Roasted Beet and Beet Greens Salad with Apple and Goat Cheese
This beautiful salad really depends on good ingredients: small firm beets with fresh unblemished greens still attached; a crisp tart apple or perhaps ripe fresh peaches or Black Mission figs; and aged goat cheese with a crumbly consistency. Roasting the beets to intensify the sweetness is also a key to the best salad.
Cooks' Note
If the weather is hot and you do not want to roast the beets, boiling them will yield good results, but not as good as roasting.