The FastDay Forum

I made this yesterday and it was really tasty. Ingredients: 2 med size cooked beetroot, some salad greens, baby spinach leaves, 20g or so of ricotta, a teeny drizzle of extra virgin olive oil (a tsp or two) and a few (just a few!) chopped raw almonds. Season with salt and pepper. Depending on the quantities you use, it is really low cal, but for me the thing was that it tasted very nice, I was actually making that mmm mmm sound when I was eating it lol!

That sounds really good!

That sound delicious. How did you cook the beetroot? (Boil/steam/roast)
I love adding almonds to salad. I toast them. You can toast the almonds in the oven for about 5 minutes and they become even more flavorful, so a little goes a long way.

The beetroot is pre-cooked and is in the prepared salad section at the supermarket (Coles in Australia). If that isn't available, I would try steaming it as that keeps in the nutrients rather than boiling.

It's usually vacuumed packed its the nearest you get to cooking it yourself it's pretty good