Oven Roasted Beets in Foil

Learn how to make perfect whole roasted beets, baked in aluminum foil in the oven! You can use them in salads, baked goods, smoothies, and more.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine American

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 1

Total Time 1 15

Servings

Calories 77kcal

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C). Prepare 3 squares of aluminum foil and set aside.
Trim the roots and stems (and the leaves if you have them) from the beets. Scrub each beet under running water with a vegetable brush, your hands, or a paper towel to remove dirt.
Place each beet in the center of a square of foil. Drizzle a little bit of olive oil on each beet and rub the oil over the skin, using your hands or a brush.
Fold the foil over each beet, then fold in the sides to make a sealed packet.
Place the foil packets on a baking sheet. Transfer the baking sheet to the oven. Roast for 45 to 60 minutes, until the beets are tender when pierced with a fork (the fork should glide right through them without much resistance).
Remove the beets from the oven. If you want to use them immediately and don't need to keep them warm, carefully open the foil packets using oven mitts (watch out for the steam). To speed up the cooling process, you can slice the beets in half and/or run them under cold water.
Once the beets are cool enough to handle, rub the beets with your hands to remove the skin with your fingers.
Use the beets in salads, baked goods, smoothies, and more!
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Try to get beets that are about the same size so that they take a similar amount of time to cook. If you have some large and some small beets, you can slice the large beets in half to make them closer in size to the small beets. Alternatively, you can put a few small beets into one foil packet to make them closer in size to the large beets. Or you can just keep the beets as they are and remove the smaller ones from the oven before the larger ones.
Roasted beets will last for up to a week in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
To avoid staining your hands, wear gloves when handling beets or wash your hands frequently.