Hazelnut oil vinaigrette over beet and goat cheese salad with candied hazelnuts make the ultimate elegant salad! It only requires a few ingredients and gives a major WOW factor to any meal. 
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Hazelnut Oil
Hazelnut oil comes from Hazelnuts. I prefer Laurel Foods brand from Oregon as it is so pure and has great flavors.
Oregon boasts an ideal climate for growing the world’s highest quality hazelnuts. It’s in this corner of the world where temperate ocean, mountain and river climates meet with rich volcanic soils to create prime hazelnut-growing country.
Laurel Foods Hazelnut Oil celebrates the world’s highest quality hazelnuts and is a healthy and delicious addition to your kitchen. Excellent for salad dressings, marinades, baked goods or as an ice cream topping. They don’t filter their oil, which gives it a delicious and subtle hazelnut flavor.
It works great in all kinds of recipes that typically use olive oil. Our crab stack and easy bruschetta chicken are fantastic with hazelnut oil!
Beet and Goat Cheese Salad
This salad is so delicious and is definitely a show stopper! You can always make it easier by just putting the ingredients together with diced beets and crumbled feta. It’s not necessary to stack it but it sure does make a great presentation.
I had one similar at our local fancy restaurant, Painted Pony, and since then, I have wanted to recreate one myself! It wasn’t too hard and I love that the few simple ingredients just shine.
You can easily boil and peel the beets yourself or you can buy the already cooked for a bit easier route. Get creative with your goat cheese flavors too. You can go plain or you can get a flavored variety to change it up.
How to make beet and goat salad
Step 1: Roll goat cheese between two pieces of parchment paper to about 1/2 inch thick
Step 2: Using a small cutter, cut out discs
Step 3: Cut beets into discs then use the same cutter to cut them down to the same size as the goat cheese
Step 4 and 5: Starting with beets, stack every other beet and goat cheese ending with beets
How to make hazelnut vinaigrette
Step 6: Add thinly sliced shallots and apple cider vinegar to a small bowl
Step 7: Add salt and pepper to the shallot mixture
Step 8: Add hazelnut oil (Laurel Foods) and whisk
Step 9: Add shallots on top of the beet and goat cheese stack
Pro Tip: Use shallots, they are so much more flavorful than onions…
Step 10: Drizzle with hazelnut oil vinaigrette
Step 11: Bring sugar and water to a boil then continue to cook until caramel colored
Step 12: Add hazelnut, cover then remove with a slotted spoon immedietely
Candied Hazelnuts
Hazelnuts are super delicious on their own but when they are candied, they become a sweet little treat. You an enjoy them as a snack but they are also great on meals like this beet and goat cheese stack.
Plus, you only need three simple ingredients to make them…Hazelnuts, sugar and water. Get creative and turn candied hazelnuts into art like Liv for Cake does.
Hazelnut Butter
There is no such thing as too many hazelnuts. Adding hazelnut butter in place of the peanut butter in your gluten-free peanut butter bars, dipped peanut butter chocolate chip sandwich cookies, or gluten-free monster cookies gives it a fantastic new level of flavor!
It a fantastic nut butter for sweet and savory recipes. It even makes a great HB & J sammie!
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Hazelnut Oil Beet and Goat Cheese Salad with Candied Hazelnuts
Ingredients
- 2 cooked beets, peeled
- 4 oz goat cheese
- fresh dill garnish
- 1/2 shallot (small and thinly sliced)
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 3 tbsp hazelnut oil (Laurel Foods works great)
- pinch of salt and pepper
- 1/4 C hazelnuts
- 1/2 C sugar
- 1/4 C water
Instructions
- Roll goat cheese between two pieces of parchment paper to about 1/2 inch thick
- Using a small cutter, cut out discs
- Cut beets into discs then use the same cutter to cut them down to the same size as the goat cheese
- Starting with beets, stack every other beet and goat cheese ending with beetsHow to make hazelnut vinaigrette
- Add thinly sliced shallots and apple cider vinegar to a small bowl
- Add salt and pepper to the shallot mixture
- Add hazelnut oil (Laurel Foods) and whisk
- Add shallots on top of the beet and goat cheese stack
- Drizzle with hazelnut oil vinaigrette
- Bring sugar and water to a boil then continue to cook until caramel colored
- Add hazelnut, cover then remove with a slotted spoon immedietely
Patti Lambert says
Never been a big beet fan, but this recipe could change my mind
Liz A says
I love how fancy this looks, but how simple it is! Must make!
Sarah Gibbs says
The incorporation of goat cheese I love goat cheese
Dynal Roberson says
I personally love beets, sadly no one else in my family does so I may have to skip this one.
Jeremy McLaughlin says
Like the variety of the ingredients.