vegetablesweet · mild-earth · honeyed · carroty · clean

Golden beet

All of beetroot sugar, a third of its dirt, and none of the pink fingerprints.

on its own

1.0sour

4.0sweet

1.0savoury

1.0bitter

1.0umami

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1 of these 10 are wild — theory says yes, nobody has cooked them. why →

10 pairings for Golden beet.

common

Less geosmin to cancel, so the acid is free to work on the sugar instead.

common

Peppery green oil is the bitterness this beet does not supply itself.

common

Same colour, same terpene sweetness; the acid keeps it from going flat.

common

Roast it under a lid with thyme; the resin gets into the flesh, not the skin.

common

Both floral rather than caramel sweet. Glaze thin or it stops being a vegetable.

uncommon

Green nut fat and a pale sweet root; the crunch is the whole contribution.

uncommon

Anise against honey. It sharpens a root that has almost no edges of its own.

rare

Sweet on sweet with a mineral floor, and no soil note to fight the shellfish.

rare

Hay and iodine give a very polite root some strangeness to work against.

wild

Savage orange acid against mild sweet earth. The beet finally gets an argument.