Welcome to snack time, my friends. I did a post about sweet potato hummus last year. But it was lame, and written before I started making it once a week. I pretty much consider myself an expert now, so I thought we’d have a little do-over, ok?
Good. I can’t really remember exactly when I started eating hummus…but it wasn’t all that long ago. I don’t buy it in the store all that often because it’s so freakin’ easy to make yourself…and you can totally customize it to include pretty much any flavor you want.
A couple things:
1) I like adding a sweet potato because it makes it just a little bit sweet.
2) I hate adding tahini, because I don’t like the way it tastes.
3) I don’t add any extra salt to my hummus because it’s totally unnecessary.
So here we go!
Sweet Potato Hummus
Prep Time: 10 min
Keywords: food processor appetizer snack healthy low-sodium vegetarian chickpeas sweet potato
Ingredients (approx 2 cups)
- 2 cans chickpeas, drained & rinsed, 1/4 c liquid reserved
- 1 medium sweet potato
- juice from one lemon
- 1/3 c water
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1/2 – 1 tsp cayenne pepper
- 1/2 – 1 tsp garlic powder (or 1 bulb roasted garlic)
Instructions
Place the chickpeas in a food processor along with 1/4 c reserved liquid and puree for about a minute.
Prick the sweet potato all over with a fork and microwave on high for 5 minutes. Slice the sweet potato in half and scoop the insides into the food processor. Pulse several times.
Add the spices and lemon juice (and the roasted garlic if you’re using it) and turn the food processor on. Slowly add the water until the mixture reaches your desired consistency.
Notes:
*I definitely prefer the roasted garlic over the garlic powder but sometimes I just don’t plan ahead 🙂 Roast the whole head of garlic with a little olive oil and then squeeze all the cloves in. I like my hummus pretty garlicky so feel free to scale back and only use half the cloves if you’d like.
*If you don’t mind the taste of tahini, you could add 1/4 c to make it a little creamier but I’ve found that the sweet potato makes it pretty creamy.
*If you want to make my favorite hummus of all time, roast a red pepper along with the garlic and add that into the food processor too 🙂
Serve with your favorite crackers or veggies!
What’s your favorite kind of hummus? I’m always looking for new combos!
Enjoy!
–Lindsay–
Mmm–this looks so good, I love homemade hummus! I should try this because I’m so in love with sweet potatoes. My favorite kind of hummus is roasted red pepper!
LOVE how easy hummus is to make. This sounds delish!
I love fall root veggies – looks delicious!
What a great idea! Love it!
Lindsay, you are so creative in the kitchen! This recipe looks delicious. My favorite hummus is either spicy three pepper or Sabra’s Pine Nut..Mmmm
Oh man, I’m all over this! Hummus and sweet potatoes are two of my favorite foods 🙂
Will definitely be making this soon! I eat so much hummus and always feel like I’m just throwing money away when (as you said) it’s so easy to make at home. How long will this recipe last you and how long will it keep in the refrigerator?
I’m pretty boring when it comes to hummus flavors. I usually roll with roasted garlic and am obsessed with it!
This looks amazing sweetheart 😀
I am a roasted garlic type of hummus gal 😉
I’m a huge sweet potato & hummus fan so this dish looks amazing. Perfect appetizer for thanksgiving.
yum! i made pumpkin hummus last weekend… amazing!
Looks great! I’ve never thought to add sweet potato into hummus, but it’s really an awesome idea!
What a great idea! I just recently started making hummus and was looking for ways to jazz it up!
i’ve posted it on my blog before, but i can’t get enough of horseradish hummus!
this just reminded me that i haven’t made hummus in WAY too long. it’s happening soon! maybe i’ll remember to grab a sweet potato & try this recipe!
I have never had sweet potato hummus but this looks delicious!
This looks sooo delicious. I love hummus and I love sweet potatoes so why have I not tried this?!
i don’t know!!! but you better get on it! so good.
This looks delicious as always, Lindsay! I agree, this looks like it would be delicious even without the tahini, but I am surprised to hear you don’t like it. I LOVE Tahini esp in salad dressings.
My favorite hummus is the Supremely Spicy hummus by Sabra, although they use added oil in theirs, so it would be great to have a recipe to make it without oil!
yeah i just can’t get myself to like the flavor! i don’t like making mine with oil either…but i’m sure you could make a pretty close replica without it!
Whoa…never thought about mixing sweet potatoes in my hummus! Definitely going to have to try this soon 🙂
hope you liked it!