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Orange Scented Beet Salad – Vegan Under Pressure

3 minutes high pressure; 7 minute natural pressure release Cooking beets has never been easier. They become so tender that you don’t even need to peel them
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Ingredients
  

  • 1 ½ pounds beets about 6 medium or more small (smaller is usually better)
  • ½ cup freshly squeezed orange juice
  • 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
  • 3 large slices orange zest from organic oranges
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar Sucanat or agave syrup
  • 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
  • 2 teaspoons orange zest
  • 2 green onions sliced
  • 2 cups spicy greens like arugula mustard or a mix, washed and dried

Instructions
 

  • Scrub beets. Remove tops, stems and tails and cut in half. Then cut into ¼-inch slices.
  • Put the orange juice, vinegar and the large slices of orange zest into the cooker. Add the beet slices.
  • Lock on the lid. Bring to pressure. Maintain high pressure for 3 minutes. Remove the pot from the heat. Let the pressure come down naturally for 7 minutes, then release any remaining pressure.
  • Remove the lid, tilting it away from you.
  • Remove the large pieces of orange zest. Stir in the brown sugar and mustard.
  • Remove the beets from the cooking liquid and let cool for 5 minutes.
  • Mix the orange zest and green onions with the beets. Pour the liquid from the cooker over the beets. Spoon ¼ of the mixture onto ½ cup of spicy greens on individual salad plates.
  • Or you may chill the beets, without the zest and green onions, and let sit in the liquid for a day or two. Right before serving stir in the orange zest and green onions.

Notes

Excerpted from VEGAN UNDER PRESSURE, (c) 2016 by Jill Nussinow. Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.