It is not the first time that we prepare hummus in Las Recetas de Cocina, a spreadable chickpea paste originally from Arabic cuisine. This time, however, we "complicated" its preparation a bit more by incorporating two new ingredients, sweet potatoes and previously roasted garlic.
Roast the garlic It is the only step that will make preparing this hummus take longer than preparing the traditional one. But you can do it in advance and keep it shredded in an airtight container in the fridge. Once you taste it, you can modify the flavors by playing with the amounts of the ingredients to make it to your liking.
Garlic Sweet Potato Hummus
Today's Roasted Garlic Sweet Potato Hummus is an ideal spread to snack on before lunch this spring.
Author Maria
Recipe type: Entrance
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Ingredients
For the roasted garlic:
- 1 head of garlic
- Olive oil
- Salt and pepper
For the hummus
- 1 tablespoon garlic paste roasted
- ¾ cup mashed sweet potato
- 400 g. drained cooked chickpeas
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 3 tablespoons tahini
- Juice of 1 medium lemon
- 1 ½ teaspoons maple syrup
- ½ teaspoon salt
- Pinch of pepper
- ½ teaspoon ground cumin
- A pinch of ground cinnamon
- Pipes to decorate
Preparation
- Preheat the oven to 200ºC.
- We cut the upper end of the garlic head and remove those outer layers and skin that are loose.
- We place the head on aluminum foil, drizzle with olive oil and season. We wrap with the paper and we bake the head garlic for about 50 minutes or until tender and the cloves are golden brown. We take out and let it temper until we can manipulate it.
- Remove the skin from the garlic cloves and crush with a fork to form a paste with the meat.
- In a bowl we mix the garlic paste, the sweet potato puree, the chickpeas, the olive oil, the tahini paste, the lemon juice, the maple syrup and all the seasonings. Blend until smooth.
- We test and correct the salt point.
- We put the hummus in the container in which we are going to serve it and decorate with a little extra virgin olive oil and some pipes.