A Butter Bean Alternative to Chickpea Hummus

Butter beans
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Everyone loves hummus; it goes well with lots of meals and is delicious as a dip or on bread. Here’s a way to add some variety to your hummus using butter beans. This will also work with any bean or legume that you fancy as a hummus-style paste!

Ingredients:

  • 1 tin of butter beans
  • 2 tablespoons of tahini
  • 1 tablespoon of olive oil
  • Juice of one lemon
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • Salt

Instructions:

  1. Add your butter beans, tahini, and olive oil to a food processor. It might be helpful to add a bit of the water that came with the tin of butter beans if the mix is too dry. Blend until smooth.
  2. Squeeze the lemon juice into the mixture, and your roughly chopped cloves of garlic. Blend again. Add salt and mix in.
  3. At this point, taste it and add more salt or lemon to suit your preference. It’s now ready to go!