This Healthy Hummus recipe, is light, creamy and delicious! Great for party dips or sandwich filling. Smooth, fresh and easy to make, give it a try and ditch the store bought hummus!
Why This Healthy Hummus Is So Good
- A lighter and fresher version of store bought hummus.
- Easy to make and a party favorite.
- Great as a dip or sandwich filling.
- Packs a super satisfying lemon and garlic punch!
Ingredients For This Healthy Recipe
- Chickpeas
- Lemon juice
- Kosher salt
- Garlic
- Plain yogurt
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Smoked parpika
- Fresh parsley
How To Make This Healthy Hummus Recipe – Step by Step
- In a food processor, combine the chickpeas, lemon juice, salt, garlic and yogurt. Process for 1 minute, then open the food processer and scrape the sides. Process for another minute.
- While the processor is running, pour in the olive oil. Taste and check for smooth consistency. If the hummus is too thick, add 1 tablespoon of water.
- Just before serving, sprinkle with smoked paprika, fresh parsley and drizzle with additional olive oil.
A Healthier Hummus
In addition to leaving out a specific ingredient (watch the video below to find out), I’ve also lightened up the recipe by adding in plain yogurt to create a smooth, creamy hummus.
Serving Ideas For Hummus
What to use this healthy hummus for? What to dip in it? So many options, it’s pretty darn versatile! Here are some ideas:
- Kale Tabouli
- Spread hummus on your favorite bread.
- Use instead of mayonnaise or mustard.
- Dip pita chips in hummus.
- Make hummus mashed potatoes.
- Make deviled eggs.
- Pair hummus and vegetables.
- Make a Mediterranean-inspired dinner with fish topped with hummus
- Serve with falafels
How Long Does This Hummus Last?
Homemade healthy hummus will generally keep for about 4 to 7 days, assuming it has been continuously refrigerated. To further extend the shelf life of hummus, freeze it: to freeze hummus, place inside covered airtight containers or heavy-duty freezer bags.
Top Tips For This Healthy Hummus Recipe
- Store-bought lemon juice always tastes stale and sad, and it will make your hummus taste stale and sad. Buy lemons and your humus will taste fresh and delicious.
- This is another trick from Solomonov—if you mince the garlic in the food processor or blender with the lemon juice and let that mixture rest for a few minutes, the garlic will lose its harsh, raw bite and mellow out.
- Sprinkle on top some Sesame seeds or seeded spice blend, such as dukkah.
- Instead, dusting fiery spices like cayenne and chili pepper powder onto your hummus will lend it a whole lot of bite and health benefits. Capsaicin, the compound that gives piquant peppers their sought-after heat, has been linked to everything from preventing cardiovascular disease to decreasing appetite and boosting metabolism.
Healthy Hummus Recipe Video
Check Out These Other Delicious Homemade Dips
- Healthy Garlicky Spinach Artichoke Dip with Baked Tofu Fries
- Warm Spinach Mascarpone Dip
- Pork Tenderloin with Warm Grilled Tomato Salsa
- Club Med Salsa Mexicana and Guacamole
Have you tried this Healthy Hummus recipe? Feel free to leave a star rating and I’d love to hear from you in the comments below!
Healthy Hummus recipe
This Healthy Hummus recipe, is light, creamy and delicious! Great for party dips or sandwich filling. Smooth, fresh and easy to make, give it a try and ditch the store bought hummus!
Ingredients
- 15 ounce can chickpeas garbanzo, rinsed and drained well
- juice from 1 lemon about 1/4 cup
- 3/4 teaspoon kosher or sea salt
- 1-2 cloves garlic very finely minced
- 1/4 cup plain yogurt
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil plus more for drizzling
- 1/4 teaspoon smoked paprika
- minced fresh parsley
Instructions
- In a food processor, combine the chickpeas, lemon juice, salt, garlic and yogurt. Process for 1 minute, then open the food processer and scrape the sides. Process for another minute.
- While the processor is running, pour in the olive oil. Taste and check for smooth consistency.
- If the hummus is too thick, add 1 tablespoon of water.
- Just before serving, sprinkle with smoked paprika, fresh parsley and drizzle with additional olive oil.
Notes
Store-bought lemon juice always tastes stale and sad, and it will make your hummus taste stale and sad. Buy lemons and your humus will taste fresh and delicious.
This is another trick from Solomonov—if you mince the garlic in the food processor or blender with the lemon juice and let that mixture rest for a few minutes, the garlic will lose its harsh, raw bite and mellow out.
Sprinkle on top some Sesame seeds or seeded spice blend, such as dukkah.
Instead, dusting fiery spices like cayenne and chili pepper powder onto your hummus will lend it a whole lot of bite and health benefits. Capsaicin, the compound that gives piquant peppers their sought-after heat, has been linked to everything from preventing cardiovascular disease to decreasing appetite and boosting metabolism.
Nutrition
Calories: 133kcalCarbohydrates: 11gProtein: 4gFat: 9gSaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 1mgSodium: 493mgPotassium: 125mgFiber: 3gSugar: 1gVitamin A: 167IUVitamin C: 4mgCalcium: 39mgIron: 1mg
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This is a wonderful lower calorie hummus. I’ve decreased the yogurt and we added 2 tsp pesto and 2 tsp of parm 352 in calories per whole recipe.
