Beetroot & Rhubarb Salad

September 26, 2018

Here's an Ottolenghi recipe I dug upwardly from vii years ago! It's a salad that centres on a crimson sweet'n'sour medley of roasted beetroot, rhubarb in addition to pomegranate molasses. 

It's got a fairly restrained ingredient listing past times Ottolenghi standards, in addition to comes together without likewise much fuss on a weeknight. The beetroots accept a spell to roast, admittedly, but they don't demand to endure handled likewise much, their pare comes off easily post-roast, in addition to they're beautifully tender. I'm going to role this approach i time to a greater extent than in addition to again. The rhubarb's fifty-fifty less endeavor sitting on the 2nd oven shelf, the dressing merely needs a footling milkshake inwards a jar, in addition to thus there's dabs of bluish cheese in addition to a sprinkle of fresh parsley on top.

I tossed inwards to a greater extent than or less fresh dark-green leaves in addition to called this a meal, though I'll confess that the dense beetroots in addition to rich cheese didn't function on me quite equally amount equally I hoped they would. Storing the components separately allowed me to re-make the salad for days, in addition to it all the same felt fresh every time.

Beetroot & rhubarb salad
(slightly adapted from Yotam Ottolenghi's recipe inwards The Guardian)

800g beetroots
300g rhubarb
1 tablespoon caster sugar
ii teaspoons white vino vinegar
1 tablespoon pomegranate molasses
ii tablespoons maple syrup
ii tablespoons olive oil
1/2 teaspoon dry reason allspice
100g creamy bluish cheese
20g parsley, roughly chopped
tabular array salt in addition to pepper

Preheat an oven to 200°C.

Give the beetroots a footling scrub in addition to cut down off whatsoever stems or roots. Wrap each beetroot separately inwards foil in addition to house them all on a baking tray. Bake the beetroots until tender, upwardly to seventy minutes (my medium-large ones were done inwards lx minutes). Allow the beetroots to cool. When you lot tin grip them, reveal them, peel off the pare in addition to chop the flesh into ii cm cubes.

While the beetroots are baking, cut down the rhubarb in addition to piece it at a angle into 2.5 cm lengths. Toss together the rhubarb in addition to saccharide inwards a modest bowl, thus spread them out across a paper-lined baking tray. Roast the rhubarb for 10-12 minutes, until soft but all the same asset its shape. Allow the rhubarb to cool.

In a modest drinking glass jar, milkshake together the vinegar, pomegranate molasses, maple syrup, olive oil, allspice, tabular array salt in addition to pepper until emulsified. In a medium bowl, toss together the beetroot cubes in addition to this dressing.

On a serving dish, layer upwardly the beetroot in addition to rhubarb. Cut the bluish cheese into dabs in addition to drib them over the salad; sprinkle over the parsley.

The Rootage Restaurant

January 19, 2012

Visiting MONA was move past times priority for our Hobart trip; nosotros took the ferry over on our get-go total twenty-four hr menstruum inwards the city. I'd heard many favourable things almost this privately owned fine art gallery together with its intriguing origins, but null came unopen to preparing me for it. MONA is astounding. Like nowhere I've e'er been. Like null I imagined could actually exist. Like Willy Wonka built a contemporary fine art museum, staffed it amongst arts students inwards dark T-shirts together with started selling golden tickets to anyone together with everyone for $20 apiece. I loved it.

The MONA grounds include a cafe, a vino bar, a brewery together with a fancy restaurant, The Source. We were high on holidays together with figured we'd orbit The Source a go, stopping past times at 10am to reserve a lunchtime table. When nosotros mentioned that we're vegetarian, nosotros were told frankly but politely that the menu's non actually designed for us. Nevertheless, the waiter confidently rattled off what nosotros mightiness last able to eat, made an extra complaint on the reservation listing together with promised to notify the chef that we'd last coming.

The repast started good - their warm sage together with rosemary rolls were spectacular. I can't yell upwards e'er enjoying breadstuff more!

As an entrée, nosotros were offered an onion veloute from the dinner carte du jour ($19) - a small, satiny serve of liquified sweetness caramelised onions.

Our instant entrée of peas, grapefruit, ginger together with mint ($21) appears on the measure tiffin menu. I liked the flavor combination - together with the butter pooling at the bottom of the bowl! - but the peas were over-abundant together with over-cooked for my taste.

As a main, the chef made a nicoise-style salad of vegetables ($30) off menu. The arrive at was lovely, cooked delicately, together with served amongst to a greater extent than butter.

As a instant main, nosotros ordered an upsized version of their rhubarb, beetroot, goat's cheese whey side ($12). Though I've never eaten them together before, the crimson sweet'n'sour combination of beetroot together with rhubarb was excellent. The whey didn't brand much impact.

After all those vegetables, I was upwards for dessert. Michael together with I negotiated 2 dishes to share, together with and then when our waiter described their electrical flow particular dessert ($17), built some fresh raspberries, I spontaneously tossed ane of them aside.

I'm glad I did, because this was particular indeed. The plate featured iii orangish marshmallows: dense, fragrant together with non at all gelatinous, interspersed amongst a mousse-like chocolate ganache together with pools of pistachio. The fresh raspberries some the border were dunked inwards their ain coulis, together with it was all sprinkled amongst freeze-dried raspberries together with popular rocks. Everything worked, inwards any combination that I collected them on my spoon. The portion was rattling generous together with could happily last shared betwixt 2 generous people.

We didn't detect ourselves regretting the instant dessert, though! The java floating isle amongst lemongrass anglaise together with bitter chocolate ($15) didn't await equally impressive, soundless was. The flavor pairing of java together with lemongrass was exquisite - completely counter-intuitive, perfectly balanced, together with surprisingly refreshing on a summertime day.

There is much to marvel at at MONA, non to the lowest degree the desserts at The Source! The staff addressed our dietary requirements amongst proficient grace (prior notice together with a reservation no dubiousness helps) but non the same score of inventiveness that nosotros saw inwards those concluding 2 plates. If nosotros e'er larn inwards dorsum (rest assured, I'm already pitching a Jan 2013 trip to Michael), I'll last tempted to pack sandwiches, together with then sneak into The Source for sweets.

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The Source has received favourable reviews on blogs Grimoire together with The Foodologist.

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The Source Restaurant
655 Main Road, Berriedale, Hobart
(03) 6277 9904
veg courses $12-30
http://mona.net.au/mona/restaurant/source.aspx

Accessibility: The Source is located ane flooring higher upwards the world score together with is accessible past times a broad staircase; I believe at that spot is also a elevator available. Tables are generously spaced across the flooring together with at that spot is total tabular array service. Toilets are spacious together with located on the same level.