Jellied Beetroot Recipe submitted by Lynda
Great with cold meats and salads. Instead of all water to top up, try a drop of port or red wine!
Ingredients for Jellied Beetroot:
- 1lb cooked beetroot, cubed
- One packet of blackcurrant, cherry or raspberry jelly
- ½ pint boiling water to melt jelly
- ¼ pint vinegar
- 2 tbsps lemon juice
- Cold water to make jelly up to a pint
Method for Jellied Beetroot:
- Pack jars with beetroot and pour jelly over.
- Shake jars to ensure no air spaces and further top up if needed. Easy Peasy!
This recipe appeared in the SWRI (Scottish Women’s Rural Institute) cookbook about 30 years ago.
I have been making this for years, I’m in my sixties and my gran taught me how to make it – absolutely delicious! Instead of the water to top up try a drop of port or red wine!
Sounds nice, but what would you serve it with?
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Thanks for this recipe.
How long does it keep for?
Do the jars need to be sterilized? How long does it keep for? Is it ready to eat as soon as it sets or is it best left to mature and if so for how long?
This sounds lovely but what sort of thing would you eat this with ?
Is it malt vinegar in jellied beetroot? thanks
I have been trying to find this recipe, haven’t tried it for about 30 years. Thanks.
It’s a salad dish so you eat it with anything else you would have salads with.
Please can you tell me how long this lasts …I wanted to make some for Christmas presents, but if it’s just a short shelf life I may not bother 🙂
Jellied Beetroot is usually eaten with cold meats and salad.
Sounds like a great relcipe. Can’t wait to try it.
How many jars does this quantity make and do jars need to be
sterilised?
My family didn`t like the sweetness of fruit jellies, can I use gelatine ?
They thought the beet was sweet enough without the taste of other fruit.
Hi there, I have just harvested my Beetroot and want to set some in jelly. Can you advise how long it is likely to store for using this recipe.
Many thanks
At least a week if kept in the fridge.
@Linzeye: it regularly appears on our party tables with cold meats & salad or BBQ so you could use it anywhere you would serve regular beetroot. Enjoy! PS our mob makes it straight into the serving dish.
I first tried beetroot in jelly in Ontario Canada back in the 1970’s, it was also delicious served with cold meats and salad. At the same time I was introduced to carrot cake. We certainly had never heard of this in UK. Now of course it is one of the most popular cakes. I figured it must have come from the days of those pioneering women who would improvise with whatever they had available. Hence a Scottish influence. Amazing how things come around in circles!
Can jellied beetroot be frozen if put into plastic tubs
I can’t see why not.
is the vinegar and lemon juice added to jelly
Yes, add to the jelly when you have dissolved it with the hot water and then top up to a pint with cold water.
Sorry can’t see any answers to the questions already asked that I also need to ask.
A, does this keep & if so how long for?
& B answers itself really dependant on the answer to a! Do the jars need sterilising?
Many thanks, have the beetroot ready cooked & waiting to go, plus raspberry jelly in the cupboard poised as I type.
Apologies just seen the reply to how long it keeps, looks like it will be pickled beetroot with the majority of the cooked beets, will try one batch of jellied though.
I have very fond memories of this growing up in Lincolnshire. Saturday night tea, cheeses, pickles, cold meats and fresh crusty bread, sat on the sofa with my siblings watching Dr Who.
I’m going to make some this afternoon to go with a piece of Stuffed Chine.. an unknown and somewhat forgotten Lincolnshire great.
I have been making jellied beetroot for years…delicious! I make it in a ring mould, when set dip quickly in hot water and turn on to serving plate and fill the centre with drained sweet corn. Looks lovely on buffet table with other salads.
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I made this beetroot jelly recipe and used it to top homemade mackerel pate In individual karcher jars as a starter…..the family loved it!
I have found that jellied beetroot (in well-sealed jars) keeps for months in the fridge.
Freezing it is not so successful: when it is defrosted, the jelly becomes runny and the diced beetroot is rather mushy.
I have some beetroot cooking at the moment and intend to make more of this recipe. We tried it a couple of years ago, it is delicious and in fact kept well in the fridge for longer than two weeks. Apparently it’s popular in New Zealand too as part of a buffet table.
I find the jellied beetroot does last longer than two weeks that is until my brother in law tasted it. Now he has it with pretty much ever meal, so now I have to get the pan going again. Great recipe love it and so easy to make, it’s a winner every time.
Great recipe have made it many times