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Good , but what happened to the delicious and healthy sesame paste. with out tahini can you really call this recipe hummus? or just chickpea dip?
Just made this recipe; perfect!!
I made mine vegan. it was sooooooooo good!!!!!!!!1
So whizzed this up for my hummus mad hubby with the addition of some red jalepeno, verdict delish ! Don’t miss the tahini at all but maybe that’s coz its spicy, anyhow thanks for a fantastic healthy hummus much better than shop bought, ps; your recipe has made its way to sunny Scotland
I like your recipes and articles. But, this one is found a bit ridiculous. All hummus is healthy. You didn’t just improve on thousands of years. Sorry.
I can’t wait to try your hummus! I plan on making it today, and I will get back to you and let you know the results. Thanks so much for the great receipe and pictures.
Thanks for the recipe. I made it today as instructed by yourself and it is the best Hummus I have tasted.
what’s the nutritional info?
and is it alright to eat one bowl of hummus with pita for lunch instead of two tablespoons with pita as a snack?
Hi Payal- I don’t provide nutritional info, but you can copy/paste the ingredients into this site: http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/account/index.php
Will the lemon juice make the yogurt curdle? Especially if you try to keep it 5-7 days… Thank you in advance for your advise.
No it does not curdle – there are other ingredients in the hummus to make it all blend really well.
Ooh, and drizzled with a little sriracha for the spicy crowd! Great!
A quarter cup of Lemon Juice is way too much… my hummus is sour now. 🙁
Lovely pictures and lovely hobbies you have! 🙂 I’m a hummus lover. The recipe looks fabulous. Shall definitely try it tomorrow.
Thanks for the post!
Stunning photos, and wonderful story. It is really funny, I make hummus quite often, but have never put tahini in mine as I have never kept any around. I was thinking to get some to add, but now I think I will continue to leave it out. I do wish I could find sumac root to add. When traveling in Israel, the hummus was out of this world, and that was one of the ingredients they used.
great recipe! I’d put a tad bit less yogurt next time just to see if I get a thicker texture.
Jaden! Wow, this looks so delicious. I can’t wait to try this recipe out. Your pictures are out of this world… these look to die for.
Sounds delicious, and looks delicious too!
Hummus! Hummus! Hummus! A favorite of ours, must I say. This recipe looks awesome. I may have to try it one day. Thank you!
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I love hummus, but I think I would reeeealy miss the rich sesame taste brought by Tahini… Maybe I can make up for it by substituing sesame oil to the olive oil you used?
Oh by all means us Tahini! Just add a tablespoon first, taste and you can add more.
Sesame oil would not be a good substitution.
I can’t wait to try this! I LOVE hummus but I’ve always been a little too intimidated to make it on my own. Not to mention that I never seem to find Tahine paste when I need it. This recipe looks easy and delicious though!
yo. Its looking fine & Its healthy so I like healthy food very much because as a sport person i have to manage my food.
Yum… this looks great. Thanks for the great idea and post. I can’t wait to try it!
ooo that looks great! I have friends that live down that way so I’ll have to let them know about that restaurant! Since I’m about 12 hours away, I’ll have to make your version instead!
Looks delicious!! I love making humus. Can’t wait to try this recipe.
That’s so cool that you spin wool. That’s such an awesome and interesting hobby. Plus this hummus recipe looks great. Hummus is so versatile you can eat it with almost anything!
This hummus recipe looks simply to die for! And I can’t WAIT to snag a copy of your cookbook!! xoxo
I have been wanting to take up knitting and crocheting for ages. I knit a little bit in college, but only very plain scarves and the like, I’d love to learn how to make some of the more complex patterns and designs. If you had any interest in posting about what you’ve made I’d love the read about it/see them!
And this hummus sounds delicious! My dad is from Greece, so hummus was always a staple at our house. Ours was incredibly garlic-y, though, which I liked, but I could definitely see it being too much for some people haha 🙂
You know what goes well with your hummus…homemade kale-sesame crackers! I make mine with furukake, pinch of cayenne, and my garlic seasoning! am totally a happy camper with those crackers slathered with hummus!
Do you have a guess as to how long this keeps?
It should keep for up to a week in refrigerator.
You just made me *really* miss my old handout of a yarn shop in Toronto (The Purple Purl, if ever you’re in town). Since moving to Orlando I haven’t found anything like it, nor have I found many kindred knitting friends. I’m going to get on Ravelry tonight and see if I can’t find a new knitting group. Thanks for the nudge! (This hummus looks and sounds amazing, btw).
I like to add sumac… I also use half tahini half yogurt – tahini is mega good for you!
There’s something about hummus that’s so inviting, comforting and exotic — bursting with flavors if made right 🙂
This sounds like an answer for my granddaughter who is allergic to sesame and sesame oil
I love hummus, and yours looks fabulous! I’ve never tried adding yogurt, but that can only amp up the creaminess!
We love hummus at our house. This recipe is now on my must try list. What gorgeous photography!
Wow! This is gorgeous!
I love this recipe! Tahini is yummy but can’t wait to try the substitution of yogurt.
Hi..
Was looking for nice hummus recipe … I think urs is the best ..will try tomorrow and will link ur recipe in my blog if u dont mind .. great blog dear ..keep it up..
Yogurt! I’ve never thought to add that, but what a great idea!
I love hummus but haven’t had a chance to make it at home yet, this looks so delicious!