide between 2 bowls. Garnish each with 1 tablespoon crème fraîche. Sprinkle with reserved beet cubes.

Steps:

• Peel and dice the beets, then place in crock pot.
• Add garlic, 1/4 cup water, oil, thyme, salt and pepper.
• Stir all ingredients until well combined.
• Cover and cook for 6 hours on low until tender.
• Sprinkle with parsley.

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• For the beets, Prepare each beet by leaving the root intact and trimming the stem to a 1 inch stub to prevent "bleeding" and wrap each beet in aluminum foil and pile them into the center of the crock pot. If you are using smaller beets, wrap 3 together in the foil.
• Cover the crock pot and cook on high 4-6 hours depending upon the size of your beets. The more beets in the cooker, the time needed. Check for doneness by piercing a beet with the tip of a sharp knife through the foil. When it goes in with no resistance, the beet is done.
• Use tongs to remove the wrapped beets from the cooker.
• Reserve 1 tablespoons of the liquid in the crock for the vinaigrette recipe and set aside.
• Unwrap and slip off the skins with a paring knife. Leave whole if smaller or slice or cut into chunks. Serve immediately if you want them warm with the vinaigrette or refrigerate and eat cold with the warm vinaigrette.
• For the vinaigrette, in a skillet, over medium heat, heat 1 tablespoons of the olive oil and cook the shallot, stirring, until softened.
• Add the vinegar and the reserved 1 tablespoon of beet liquid from the crock pot and heat until just warm. Add remaining olive oil and pour over the beets in a bowl; toss to coat.
• Arrange beets on a platter over lettuce leaves and season with salt and pepper; serve.
• For Vegan do not use the Butter suggestion.