Scene-Stealing Roasted Beet Salad – Garden & Gun

Ingredients

• ¼ cup sugar
• 1 cup red wine vinegar
• Peel of 1 orange
• 1 sprig fresh rosemary
• ½ tbsp. kosher salt
• 2 medium red onions, julienned
• ¼ cup minced shallot
• ½ tbsp. dry mustard
• ¼ cup bacon fat, rendered from 8 slices thick-cut bacon (reserve and dice cooked bacon)
• ¼ cup red wine vinegar
• 1 cup blended oil (¾ cup canola, ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil)
• ½ tsp. kosher salt
• ½ tsp. black pepper
• 1 cup pecan halves
• 1 tbsp. honey
• 1 tbsp. egg whites
• 1½ tbsp. Creole seasoning
• 3 large red beets
• 3 large golden beets
• 12 oz. mixed lettuce greens
• 4 oz. bacon vinaigrette
• 4 oz. roasted red beets
• 4 oz. roasted golden beets
• 2 oz. pickled onions
• 2 oz. rendered bacon bits
• 2 oz. goat cheese
• 2 oz. spiced pecans