Hmmm, what’s on the menu tonight?
I start by looking for what’s abundant. We have a CRAZY amount of oregano right now!
If you don’t have a garden, go to the grocery store and look for the freshest herbs they have. We have a CSA, a Community-Supported Agriculture farm that has a lot of herbs, and right now, the oregano is just amazing. So, it is time to pull out an oregano recipe.
With my pile of fresh oregano, I’m going to make a super delicious herbal side dish. If you like beets, you’re going to love this recipe. It’s an herbal recipe that you can make the day before you need it so that it’s ready in advance or you can make it an hour before serving.
This is one of my favorite dishes to bring to potlucks. Oregano helps prevent the bacteria that can cause food poisoning, so it is one of the defenses I use when there is lots of different kinds of food prepared by a lot of different people. Oregano is antibacterial, antimicrobial and antifungal. Oregano is also a great cold and flu prevention herb.
Beets are full of iron and good for the liver.
We’ve lost a lot of our herbal traditions, but people still know that garlic is great for the heart and prevents colds.
Ideally, I like to make this recipe a day in advance and really let the beets marinade in the dressing, but it’s not necessary.
Make sure to let the beets cool before adding the fresh oregano.
These beets are delicious in salad, added to rice, mixed in with other veggies or served as a side dish.
Mmmmmm, can you smell the oregano?
Oregano Beets
Ingredients
- 4 cups bite-sized beets
- 1 tbsp dried oregano
- ¼ to ½ cup water
- ½ tsp salt
Instructions
- Chop beets, sprinkle with salt and dried oregano
- Add water and bake at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes
- Remove beets from the oven and put into a bowl
- Stir dressing into beets and let sit for at least one hour
- Make sure beets are cool and then garnish with fresh minced oregano
Do you peel the beets?
yes
Hi Kami,
Did you add fresh oregano as the last ingredient in the video?
Yes, the recipe card has the last step as well
Thank you, Kami, for your amazing recipes! Beets are like kitchen staples – they are used in most vegetable dishes. They add that special color and taste. Beets can also be a part of a good hearty borscht soup. For that purpose they are cut in cubes, sauteed, and added to other veggies together with thinly sliced cabbage.
Yes, lots of yummy ways to eat beets
Recipe instructions say to stir the beets into a dressing, but I don’t see any dressing ingredients under the ingredients section?
When you watch the video, you can see how it is all made. Yum!
This sounds delicious – love beets and often grate beets (raw) with minced onion, salt, pepper and a bit of lemon juice. What dressing do you suggest to stir into your oregano beets recipe?
I love what you do, and often look in the Herbal Kitchen book for inspiration.
We eat them as a side dish or they are delicious in a green salad. Glad you put the 250 recipes in The Herbal Kitchen to work~~
Thanks Kami – did not think of adding the beets to a green salad. It’s just that the recipe instructions (no. 4) stated to stir dressing into beets and let stand for at least 1 hour, and could not think of a good combination for a dressing. This has “stretched” my mind and can now imagine just a simple dressing if I want to add that.
These look really good 🙂 I usually boil them then put a homemade mustard vinaigrette/dressing on them. This will be a nice change. Today we had them with fresh avocado slices and brocoli sprouts.
Thanks for your ideas Kami. I enjoy your book too. Have to make the golden oil next 😉
Mmm, that sounds good too!
In the narrative you tell us to remember to let the beets cool before adding the oregano but the recipe says to add it before baking the beets. Help?
HI Barbara,
I know, I am the worst person when it comes to following recipes, including my own!
You can do either of these or both, i often add oregano before baking and then after
So, you can do one or the other or add oregano at both stages