Child Friendly Hummus

Chickpeas are packed full of fibre, protein and potassium and make for a delicious and healthy addition to your child’s diet!

This is perfect to use as a tasty dip with veggie sticks, as a spread in sandwiches or wraps or even to replace tomato sauce on pizza!

Total time Including Prep: 10 minutes

Top Tip! This freezes excellently so a great one to batch make at the weekend and freeze indiviual portions. Then just remove a portion from the freezer a few hours before you need it!

If you like this, why not try in our delicious Hummus & Veggie Wrap for your child’s lunch this week!

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Ingredients

1 tin of chickpeas – drain & rinse these but keep the liquid.
1 tsp well stirred tahini
1 clove of crushed garlic
1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
2.5 tbsp of olive oil – extra virgin if you have it

Method

The Quick Method:

Add all ingredients bar the olive oil into a blender and blitz until smooth. Add in the olive oil a little at a time and blend until combined. Add in some of the chickpea water if a little thick

The Long Method:

Combine the tahini and lemon juice in a food processor and blitz for 1 minute. scrap the sides and blitz for another 30 seconds. This helps to cream the ingredients together to make your hummus extra tasty and smooth.
Add in the rest of the rest of ingredients bar the chickpeas. blitz for another 30 seconds and scrap down the sides of the bowl.
Add in half the chickpeas and blitz for 1 minute. Scrap down sides of bowl again.
Add in remainder of chickpeas and blitz for 2 minutes until smooth.
If it is a little thick you can add a small bit of the chickpea water and blitz again until your preferred consistency!