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Easy Healthy Lemon Garlic Hummus

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It is easy to make healthy hummus that is satisfying as a snack or a spread. You can use hummus as a dip for vegetables, spread it on corn tortillas for a tostada or add it to a salad. Hummus is naturally gluten free.

Ingredients

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  • 2 cups Garbanzo Beans
  • 1/4 cup Lemon Juice
  • 3 Cloves Garlic (or more, to taste)
  • 1/3 cup Tahini
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 1/4 cup + 1 Tbls Oil, divided
  • 1/4 tsp paprika
  • 1/2 tsp finely chopped parsley

Instructions

  1. Rinse and drain the garbanzo beans.
  2. Put the garbanzo beans, lemon juice, garlic, tahini salt and 1 Tbls of oil into the bowl of a food processor. Blitz until smooth. You may need to pause and scrape down the sides.
  3. With the food processor running, add 1/4 cup of oil slowly until you have a smooth mixture.
  4. Put the hummus in a bowl and garnish with a sprinkle of paprika and some finely chopped parsley.
  5. Store hummus in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to a week.

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Notes

For a smoother hummus you can remove the skins from the garbanzo beans.

You can use dried chickpeas that you have cooked and cooled if you don’t want to use canned.

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