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Pumpkin Hummus

I’m not the most interesting person when it comes to lunches. In fact at work, I eat the same lunch every day. That’s right. Every. Single. Day. In a life full of decisions about food (I teach Hospitality and Food Technology), one less is always welcome. Come school holidays though and I am equally boring. I look at the cupboard for a while before making myself vegemite toast.

These holidays, I decided I was going to be more adventurous, though by Wednesday of the first week, the most adventurous I had got was canned tuna one day, and fruit toast with plum jam another day. Finally on Thursday I got my act together and made something a little more gourmet (pronounce gor-mit). I whipped up this pumpkin hummus in between blanching broccoli, making jam, and wrapping up freshly made lamb mince for the freezer. The kids had spent an hour up at their grandparents house, and when they returned I popped this in front of them. The whole family scoffed it down in the most undignified manner, so clearly it was hit.

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Pumpkin Hummus
 
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Prep time
10 mins
Total time
10 mins
 
Author: Jo @ Country Life Experiment
Recipe type: Dip
Serves: 3c
Ingredients
  • 1 x 300g can chickpea
  • 1½ c roasted pumpkin
  • 2 roasted garlic cloves
  • 2T tahini
  • 1½ t cumin
  • 1t sugar
  • ½ t chilli powder (adjust according to taste)
  • juice of 1 lemon
  • 2T olive oil
  • salt
Method
  1. Rinse the chickpeas well under running water
  2. Place all the ingredients except olive oil in a food processor. You may want to hold back the chilli powder and adjust according to your taste.
  3. Process until the mixture is smooth and combined.
  4. Drizzle in the olive oil as it is processing.
  5. Adjust the seasoning and chilli level.
  6. Serve.
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  1. Fashionista says

    October 5, 2015 at 1:26 pm

    Thank you for this inspiration. I have just been lurking around my recipe books looking for something different to use up the approximately 263kg of pumpkin we have acquired through the kindness of friends. OK 263kg is possibly an exaggeration, it might be only 178kg.

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  2. Laura says

    October 3, 2015 at 6:29 pm

    I loooove hummus and have been meaning to mix it up with flavours for ages…thanks for the inspiration!

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  3. bakeplaysmile says

    October 3, 2015 at 8:47 am

    Hummus is by far my favourite dip!!! This recipe is so simple and yet you just know it would taste amazing. Adding to my list! Thanks for joining our Fabulous Foodie Fridays party! xx

    Reply
  4. Malinda (@MBPaperPackages) says

    October 2, 2015 at 5:48 pm

    I’d scoff that down too – delicious flavours. #FFF

    Reply

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