Easy Creamy Garlic Beetroot Hummus Recipe
An easy, homemade recipe for Garlic Beetroot Hummus! This delicious and vibrant, homemade hummus is great to spread on toast, use in sandwiches and wraps, and dip into with crackers or fresh veggies of choice.
Servings: 4 -5 servings
Ingredients
- 2 cups cooked chickpeas skins removed
- 1 small roasted or steamed beet about the size of 1 and a half golf balls, more if you'd like a richer colour and flavour
- 3-4 cloves garlic raw or roasted
- 4-5 tablespoons tahini more as desired
- iced water as needed
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp salt
- optional but recommended
- 2 tablespoons unsweetend non-dairy yogurt
- pinch of paprika
- 1/2 tsp cumin
Instructions
- Add chickpeas and lemon juice to your food processor, and begin to purée until fairly smooth. Next, add your beets and garlic and purée again until smooth.
- Next add tahini and non-dairy yogurt if using and you guessed it--purée again until completely smooth, this time giving your food processor 2-3 minutes to blend.
- If you'd like to adjust texture, you can add in cold water by the tablespoon, purée-ing every time you add to the mixture.
- Once you're happy with the texture, add salt, purée to distribute, and any additional spices.
Notes
Secrets to Success
- For best results, I recommend roasting your beets beforehand or steaming them. Steaming is quicker and in my opinion, less messy, however roasting is a great way to mellow out the beet flavor. You can use pre-cooked beets sold at the grocery store, but for the best color payoff, you'll want to prep them at home yourself.
- If using canned chickpeas, opt for chickpeas with no added ingredients (salt is ok!). It also helps the texture if you remove the chickpea skins. You can skin the chickpeas by laying them out on a kitchen towel, covering them with another towel, and rubbing them back and forth to help loosen them up. Trust me when I say it helps to really achieve the creamiest hummus compared to store-bought options. Also, if you'd like to cook your chickpeas from scratch, you can opt to do that as well.
- To add to the texture, we're also adding tahini, which is a used ingredient when making traditional hummus anyway. Since we aren't adding oil, tahini will add the fat to the recipe and also give us maximum creamy texture. You can also add a non-dairy yogurt of choice (make sure it's unsweetened and plain, don't use vanilla!), which really fluffs it up even more.
- Finally, to amplify the garlic flavor in this recipe, I like to use roasted garlic instead of raw garlic. I have a great oil-free roasted garlic recipe on the blog you can check out here!