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White Bean Hummus
Recipe courtesy Drop 5 Lbs with Good Housekeeping
- Total Time:
- 15 min
- Prep:
- 15 min |
- Inactive Prep:
- -- |
- Cook:
- --
- Level:
- Easy
- Yield:
- 1 1/2 cups or twenty-four 1 tablespoon servings
Ingredients
- 1 lemon
- One 15-ounce can white kidney (cannellini) beans, drained and rinsed
- 2 tablespoons tahini
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon ground red pepper (cayenne)
- 1 clove garlic
- Paprika, for sprinkling
Directions
From the lemon, grate 1 teaspoon peel and squeeze 2 tablespoons juice. In a food processor with the knife blade attached, combine the lemon peel and juice, beans, tahini, oil, 2 tablespoons water, salt, ground red pepper and garlic. Puree until smooth. Transfer the hummus to a serving bowl. If not serving right away, cover and refrigerate up to 3 days.
To serve, sprinkle the hummus with paprika.
Nutritional information per 1 tablespoon serving: 40 calories, 1 g protein, 3 g carbohydrate, 2.5 g total fat (0g saturated), 1 g fiber, 0 mg cholesterol, 60 mg sodium
To Serve:
Serve 1 tablespoon with a choice of dippers:
5 multigrain pita chips, such as Stacy's Multigrain Pita Chips
3 thin whole-grain crackers, such as Ak-Mak
4 whole-grain pretzel sticks, such as Snyder's Organic 8 Grains and Seeds Pretzel Sticks
Total calories with dippers: 100
Alternatively, enjoy more hummus with a choice of crudite:
4 baby carrots 14 calories
4 cherry tomatoes 12 calories
2 tablespoons cannellini hummus 80 calories
TOTAL 106 calories
OR
1/4 cucumber, sliced 11 calories
1/4 red pepper, cut into strips 9 calories
2 tablespoons cannellini hummus 80 calories
TOTAL 100 calories
OR
3 broccoli florets 9 calories
1/4 red pepper, cut into strips 9 calories
1 celery stalk, cut into strips 8 calories
4 baby carrots 14 calories
1 1/2 tablespoons cannellini hummus 60 calories
TOTAL 100 calories