Avocado hummus is a new version of the creamy, healthy, and delicious Middle Eastern sauce perfect for pairing with chips, crackers, veggie sticks, or even as a spread for making delicious vegetarian sandwiches! A combination of hummus and guacamole that you will not be able to do without! Already making basil hummus, we discovered how the traditional recipe is extremely versatile, perfect for enriching with the ingredients we prefer. Making avocado hummus confirmed this!
This sauce is also gluten-free, vegan, protein-rich, and dairy-free. Additionally, we add avocado, which is rich in calcium, potassium, fiber, and polyunsaturated fats, i.e., good fats that help fight cholesterol and diabetes.
The recipe is extremely simple: blend all the ingredients until you get a creamy and delicious sauce! It’s ready in just a few minutes!
For the preparation, you can use either dried chickpeas to soak overnight and cook in cold water or canned chickpeas that just need to be drained from the preservation water. Other essential ingredients are obviously lemon juice that gives a sour note to the hummus, tahini sauce that you can buy or make at home, very ripe avocados, oil, and spices like cumin. To make the sauce even creamier, just add water or ice cubes.
Since traditionally hummus is served with pita bread, this version with avocado is also perfect for accompanying this type of bread in addition to naan bread, or along with croutons, nachos, or crackers. It is also perfect with raw vegetable sticks like celery, carrot, fennel, zucchini, or for filling bruschetta, sandwiches, bagels, toast, or even to season pasta or rice. Try it for lunch, dinner, as an appetizer, or as a snack!
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- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Economical
- Preparation time: 5 Minutes
- Cooking methods: No cooking
- Cuisine: Middle Eastern
- Seasonality: All seasons
- Energy 160.20 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 13.69 (g) of which sugars 1.02 (g)
- Proteins 5.07 (g)
- Fat 9.89 (g) of which saturated 1.23 (g)of which unsaturated 5.09 (g)
- Fibers 5.35 (g)
- Sodium 251.75 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 50 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients to prepare Avocado Hummus
- 14 oz cooked chickpeas
- 2 avocados
- 0.7 oz tahini
- lemon juice
- extra virgin olive oil
- sesame seeds
- salt
- pepper
- 1 clove garlic
- ground cumin
Tools to prepare avocado hummus
- 1 Food Processor
Steps
Prepare the Avocado Hummus first by cooking the dried chickpeas if you plan to use this type of legume. Soak them in cold water for at least 8 hours or overnight, then cook them in a pot full of water for at least two hours from when boiling starts or until tender. Turn off the heat, drain them, and let them cool. If using canned chickpeas, simply drain them from the preservation water and rinse.
Pour the chickpeas into the bowl of a food processor or blender.
Cut an avocado in half, remove the pit, peel it, and add it to the bowl with the chickpeas.
Add the garlic clove and mint leaves.
Finally, add the tahini, lemon juice, olive oil, cumin, salt, and pepper.
Blend until smooth, homogeneous, and not too dense. To reach the desired consistency, you can add water or some ice cubes.
Pour the prepared avocado hummus onto a plate and garnish with sliced avocado, extra virgin olive oil, and sesame seeds.
Your sauce is ready to be served!
Simo and Cicci recommend
Store Avocado Hummus in the fridge for up to 5 days in a tightly sealed container. You can also freeze it for up to 3 months. In this case, let it thaw in the fridge and blend it again to reach the right consistency.
If you have difficulty finding tahini, you can make it at home using ourrecipe based on sesame seeds. Alternatively, you can use peanut butter or other nut butter.
You can serve this hummus with pita bread, homemade crackers, or zucchini sticks.
You can add spices like cumin, paprika, za’atar, chili, etc.
