Orange, beet, and fennel salad

A good variation on beetroot and orange salad. The fennel adds a nice crunch and a nice pale pink to go with the dark red of the beetroot and the deep orange-red of the orange.

The taste of this salad is actually quite subtle but its color is not. Children will love the looks of this salad - dark pink on red on pale pink.

Next time I will cut the beetroot much finer, possibly even julienne it. The beetroot is brilliant as a very present background in this salad, but it's not so brilliant to get a great big mouthful of just beetroot.

I don't think this salad will suffer too much if you use precooked beetroot instead of roasting your own.