{"id":22,"date":"2010-12-08T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-05-18T09:42:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T21:42:45","slug":"beetroot-dip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/beetroot-dip\/","title":{"rendered":"Beetroot dip"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_XgsTodaivOI\/TP_gDRiZ3lI\/AAAAAAAABQ4\/HsgtmrT5RMs\/s1600\/beetroot-dip.jpg\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_XgsTodaivOI\/TP_gDRiZ3lI\/AAAAAAAABQ4\/HsgtmrT5RMs\/s320\/beetroot-dip.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"288\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">I love baby beetroot, and we got some picked fresh from my sister&#8217;s garden last week. I turned them into a beetroot dip which we served with fish for dinner.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Baby beetroot (5 of them made a dip that served 2 of us for 2 dinners)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Cultured cream, homemade yoghurt or yoghurt &#8220;cheese&#8221; (ie after dripping out the whey). For a\u00a0dairy\u00a0free option, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/2010\/05\/31\/mayonnaise\/\">homemade mayo<\/a> would probably work fine.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">A little himalayan or celtic sea salt<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">You can add extra flavourings,\u00a0though\u00a0I didn&#8217;t this time. Some possibilities (choose one only!):<\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Horseradish cream is a classic\u00a0addition\u00a0(check for non-GAPS ingredients)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">I&#8217;ve used PureWasabi by Coppersfolly as a horseradish substitute before<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Lemon juice, ground cumin, ground coriander seed, crushed garlic<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Or just the lemon juice and cumin<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Trim the beetroot, leaving about a 1cm of stalk and tail. Wash well, but leave the skins on. Put into a pan and cover\u00a0with\u00a0cold water and a little sea salt. Simmer till they can be\u00a0pierced\u00a0with a skewer, approx 45-60 minutes, depending on size. Drain off the water and cover them with cold water, till they&#8217;re cold enough to handle. Slice off the two ends, and you&#8217;ll be able to slip the skins right off.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Put into food processor with a couple of tablespoons of the\u00a0sour\u00a0cream or yoghurt, and zizz. Add more sour cream till it comes to a good\u00a0consistency, and seasonings to taste. (Sorry, I didn&#8217;t measure anything). I didn&#8217;t even take a photo, the one above is pinched from another site. But it&#8217;s there so you can get a rough idea of what the colour and consistency will look like.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">This would \u00a0make a lovely Xmas dinner starter, with a bowl of guacamole and maybe a third bowl of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/2009\/12\/16\/chicken-liver-pate\/\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">chicken liver pate<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">. Make some biscotti from starch free bread, or cut up some vege sticks or chunks to go with it<\/span>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love baby beetroot, and we got some picked fresh from my sister&#8217;s garden last week. I turned them into a beetroot dip which we served with fish for dinner. Baby beetroot (5 of them made a dip that served 2 of us for 2 dinners) Cultured cream, homemade yoghurt or yoghurt &#8220;cheese&#8221; (ie after dripping out the whey). For a\u00a0dairy\u00a0free option, homemade mayo would probably work fine. A little himalayan or celtic sea salt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,9,15,6,7,5,17,3,18,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}