I was at a party and along with the usual carrot, celery and jicama sticks there were these interesting looking purple\/red sticks.\u00a0 Some of the party-goers thought they were simply dyed jicama, but they were immediately identifiable to me as raw beet sticks.\u00a0 They had a really interesting flavor, and they didn’t bleed when you held them.\u00a0 Some people though they had seen them at Trader Joe’s but I decided to try and make my own.<\/p>\n
Ingredients: I use pretty large beets, about the size of a baseball.\u00a0 I prepare one beet at a time.\u00a0\u00a0 Begin by peeling the beet with a carrot\/vegetable peeler.\u00a0 I have a great peeler by R\u00f6sle and it just takes a minute or so to peel the entire beet.\u00a0 Cut the beet into sticks.\u00a0 (I probably don’t have to tell you how to do this, but I begin by cutting the beet in half.\u00a0 Working with one half, flat side down, I slice the beet about 3\/8″ wide.\u00a0 Then I take half those slices, flip them so the flat side is down and slice again.\u00a0 This will leave you with 3\/8″ sticks.\u00a0 Repeat with the other half.)<\/p>\n Once the beet is sliced, put them into a bowl of cold water and let them sit for about an hour.\u00a0 Change the water and let sit for a few more hours.\u00a0 You can repeat this a third time if you want.\u00a0 Drain the water and put the beet sticks onto a dry paper towel and pat them as dry as possible.\u00a0 Put them into a zip lock bag and keep in the fridge – they’ll be good for a week or more.<\/p>\n The beet will bleed a lot when you are doing the initial cutting.\u00a0 You might want to wear an apron to keep the beet juice off your clothes.\u00a0 I cut them on a plastic cutting board and the red juice washes right off, but I imagine it would stain a wooden board.\u00a0 The juice will also stain your hands red, so you might want to wear gloves.\u00a0 Personally I don’t bother as the red doesn’t last too long.\u00a0 (I have read that you can neutralize the red stain on your hands with lemon juice but that hasn’t worked for me.)<\/p>\n Note:\u00a0 If you eat a lot of these you may notice that your urine is orange or even reddish.\u00a0 You may also a lot of red color with your stools.\u00a0 Neither is anything to worry about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was at a party and along with the usual carrot, celery and jicama sticks there were these interesting looking purple\/red sticks.\u00a0 Some of the party-goers thought they were simply dyed jicama, but they were immediately identifiable to me as raw beet sticks.\u00a0 They had a really interesting flavor, and they didn’t bleed when you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[52,54,55,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Raw beet, quantity up to you<\/p>\n