We’re making it easier than ever to eat your veggies and enjoy them with this recipe for Roasted Beets and Carrots with Whipped Farmer Cheese. Lifeway’s creamy, cultured farmer cheese is packed with complete protein, live probiotics, and it’s terrific when whipped into a savory spread to serve with roasted veggies and fresh herbs.
Beets and carrots are abundant and in season during spring, so it’s the perfect time to enjoy them. When roasted, these veggies take on complex sweet, caramelized flavors that make them a true delight to enjoy. Their texture softens and becomes sweet and tender, which acts as the perfect contrast to Lifeway Farmer Cheese.
Our cheese’s mild flavor and light texture allows spices and seasonings to shine, so it’s easy to use in just about any recipe you can think of. Here, we combined it with fresh chives, basil, and tarragon for a delicious assortment of spring flavors you’re sure to love.
Prep these roasted veggies in a large batch on the weekend, then you can enjoy them all week long after a quick reheat. Just be sure to wait to top them with the farmer cheese mixture until after warming them up if serving them as leftovers for the best texture and to best preserve the probiotics in our farmer cheese.
Find Lifeway Farmer Cheese in stores near you here, and learn more about how to use it in all your favorite recipes here!
The Benefits of Cultured Dairy for Better Health:
Research continues to show the importance of eating healthy foods, including cultured dairy such as kefir, for optimal digestion and gut health, a strong immune system, and to support the microbiome. Fermented foods like kefir hold important value in this line of research due to the link between the gut-brain axis and overall health. Specifically, kefir has been shown to help diversify the microbiome, improve digestion, reduce inflammation, support healthier blood sugar levels, and improve satiety since the bioavailable protein it contains triggers the release of GLP-1.
Lifeway Kefir is packed with a variety of vital nutrients important for overall health, including bone and muscle health; these include vitamin D3, K, calcium, and vitamin B12. Along with our probiotic-rich kefir, Lifeway also offers artisan-made Farmer Cheese, a creamy, high-protein cheese made with live and active cultures to support healthy muscles and a healthy microbiome. Lifeway Farmer Cheese is easy to spread, free of gums and thickeners, and contains no added salt or sugar for optimal health benefits.
Prep Time: 1 hour Servings: 4Ingredients
For the Roasted Veggies:
- 2-3 large carrots
- 2 beets (any color)
- 1 small yellow onion
- 1/2 tsp. garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp. black pepper
- 1/4 tsp. sea salt
- 1 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil
- juice of 1 lemon
Whipped Farmer Cheese Cream:
- 1 1/2 cups Farmer Cheese
- juice of a lemon
- 1/2 tbsp. fresh basil, minced
- 1/2 tbsp. fresh tarragon, minced
- 1 tbsp. fresh scallions or chives, minced
- pinch of salt and pepper
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 400° F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- Wash the carrots, beets, and onion, and remove the stems (and peels), and cut them up into 1 inch cubes. Add them to a large bowl, and add the juice of a lemon, the olive oil, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Toss to coat them well.
- Spread them out on the baking pan lined in parchment paper, and roast for 35-45 minutes, or until they start to caramelize and turn golden on top. Remove from the oven, and make sure they're fork tender. If so, they're done.
- While the veggies cool a little, prepare the whipped farmer cheese mixture. In a food processor, whip the farmer cheese together with the lemon juice, herbs, salt, and pepper.
- Plate the veggies and dollop them with the whipped farmer cheese mixture.* Enjoy!
- *If you have leftovers, wait to serve the farmer cheese mixture until you reheat the veggies (keep separate in the fridge).
