Heart Beets With Goat Cheese

• Small log of herbed goat cheese
• Raw beets
• Pistachios
• Olive oil
• Balsamic vinegar
• Arugula
• Lemon juice and zest

1. Preheat oven to 425u0b0F. Wrap beets tightly in foil, making 2 packages, and roast in middle of oven until tender, about 1 1/4 hours.
2. Unwrap beets and let cool. Don't turn the oven off.
3. While beets are cooling, toast pistachios in a pan until just slightly brown, then coarsely crush them and reserve.
4. Once the beets are just cool enough to handle, slip off skins and remove stems.
5. Cut each beet into slices, then cut out a heart shape with a small cookie cutter.
6. Put beets into Pyrex dish with olive oil, salt, and pepper, and roast until beets are hot and tender, about 15 minutes more.
7. Remove beets and layer with goat cheese inside the cookie cutter, then push out, to create little "sandwiches" or "napoleons"
8. Mix olive oil from Pyrex with lemon juice and zest and balsamic vinegar. Place beets on a bed of arugula and drizzle with oil and vinegar mixture and top with crushed pistachios.

goat cheese, beets, pistachios, olive oil, vinegar, arugula, lemon juice

Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/heart-beets-with-goat-cheese-52676091 (may not work)