Categories: Vegetables

Ingredients

• 1 bunch of small beets
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 tablespoon maple syrup, more to taste
• Juice from 1/2 lemon
• salt to taste

Directions

1. Wash and quarter enough beets to feed everyone you’ll be sitting with at the table tonight.

2. Heat olive oil on high heat in a good skillet.

3. Add beets and stir fry until the tip of your knife can be inserted into the beet with a little pressure. Beets should be just tender…never mushy. I’d say this takes about 3-5 minutes, stirring almost constantly. (It took longer, and I had very small beets. After the 5 minutes I had to add a little water and cover to simmer for an additional 5 minutes.)

4. Lower heat to medium.

5. Toss in your syrup and lemon. Stir fry for 1-2 minutes more to caramelize the beet juice/syrup mixture but don’t let it burn or you’ll have bitter beets. Sprinkle with salt.

6. Remove from heat and serve piping hot.

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