Mexican red beets salad

Name: Mexican red beets salad
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: mexican
Ingredients: 4 pre-cooked red beets; 1 grapefruit; Salt and pepper; 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar; Fresh or dried basil; Fresh mint (not pictured in the ingredients photo).; 1 small onion (optional)

Easy-peasy Mexican red beets salad you can whip up in less than 10 minutes. Hassle-free side dish that complements most spicy Mexican dishes.

10 minutes

4 persons

Side dishes

Salads

Recipe mexican red beets salad

Made by Véronique

Published at 2015-11-12, this recipe is for 4 persons and takes 10 minutes.

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Updated at: 2025-07-19

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Preparation time

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Time cooking

10 minutes

Total time

10 minutes

Making a Mexican red beet salad - 10 minutes

Preparation is virtually non-existent because we are going to use pre-cooked red beets. You can of course cook your own red beets if you really want to. We wanted to save time and go with the pre-cooked beets instead.

Squeeze juice from the grapefruit and pour that into the big bowl along with the white wine vinegar. Open up the package of pre-cooked red beets, drain any excess liquid and cut into thin slices using your chef's knife and cutting board.

Alternatively, you can use a mandoline for this, but we find that to be quite a hassle cleaning.

Add red beet slices into the big bowl and give them a few minutes to soak into the grapefruit and white wine vinegar mixture. Finely chop up fresh mint leaves (to liking) and/or fresh basil.

Mix into the bowl along with the red beets and juice. Season with salt and pepper and optionally add 1 diced small onion.

Done! that was easy-peasy, right? this dish complements most mexican foods, because of its pungent sourness.

Usually, mexican foods are spicy, and this dish will cancel out some of that heat if needed. Enjoy!