I don’t know about you, but I never need an excuse to eat hummus. When I first became a vegetarian, I most definitely ate my weight in hummus. It’s one of those magical bean spreads that taste great on anything, be it a salad, a sandwich, with chips or veggies or even by itself. Now, add the magic of roasted beets to that? Let me tell you, a star is born.
I’m quite aware that my beet addiction is quite similar to my quinoa addiction, but with absolutely good reason of course – I can’t get enough of them. I thought of making beet hummus when I realised I hadn’t had hummus in a few months (shocker!!) and I had tons of roasted beets in my fridge. I’ve experimented with adding all sorts of ingredients to hummus, be it roasted bell peppers, copious amounts of roasted garlic and anything else I could have my hands on. A quick google search let me know that I, brainiac of the beets, was unfortunately not the creator of this great hummus phenomenon, but it did at least reassure me that I wasn’t entirely insane for trying this mixture out. It’s safe to say, about 1 ½ cups of beet hummus later in three days, that this was pretty good, no, ridiculously amazing.
Beet hummus is a rich, creamy, velvet smooth hummus dip. The beets add a subtle mellow-ness to the flavour, and a shockingly bright colour that would make this dip the instant star at any party – first from curiosity of the colour, then from realisation of that this is some sort of fairytale-like magical creation that you need to keep eating. It is so smooth it’s almost like it’s whipped hummus butter! You end up with a light dip that you’ll be coming back to over and over and wanting to smother on anything that you can get your hands on. Want to be a fan of the veggie you actually don’t like (celery for me)? Dip it in this hummus. Name it your new favourite veggie because of this hummus. I may change my name to garlic and beets in the kitchen. After this dip, it would be worth the strange looks. No regrets.
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