Roasted Beet And Walnut Dip

Beet dip earns its color easily and its flavor with more difficulty, because beets on their own are sweet and one-dimensional.

Toasted walnuts, tahini and enough lemon give it the bitterness and acid it needs to be worth eating.

Roasted beets and boiled beets are not interchangeable here. Roasting concentrates the sugars, and boiling leaves them in the water.

Walnuts bring the bitterness that stops the dip from tasting like sweetened earth.