Add a pop of color and flavor to your meal with this easy recipe for creamed beets. With just a few ingredients, you can create a delicious and nutritious side dish.

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Easy Beet Recipe Ingredients

Heavy Cream
Butter
Green Onions (Scallions)
Fresh Beets
Salt
Black Pepper

I love how easy this recipe is to throw together on the stove. The hardest part is taking the time to properly cook the beets before hand.

The original author from my cookbook called Vegetables on the Side recommends baking the beets first for the best tasting creamed beet recipe. However, if you’d rather steam or boil them, it would still be tasty.

Baking the beets is quite simple, it just takes some time. Trim the beet stems to around 1 inch; then, lightly spray with nonstick cooking spray, or give them a rub down with some oil (such as olive oil). Bake on a sheet pan (I line mine with aluminum foil) in a preheated 325 degree F oven until tender. For a small beet, this could be around 30 minutes, or for a large beet up to a couple hours. Our friend Leah has this post about roasting beets.

Old Fashioned Creamed Beets Recipe

I am pulling out every old fashioned vegetable recipe that I can find. That’s because it’s garden season.

I’m to the point that I literally have veggies in every nook and cranny of my kitchen. I have to take a deep breath, and give myself a pep talk. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love this time of year. I love having fresh fruits and veggies, but it is a bit overwhelming.

I love this old fashioned cream beets recipe. It’s something different that my usual Pickled Beets or Beet Salad. It pairs great as a side dish with steak or fried pork chops.

How to Make Creamed Beets?

Step by Step Instructions

To prepare beets, trim off beet greens leaving around 1 inch of stem intact. Lightly oil with cooking spray, and place beets uncovered on a sheet pan or baking sheet. Cook in a preheated 325 degrees F until tender up to 2 hours for a large beet. Cool the beets, peel off the skin and dice into small pieces.
In a medium saucepan or skillet, simmer heavy cream over medium heat until reduced by half, around 5 to 7 minutes.
Melt butter in a separate skillet or saucepan over low heat.
Cook the onions for approximately one minute, stirring occasionally.
Stir in the beets and reduced cream.
Season well with salt and black pepper. Cook until heated through.
Serve hot.

Storage Instructions

Let the leftovers cool completely. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 3 to 5 days.

For the full ingredient amounts and recipe steps for old fashioned creamed beets, scroll to the recipe card at the bottom of this post.

Recipe FAQs

Use red beets or yellow beets.
This creamed beet recipe can easily be cut in half or doubled.
Season generously with salt and pepper to your own taste before serving.
To make it even tastier, garnish with fresh chives.
This would be a perfect side dish to add to your Thanksgiving menu.

Recipe Variations for Creamed Beets

Use fresh red beets or fresh yellow beets.
Instead of baking the beets, try steaming or boiling them instead.
Garnish with fresh herbs such as fresh chives before serving. Fresh dill would be another option.
For less fat, use half and half instead of heavy whipping cream.
Replace green onions with yellow onion, red onion or white onion, if needed.
Slice beets instead of dicing, if preferred.
Minced garlic is always a tasty addition.

Garden Vegetable Recipes

Grandma’s Pickled Beets

Try Grandma's Old Fashioned Pickled Beets Recipe. This is a small batch pickled beets recipe made for the refrigerator. Make these once, and they are sure to be in your summer rotation of garden vegetable recipes.

Mom’s Cucumber and Onions

Mom's Cucumbers and Onions is an old fashioned recipe featuring garden vegetables. The ingredients are simple - cucumbers, onions, salt, vinegar, sugar, celery seed and black pepper, but the finished result is the perfect accompaniment to any summer meal.

Zucchini Fritters

Eggplant Casserole

Old Fashioned Green Beans with Bacon

Kitchen Utensils

What’s the best way to prepare beets?

There’s multiple ways to prepare beets before eating including steaming, microwaving, boiling or baking.

For steamed beets, place the whole beets in a steamer basket; cover an steam for 45 to 90 minutes.

To boil, cover trimmed beets with water and a couple tablespoons of vinegar or lemon juice to prevent bleeding. Simmer over medium heat until tender.

To microwave, place trimmed beets in a microwave safe dish, add approximately a half cup water, and cover and vent with plastic wrap. Microwave approximately 15-20 minutes, turning the beets a couple times in the dish.

For baked beets, trim and lightly oil the beets, place on a sheet pan, and bake in a preheated 325 degree F oven until tender, up to 2 hours.

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