The best recipe for canning beets plain (not pickled).
Prep Time 5minutes
Ingredients
whole unwashed, uncut beets
water
Instructions
Preheat oven to 425° F. Line a shallow baking dish with foil. Cut leaves off beets, leaving 1 inch of stem. Do NOT cut roots or wash. Place unwashed beets on foil and bake for 30 minutes to 1 hour, or until beets are tender and skin will come off easily (time will depend on size of beets).
Let beets cool until you are able to handle them, but do not let them get too cool. Cut off stems and roots and peel beets. Give a quick rinse under water.
You can can small beets (1 inch in diameter) whole. All sized beets you can slice them (1/2 inch thick) or dice them (1/2 inch cubes). Cut up your beets how you wish and put in clean, HOT pint or quart jars, leaving 1 inch headspace.
Boil some water (I use my trusty tea kettle). Slowly pour over beets in jar, leaving 1 inch heaspace. Remove bubbles and adjust headspace, if needed.
Wipe rims of jars with a damp cloth and apply lids to jars. Place jars in prepared pressure canner (please see your pressure canner manual for operation instructions specific to your canner).
Process pint jars for 30 minutes and quart jars for 35 minutes at the pressure for your elevation - See table below.