#193 beets with charred green onions, za’atar, and feta cream

from OTK: Extra Good Things

this is my first recipe from the new cookbook that my dad got me for the holidays! we took a long road trip home this week, and i spent the last day flipping through recipes finding the ones that i wanted to try first. i love beets, and i liked that there was nothing too hard to find in this recipe. that’s probably a skewed take because it does have za’atar and creme fraiche, but i already have the former and the latter i can always find at trader joe’s. it’s a bit more labor intensive than a weeknight recipe - beets are roasted and peeled, onions and lemon are charred, and the food processor is busted out to make the feta cream. the result was an elegant dish that was perfect to spoon over some toasted baguette. there are lots of bitter flavors in here from charred onion and lemon. i did find that the 3 minutes called for to charr the onion on each side too long, and would try 2 minutes next time. i also think this would work better served as a tartine with the feta cream as the spread and the beet mix as a topping.