Today I suggest a lovely starter recipe that looks like a dessert and almost taste like a dessert. The perfect Valentine treat for you and your beloved!
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Valentine’s Day is around the corner and we find plenty of wonderful dessert recipes heart shaped everywhere on the web. But do you have a starter in mind?
Beetroot and goat cheese go perfectly along together and I love the sweet and salty taste from both ingredients together. Make it simple and sophisticated: just whip up a delicious beetroot gazpacho by mixing the needed ingredients,serve in some lovely glasses and top with a lovely goat cheese cream. Some pistachios on top of that and there you go!
This beetroot starter is also very versatile, and you can even imagine to have it for dessert if you are the kind of person who would go for cheese instead of dessert. Or you can serve it as a canapé in very small verrines! Whatever the way you serve it, it will sure be appreciated by your guests!
Beetroot Gazpacho with Goat Cheese Cream
- Yield: serves 6
- Category: Savory
- Cuisine: Gluten-free
Today I suggest a lovely starter recipe that looks like a dessert and almost taste like a dessert. The perfect Valentine treat for you and your beloved!
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Ingredients
Beetroot gazpacho:
- 1 small shallot, peeled and minced
- 1 green apple, peeled, cored, sliced, diced
- 7 oz cooked beetroot
- 1/2 lemon (juice)
- Salt & pepper
Goat cheese cream:
- 7 oz whipped cream
- Salt & pepper
- fresh goat cheese
- Pistachio (optional)
Instructions
- For the gazpacho: peel and mince the shallot. Press half of a a lemon. Mix all the ingredients for the gazpacho in a blender, adding a little bit of water to keep the texture smooth but no too liquid either. Season with salt and pepper and mix one more time.
- Divide evenly in 6 verrines or small glass jars that you fullfill each until two thirds.
- For the goat cheese cream: whisk the whipped cream until you get a firm consistency.
- Gently soften the fresh goat cheese with a rubber spatula. Season the cheese with salt and peppar.
- Fold in 1 tablespoon of whipped cream into the fresh goat cheese. Then fold all the goat cheese into the whipped cream, stirring with a rubber spatula until no lumps remain. Season with salt.
- Transfer the goat cheese cream into a piping bag, and top each verrine with the cream. Decorate with some crushed pistachios (optional).
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Lastly, if you make this Beetroot Gazpacho with Goat Cheese Cream, be sure to leave a comment and give this recipe a rating, letting me know how you liked it. And of course, don’t forget to tag me on Instagram! Thank you and enjoy!
Carrol
Thanks, it’s very informative
swathi
Delicious, I need to make beet gazpacho, never made it, love those goat cheese cream. thanks for sharing with Hearth and soul blog hop, pinning tweeting and sharing in google plus
Delphine Fortin
It’s a super easy recipe. You would love it! Thanks for sharing the love around this recipe!
Heidy@ The McCallums Shamrock Patch
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Besos
Heidy
Maelle
Je craque pour cette recette fraîche et haute en couleurs ! bisous
Delphine Fortin
Ravie que cette recette te plaise !
yas
J’adooooooore le betterave le chèvre un peu moins…ta sublime verrine me ferait bien changer d’avis!!!!!Bisous
Delphine Fortin
Le chèvre passe très bien dans cette recette, mais sinon il est toujours possible de faire la crème avec un autre fromage, type fromage frais. Ravie de te voir par ici au passage 🙂 Bisous
Catherine
Sophisticated indeed, and so very elegant! What a beautiful creative, Del. I love the bright colors in this…I would love to savour a taste of this delicious treat. Pinned for later. Happy Valentine’s Day! xo, Catherine
Delphine Fortin
Sophisticated, elegant, beautiful, creative… wow, thank you so much for your kind words. I’m so happy you like the recipe! 🙂
Sonali- The Foodie Physician
This is hands down the prettiest bowl of soup that I’ve ever seen! Happy Valentine’s Day Del 🙂
Delphine Fortin
Thanks, Sonali! I love pretty things because I strongly believe they taste better, so I did my best 😉
Linda (Meal Planning Maven)
Del, your gazpacho is imaginative, colorful and undoubtedly delicious!
Delphine Fortin
I can confirm the last point, everyone loved it. I made this gaspacho in very small verrines and I had to take several in a row !
Patricia @ Grab a Plate
Ah! This looks and sounds amazing. My idea of a fun meal is all starters & desserts! This would fit right in 🙂
Delphine Fortin
I’m exactly the same, Patricia: starters and desserts are always the best parts of a meal to me, don’t know why! 🙂
sotis
j’adooore et en plus c’est super mimi!!! bisous
Delphine Fortin
Oh, c’est très gentil à toi. Merci beaucoup ! (ps : et en plus c’est bon :P)
Popote et Nature
ça doit être bien sympa , moi j’ai fait des verrines à la betterave, aux noix et au gorgonzola, la betterave se prête bien aux associations avec les fromages , bonne journée Delphine !
tes photos sont bien gourmandes 😉
Delphine Fortin
Oh oui, avec le gorgonzola c’est une superbe idée ! Et des noix en plus !! Je cours sur ton blog 🙂