This golden beet salad with blueberry lime dressing is a colorful, healthy salad recipe that is packed with nutrition and flavor!

Happy Friday! The weather has been pretty dreary around here lately, meaning I need to get my sunshine and color from my food! 😉 Hence this golden beet salad with blueberry lime dressing!

Easy Golden Beet Salad

This salad may look like it has a lot going on, but it's pretty simple to whip together.

• While the beets are sauteing you can prep the rest of the salad - should be ready on your table in 10 minutes!
• Use pre-cooked chicken, meaning leftover grilled chicken you made previously or even rotisserie chicken you picked up from the store.
• While the dressing looks bold, bright, thick, and luxurious, it actually just has three ingredients and whips together lickity split in a food processor or blender.

Golden Beets Health Benefits

What makes golden beets so healthy?

• They contain good amounts of fiber, iron, potassium, folic acid
• Like many orange and yellow-colored fruits and vegetables, they're packed with significant amounts of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients: vitamin C, vitamin A, beta-carotene, potassium, magnesium, lycopene, flavonoids, and zeaxanthin.

How are golden beets different from red beets?

• Both are highly nutritious options!
• The pigments responsible for their color are in the same family - one big difference is the betalains in red and purple beet varieties are the culprits behind beeturia (when your urine may turn pink after eating beets).
• Golden beets are less likely to stain your hands and cutting boards (or cause beeturia lol). 😉
• Some say anecdotally that golden beets don't have as strong a flavor as red beets.

Golden Beet Salad with Blueberry Lime Dressing Recipe Notes

• Feel free to substitute your preferred protein - fish, shrimp, baked tofu, garbanzo beans, lentils, etc.
• You of course can use any type of beet variety if you can't find/ don't prefer golden beets
• You can use any preferred leafy greens/ salad base if you can't find/ don't prefer baby kale
• While the beet sprouts are stunning in color, they're not always easy to find. Feel free to use any other kind of sprout or microgreen if you'd prefer!
  • Note: use caution with sprouts if you're pregnant or have a compromised immune system - there actually can be high amounts of foodborne bacteria like salmonella in sprouts due to growing practices.

If you give this salad a try, be sure to comment and rate the recipe below. And of course, you can always share your food pics with me on social media! Tag your photos with @nutritiontofit and #nutritiontofit so I'll see! Can't wait to see what colorful creations you come up with! Be well!

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Golden Beet Salad with Blueberry Lime Dressing

This golden beet salad with blueberry lime dressing is a colorful, healthy salad recipe that is packed with nutrition and flavor!

free from: wheat/ gluten, soy, dairy, egg, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts (does contain coconut)

Prep Time10 mins

Cook Time10 mins

Total Time20 mins

Course: Salad

Cuisine: American

Servings: 2 salads

Calories: 389kcal

Author: Lindsey Janeiro, RDN, CLT

Ingredients

• 3 golden beets peeled and sliced
• 1 teaspoon coconut oil
• 6 oz cooked chicken breast
• 6 oz baby kale salad greens
• ½ avocado peeled and thinly sliced
• ½ cup beet sprouts or preferred sprouts or microgreens
• ½ cup blueberries

Blueberry Lime Dressing:

• ½ cup blueberries
• 2 teaspoon coconut oil
• Juice from 1 lime

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

• Preheat a nonstick skillet over medium heat. Melt coconut oil and add golden beet slices. Cook 4-5 minutes per side, or until beets are soft and tender.
• In a blender, food processor, or mini food chopper, puree dressing ingredients (blueberries, coconut oil, lime juice).
• Assemble salads by creating a base of greens and adding golden beets, cooked chicken, avocado, sprouts or microgreens, and blueberries. Dressing will be thick, so spoon over the salad.
• Enjoy!

Notes

You can substitute any kind of mixed/ salad greens for the base and any type of sprouts or microgreens you desire. 

Leftover rotisserie chicken works great in this recipe!

Nutrition

Calories: 389kcal | Carbohydrates: 29g | Protein: 31g | Fat: 17g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 72mg | Sodium: 185mg | Potassium: 1064mg | Fiber: 8g | Sugar: 16g | Vitamin A: 1080IU | Vitamin C: 38.6mg | Calcium: 50mg | Iron: 2.9mg