Easy Traeger Smoked Beets (Great For Salads)

Name: Smoked Beets Recipe | Sip Bite Go
Prep time: 1 min
Cook time: 120 min
Total time: 121 min
Ingredients: 10 beets (fresh, 2-3 inches, red (or yellow or orange), skin on); 1 tbsp dill (fresh); 1 tbsp red wine; 2 tsp olive oil; 1 tsp honey; 1 tsp lemon (juiced (substitute orange juice)); ¼ tsp garlic salt; Salt and pepper to taste; ¼ cup feta cheese (crumbles (substitute goat cheese)); 1 tbsp almonds (slivered); ⅛ tsp black pepper (fresh cracked); 1 cup arugula

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These easy Traeger smoked beets use only one ingredient and are SO TASTY. They smoke on the pellet grill in just a couple of hours and require 1 minute of prep time. Let’s cook ‘em up…

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Traeger Side Salad with Smoked Beets and Feta — You’ll also see how I used this recipe to make smoked beet salad with feta or goat cheese and fresh herbs.

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Why is this recipe for smoking beets so good?

Smoke them SKIN ON. (it’s easier!)
Beets cooked in a smoker on medium heat (300 degrees F) pick up a TON of smoky flavor.
See how to serve this dish as a smoked beet salad.
Use red beets or any variety you’d like.
New to Traeger recipes? See my step by step video for beginners (scroll to bottom of page).

Ingredients

Here’s what you need to make this smoked beet recipe.

Bowl of raw red beets on Traeger smoker grill

For simple smoked beets

Fresh beets (about 2-3 inches, skin on)

Also see this recipe for smoked peaches…

Smoked beet salad dressing (optional)

Dill
Red wine
Olive oil
Honey
Lemon juice or orange juice
Garlic salt
Salt and pepper

Smoked beet salad ingredients for toppings (optional)

Feta cheese crumbles (or goat cheese)
Almonds
Black pepper
Arugula

Size of beets to use

Root vegetables like beets (and parsnips) are notoriously longer to cook than other vegetables because they are so dense.

The best type of beets to smoke in the pellet grill are on the smaller side, since that will reduce your cook time.

Try beet salad with homemade croutons and pan grilled chicken.

How to smoke beets

Now I’ll walk you through it…

Quick look at smoked beets

Prep beets.
Smoke beets at 300.
Remove beets when they reach 205 degrees F internally.
Let cool, peel, and enjoy.

Smoked beets on a side dish — Let’s just say, smoked beets aren’t the most attractive looking thing when you take them off the smoker…

Detailed recipe steps

Preheat Traeger Grills or Pitt Boss or whatever pellet grill you’re using to 300 degrees F.
Add beets directly to the smoker grill grates, with some space in between them.
Smoke beets for about 2 hours. You’re finishing smoking beets when you can easily pierce them with a fork.
Remove beets from smoker. When the internal temp is about 205 degrees F or higher, as measured with an internal read thermometer, remove beets and let them cool ~10-15 minutes, or until they’re easy to handle with your hands. Use a spoon, knife or fingers (if you want it to look like a crime scene on your cutting board) to remove the beet skins. Dice and serve. (I usually let the beets rest for 25 to 35 minutes before peeling and cutting them).

Traeger Side Dish Smoked Beet Salad Recipe — This is a smoked beet salad made on the Traeger Ironwood 650.

Beet recipes from Sip Bite Go

FAQs

How to smoke beets?

Beets cooked in a smoker are super simple. Start by preheating your smoker to 300 degrees F. Next, add the beets directly to the grill grates and smoke for two hours until they are tender and can be easily pierced with a knife or fork. The internal temperature should be 205 degrees F when cooked. Remove the beets, cool, then peel. Dice and serve in a beet salad with goat cheese.

How long do you smoke beets for?

You smoke beets for two hours at 300 degrees F. You will know when the smoked beets are done because they will be easily pierced with a fork or knife and the internal temperature will be 205 degrees F.

Do you need to season beets before smoking them?

You know, I don’t. Usually I add dice up, add dressing, and use smoked beets in salad recipes. So they have plenty of flavor for eating them. But you can rub with olive oil and sprinkle beets with sea salt before adding them to the pellet grill.

What to serve with beets?

Serve beets with dinner main dishes like smoked salmon, smoked ribeye steak, this yummy pork belly burnt ends recipe, or tri tip in oven. I also like to make them in a big batch to enjoy chilled or at room temperature throughout the week with easy meals like frozen chicken patties in air fryer, or a homemade hamburger patty.

More Tasty Grill + Smoker Recipes

See this Traeger Flatrock grill review.

See my favorite smoker tools and seasonings in my Amazon Storefront.

Meat thermometer recommendations

Every home chef needs a reliable meat thermometer to cook food perfectly.

On Sip Bite Go, you’ll often see me using:

Meater thermometer – a fancy wireless thermometer that connects to a phone app – gifted to me from a Traeger partnership.
ThermoPro digital thermometer – which has a wire that connects the thermometer to a display box outside the oven/grill.

It’s like being psychic! The great thing about either of the thermometers above is that I don’t have to take the food out of the oven to know the temperature.

How to use ‘em… What I do is stick the digital thermometer in steak, pork, chicken, whatever… Then put the food in the oven, on the smoker, or grill.

While the meat cooks, it reads the temperature so I know exactly what temp meat is as it’s cooking. Without having to take it out and check. It’s really difficult to overcook food when you know exactly what temp it is inside!

Why I wrote this recipe

I love all the good meats to make on the Traeger, but vegetables are something I try to get creative with as much as possible. Because: nutrition.

Vegetables in season inspire me, and beets have been a particular favorite of mine since my grandma made farm-fresh beets for me as a child.

This recording of smoking beets almost didn’t happen.

I was smoking them the night the electricity kept going out in the Dallas area – we were having a lot of thunderstorms – and so they took forever to finish.

See why I moved to Dallas… (spoiler: family life PLUS there’s good BBQ here)

Luckily, I know my favorite time and temperature and was just getting the recipe recorded, but that’s why you’ll see in the video I finished them when it was very dark out.

The grill kept going on and off (the Traeger is run on pellets but actually powered by electric).

And so they weren’t ready to eat until the next day because I didn’t finish them until 10pm!

Are you a foodie, too?

Hey home chefs, hope that answers all your questions about smoker beets.

Soon I’ll have a new recipe for smoked cornbread and smoked baked beans. I’ll also be sharing more grilling recipes, Blackstone griddle recipes, and electric smoker tips.

Until then, check out this smoked mac and cheese and this smoked corn on the cob side dish using the Traeger.

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