Recipe: Sweet Potato Hummus

Are you in the mood for a sweet or spicy hummus? Change up your basic hummus by adding spices to create a unique flavor, depending on your taste preference.

 Food weight: 0.5

INGREDIENTS:

Yield: 16 servings (1 Serving = 2 Tablespoons)

Ingredients:

·         1 medium sweet potato, washed

·         1-15 oz of garbanzo beans, rinsed, drained

·         2 Tbsp of olive oil

·         1 Tbsp of tahani (optional)

·         Choose your spices: Sweet or Spicy

o   Sweet: 1 tsp of cinnamon, 1 tsp of pumpkin spice

o   Spicy: 1/2 tsp of cayenne pepper, 1/2 tsp of paprika, 1 tsp of cumin 

DIRECTIONS:

Directions: Pre-heat oven to 400 ºF. With a fork, poke holes in the sweet potato all over (both sides). Place the sweet potato on a baking sweet and bake for 45-60 minutes until you can squeeze it. Once the baked potato is cooked, remove the skin and chop it into pieces. Add the chopped sweet potato and the other hummus ingredients into a blender and mix the hummus until it becomes a smooth consistency with no visible chopped pieces of sweet potato. Taste the hummus and add more spices as needed.

Nutrition Information Per Serving: Food weight: 0.5, Calories: 60 kcal, Fat 2: g, Cholesterol: 0 mg, Carbohydrate: 8g, Dietary Fiber: 1 g, Protein: 2 g, Sodium: 85 mg