I was introduced to smoked beets as a sandwich filling, and it’s still one of my favorite ways to enjoy them. As I’ve been explaining in my most recent Twice as Tasty columns for the Flathead Beacon, beets need to be cooked—preferably roasted—and peeled before you smoke them, so it is an extra step. But smoking makes them twice as tasty.

The flavor and texture of smoked beets make them a natural fit for a Vegetarian Smoked-Beet Reuben, but you can slide them in with any sandwich fixings you have at hand. They hold up well against robust ingredients, so the recipe in this week’s column suggests mustard, roasted garlic, goat cheese, and arugula and other spicy greens. Mellower layers include aioli, egg salad, and sliced avocado. Create an even more filling sandwich by spreading on hummus or another bean dip.

Learn more about cooking beets and get the complete recipe for Goat Cheese and Smoked-Beet Sandwiches in my column.

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Twice as Tasty

For Twice as Tasty (with capital Ts) sandwiches, I make the bread and as many fillings as possible from scratch. In the sandwich pictured in this week’s column, I used homegrown and home-smoked beets, homegrown mixed greens, and these recipes:

• Sourdough Cabin Bread
• Roasted Garlic
• Homemade Fromage Blanc, a cow’s milk version of chèvre
• German-Inspired Spicy
  Mustard in The Complete Guide to Pickling

These recipes on the blog are among some of my other favorite sandwich layers to accompany smoked beets. You can find more in the recipe index.

• Sourdough Rye Bread
• Apple and Cabbage Kraut in The Complete Guide to Pickling
• Garlic Scape Aioli
• Sweet Vinegar-Pickled Eggs mashed with Homemade Small-Batch Yogurt
• Grilled Onion Guacamole
• Spiced Red Lentil Dip

You can also use smoked beets in tasty fall salads, like the one with golden beets and apples in this blog post.

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