Raw Beetroot & Orange Salad

After a little break yesterday (departmental lunch at work so no need for a packed lunch) where I substantially re-vamped my site (very pleased with it now!), I'm back here for the last day of the week with an outrageously colourful, vitamin-filled raw beetroot & orange salad.  This is a salad my mother made for me a few months ago and when she said beetroot with orange I thought she'd really gone mad - it sounded revolting!  But, I tried it and I loved it so I lovingly re-created it for hubbie for lunch. 

I think I'm slowly getting him into beetroot - when he asked what was for lunch, I rattled it off very quickly so that he might not hear the beetroot part and pull a face but he surprised me by saying that he remembered the beetroot &pink grapefruit salad from the other week (see 27 August post) and really liked that.  Let's see how he takes to raw beetroot now...  In hindsight, I think I should have rattled off the part mentioning lettuce and cucumber which he did pull a face at - it sounded a little too salady for his liking I think.  Lucky I put in some leftover cheesy spinach muffins from the other day (which he loved) and mango which is always a treat!  So now onto the recipe...

Raw Beetroot & Orange Salad

1 beetroot (peeled and grated - I always use a foodprocessor for the grating - quicker and less messy!)

segments cut from 2 oranges & their juice (actually it could have done with 3 or 4 oranges but I only had 2 - feel free to add more to your liking)

a little lime juice (due to my lack of oranges I needed to add a little more acidity - unnecessary if you have the requisite number of oranges)

a drizzle of flavourless oil

salt and pepper

Stir together... et voila!  It's that easy!