Roasted Sweet Potato Hummus
🥕 Ingrédients
- Sweet potato: the star of the dish! You could also substitute with 1 cup of butternut squash
- Chickpeas: we’re keeping it simple and using canned chickpeas for this recipe.
- Olive oil: you can also use avocado oil or another neutral-tasting oil.
- Garlic: fresh garlic is best here!
- Lemon: a squeeze of lemon juice helps to balance out the flavours in the hummus.
- Spices: paprika, cumin, cayenne, salt and pepper. Feel free to mix it up and add any spices you love.
- Water:Cold water is a key ingredient in making creamy hummus!
👨🍳 Instructions
- Toss the cubed sweet potato and olive oil together and roast in the oven at 400 degrees F for 15-20 minutes until tender.
- Drain and rinse the can of chickpeas and remove the skins by gently rolling the chickpeas in a clean kitchen towel. The skins will naturally come off.
- Discard the skins and add the chickpeas, sweet potato, tahini, garlic, olive oil, salt, paprika, cumin, cayenne and lemon juice to afood processorand blend for 1 minute, scraping down the sides as needed.
- With thefood processorrunning, slowly add the water and let everything blend for another minute or until smooth and creamy.
- Serve with crackers, pita chips cut up veggies or whatever you like!