Easy Beetroot Dip Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What Flavours compliment beetroot? ›

Bright, refreshing citrus fruits like oranges, grapefruit, lemons, and limes all complement the earthy beet flavor. They add a tangy, tart note that helps cut through the vegetal taste. Citrus also provides valuable vitamin C and antioxidants.

Place the 450g can chopped beetroot, drained, 400g can chickpeas, rinsed, drained, 2 garlic cloves, roughly chopped, 1 tbsp tahini (sesame paste) (see note) and 1 tbsp lemon juice in the bowl of a food processor and whiz to a coarse paste.

Beetroot is rich in Valuable Nutrients… immune-boosting vitamin C and essential minerals like potassium and manganese and folate.

Fruits and Vegetables that Pair Well with Beets

Here are some of my favorite ingredients for beet juice blends: Fruits: oranges, grapefruit, lemon, lime, pineapple, mango, strawberries, raspberries, apples, pears. Veggies: carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, celery, spinach, kale, ginger, turmeric, parsley, mint.

With only a few exceptions, canned beetroot has about the same nutritional value as fresh beetroot. Fresh beetroot has double the phosphorus, potassium and folate, but 1 cup of sliced, canned beetroot has 14 percent of the recommended daily intake of folate and 4 percent of phosphorus and potassium.

Eating beets raw or juicing and roasting them may be more beneficial than boiling them. Beetroots, commonly known as beets, are a vibrant and versatile type of vegetable. They're known for their earthy flavor and aroma. Many people call them a superfood because of their rich nutritional profile.

Sometimes beets are peeled before cooking. They may also be scrubbed and cooked until tender with their skins on; the skins slip off fairly easily after cooling. (Some people are happy to leave the skins on; they are fine to eat.)

As I said earlier, tahini has a mildly bitter flavour, so if your hummus is bitter, you've most likely added too much tahini. Also make sure that the tahini you do have is hulled, as opposed to unhulled. Hulled tahini just means that the bitter husks on the outside of the sesame seed have been removed before blending.

If you've become bored by Trader Joe's numerous other hummus offerings, if mere edamame hummus strikes you as humdrum, then this novel, beet-centric take on hummus may be just what you're looking for.

If you feel adventurous, try replacing the tahini with an equal amount of peanut butter, sunflower seed butter, Greek yogurt, chopped roasted peppers, pitted olives, roasted beets, steamed sweet potato, avocado, or thawed frozen peas, to name just a few possibilities.

Why do you have to eat hummus within 3 days? ›

For starters, homemade humus will almost always spoil faster because store-bought, which is prepared in sterile and contamination-controlled environments. Homemade varieties will generally last anywhere from 3-4 days, whereas store-bought brands generally lasts 6-7 days after opening.

Store-bought hummus may have a longer shelf life than homemade, depending on how it is prepared. But both varieties should last up to 7 days in the refrigerator (for prepared hummus this applies once the container is opened). Like any food, hummus is perishable and is prone to spoilage.

Traditional hummus has a fat content 4-5 times that of chickpeas alone (Table 1), which may account for the improved blood glucose and insulin response, since dietary fat delays gastric emptying and therefore slows carbohydrate absorption [32,33].

As noted by the University of Vermont, beets taste like a sweet root veggie with a hint of earthiness. Overall, their earthy and sweet flavor is much subtler than their bright color suggests.

Beet lovers will say that beets have a sweet flavor with a hint of floral. If you are a beet hater, you'll probably say it has a dirt-like taste. The taste of beets can change depending on how you prepare and cook them. Beets also come in several varieties, each having a unique taste.