Beet and Goat Cheese Napoleons
This beautiful appetizer is great to make for special occasions, and layers sweet roasted beets and herbed goat cheese.
How GORGEOUS are these? These beet and goat cheese napoleons look like little colorful cakes!
I first saw these done in an issue of Saveur magazine and I practically fell over when I saw the photo. There’s something really festive about these beet and goat cheese stacks.
While they are a little bit of time to put together, it’s completely worth it for a special dinner or during the holidays.
If you’re looking for a simpler preparation of beets, I love these Roasted Beets with lemon, thyme, and pistachios.
To get started, we need some beets:
Wrap them up in foil and roast them for an hour until they’re soft. That’s when you peel them and slice them up. How beautiful are the insides of beets?!
Use a biscuit cutter to cut out circles from the beet slices, then gather up some herbs for the goat cheese. Here I have parsley, sage, and watercress, but use what you’ve got (as long as it isn’t something like cilantro…do herbs like thyme or mint if you want to experiment).
Work the herbs into the softened goat cheese:
Then start putting scoops of goat cheese on the beet slices and stacking them up:
Give it a little smush with your fingers to press out the goat cheese evenly:
Then take a straight edge like a knife to remove the excess goat cheese from the sides. Garnish with the pistachios and watercress, and you’re ready to serve:
Enjoy!
Beet and Goat Cheese Napoleons
Ingredients
- 2 lbs beets golden and/or red
- 11 oz package goat cheese softened (at room temperature)
- 4 sage leaves minced
- 2 tbsp chopped parsley
- salt and cracked pepper
- 3/4 tsp honey
- watercress for garnish
- chopped pistachios for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Wrap the beets individually in aluminum foil. Bake for 1 hour, until a knife is easily inserted into the beet. Let them cool, and peel the skin off. Use a mandolin to slice the beets about 1/4 inch thick. Use a biscuit cutter to cut out beet slice circles.
- Mix the sage and parsley with the goat cheese. Add the honey and season with freshly cracked pepper and salt to taste. Put dollops of goat cheese in between layers of sliced beet, until you get five slices of beet per napoleon. Serve with the chopped pistachios on top and watercress on the plate. Enjoy!
Nutrition
Nutrition is estimated using a food database and is only intended to be used as a guideline for informational purposes.
46 Comments on “Beet and Goat Cheese Napoleons”
Those are just breathtakingly beautiful! They really needed to be up on the BEST food blogger recipe board on Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/bachelorsgrill/best-food-blogger-recipes/
These look absolutely wonderful Joanne. I want to try this but first I have to get over my dislike for beets. But I heard fresh beets are better than the can so I’m gonna try it out one day 🙂
What a great dish! And it looks stunning!
Oodalolly! Those remind me of the yummy goat cheese and beet skewers we had at the Disney lunch. I ate way too many of them….they were so good. Your napoleons look beautiful!!
Those really are gorgeous! I don’t like beets, but you’ve made them look so pretty that I’d definitely eat them like this.
What a neat dish! So pretty and I’m sure very tasty! I love beets- have yet to try the yellow ones. Lovely picts, as usual.
Those are gorgeous! A little time consuming but still easy too – love that!
Great job, congrats! Will be making these when my beets are ready for harvesting.
They are stunning! I wish I liked what they were made from. But I can just look!
These are absolutely gorgeous…if a man can say that. 😉 Classic combination of flavors, given a refreshingly perfect new look!
Okay – yours are SO beautiful! I can’t get over how lovely! BRAVO, girlfriend!
Love both the idea of this combination and the presentation!
wow, this is amazing Joanne. hats off.
They look simply superb to eat. I am getting magnetized by them.
Golden beets? I never saw that color, it’s new for me…!!! But let me tell you something, this recipe is splendid…!!!
Those are gorgeous! The colours are just amazing.