# How to prepare a beetroot

## The essentials

Beetroot is sold raw or already cooked. Raw, finely grated, it is crunchy and sweet in a salad. Cooked, it is cut into dice or slices. It stains hands and boards: a little lemon for the hands, and a board you wash right away.

## Choosing it

Raw: firm, smooth, heavy. Vacuum-packed cooked: no cloudy liquid in the packaging.

## Preparing it

Raw: wash, peel with a peeler, then grate or cut. Cooked: the skin comes off with your fingers or a knife. To cook it yourself, leave it whole with its skin, in water forty-five to sixty minutes or in the oven an hour, and the skin comes off afterwards.

## Cutting it for the dish

- Grated raw, for a salad.
- In dice or slices when cooked, for a salad or with fresh cheese.
- In wedges, for the oven.

## How long it takes

Two minutes.

## Storing it

Raw, in the fridge, two to three weeks. Cooked and cut, three to four days.

## Make it tonight

The page "Oven-roasted vegetables": beetroot wedges, forty minutes.

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