Sara's Messy Kitchen: Summer Time Beetroot Salad

Beetroots are one of my favourite vegetables, with its beautiful rich red colour, dense texture and strangely sweet yet earthy flavour.

I first came across the combination of beetroot and goat's cheese while reading through my copy of The Flavour Thesaurus by Niki Segnit. If you do not own/have never seen this book, do your selves a favour and get your hands on a copy. Josh bought mine for me as a birthday gift a few years back, and it is pretty much my bible.

Niki mentions delicious things like goats cheese souffle with beetroot ice cream, and beetroot tart with goats cheese meringue-YUM!!! She also shares some wonderful recipes, but still, to me the most delicious and simple way to cook a beetroot is to roast it. With some crispy dark edges and a soft sweet centre (I always have to cook extra because most of it doesn't even make it to the table), paired with a lively stinging goats cheese is pretty much a match made in savoury heaven.

Having said that, who wouldn't love to spend a beautiful summer day, feasting on delicious bowls of guilt free (and delicious) salad and an ice cold glass (or two or three) of crisp white wine??