Beetroot and Chickpea Dip

While I don’t go in for starters, even when I have friends over for supper, I am – as I mention often – a dips-with-drinks devotee. This is a new addition to my stable of regulars: the beetroot not only turns the chickpeas a quite ridiculously uplifting pink, but helps you create a soft, slightly fluid texture (though it will thicken on standing), all the better for sticking a tortilla chip or a baby carrot into.

Alongside, I like to bring out a bowl of the green salsa I’ve been mak