Golden Beet Salad with feta cheese, caramelized onions, and a sweet and salty balsamic miso dressing. Perfect weekend or holiday salad.
This salad is an amazing stand alone meal, but if you're always searching for happiness like me, it goes well with the most perfect Soft Fluffy French Bread. It's a veggie rainbow of color, just like my Spring Roll Salad!
Golden Beet Salad
THIS SALAD. I've always been a little obsessed with beets. Steamed, with butter and salt, roasted, or pickled. Caramelized onions had to make an appearance. Spiralized rainbow carrots, of course. Feta cheese? Definitely. AND MISO. My children. I will explain all about the miso. But first, the caramelized onions.
I use 2 onions for this recipe, because they reduce down quite a bit as they cook. It takes 20-30 minutes to caramelize them depending on how dark you want them.
Begin by cooking thinly sliced onions over medium heat with 3-4 Tablespoons of olive oil or butter and ½ teaspoon of salt to bring the moisture out of the onions, and stirring every 2-3 minutes. In picture number two, you can see a few little brown onions coming out to play.
In number three, most of the onions are a lovely golden color. Many people stop here. But not me my friends. I like to cook a little darker, more like picture four. The thinnest onions can get a little darker than the rest, and this is fine.
By this point I'm stirring every minute or two so that they don't burn. Sometimes there is a dark residue on the bottom of the pan from the onion mixed with oil or butter. This is fine, I use a wooden spatula or spoon to stir it back into the onions.
Miso Dressing
The balsamic miso dressing is another star in this lovely gold beet salad. I use organic mellow white miso, which can be found at Whole Foods Markets in the United States or found online, places like Amazon.
What is Miso?
A salty paste made from fermented soybeans and barley or rice malt and koji, the mold it is cultured with. It's a widely used staple in Japanese cooking, and I have begun to use it in EVERYTHING. It can be used to make delicious compound butters, meat or veggie marinades, added to soups, dipping sauces, or in this case, a delicious miso salad dressing.
The lovely thing about this salad is that it could be considered a less traditional Easter/Spring or Fall salad. Look at those colors! So beautiful.
Don't be afraid to mix a little miso in with the caramelized onions at the end of cooking, or with the beets before they go into the salad. Red beets also make a nice addition.
Other salad recipes to try:
Yes there is a jello salad in this list. It's me, after all. But it's salad and it's unique.
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Golden Beet Salad with Balsamic Miso Dressing
Golden Beet Salad with feta cheese, caramelized onions, and a sweet and salty balsamic miso dressing. Perfect weekend or holiday salad.