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Kid-friendly peanut houmous

Your kids will love making their own peanut houmous to share with friends. It makes a delicious dip with raw veg or pittas.

Your kids will love making their own peanut houmous to share with friends. It makes a delicious dip with raw veg or pittas.

Cooking Time

Cook: 20 Mins

Cooking Time

Serves: 4

Cooking Time

Price: 62p per serving

Nutritional Information

Each 213g serving contains

Energy
1201kj
287kcal
14%
Fat
10g
Med
15%
Saturates
1.9g
Low
9%
Sugars
7.4g
Low
8%
Salt
0.72g
Med
12%
1
of your 5-a-day
of your reference intake.
Typical energy values per 100g:
564kj/135kcal

Ingredients

1 garlic clove

400g can chickpeas, drained

2 tbsp lemon juice

2 tbsp peanut butter

1 tbsp olive oil

1 red pepper

1 yellow pepper

1 carrot

2 wholemeal pittas

2 level tsp sesame seeds

1/2 level tsp paprika

Method

1
Cut the end off the garlic, then peel and finely chop the clove. Put in a bowl with the chickpeas, lemon juice, peanut butter and oil.
2
With adult supervision, use a handheld blender to blitz the ingredients together.
3
Halve and de-seed the peppers and cut into thick slices. Cut the top and bottom off the carrot, then peel and slice into thick sticks.
4
Put the pitta breads on a baking sheet and sprinkle a little water over them.
5
Ask an adult to toast the pittas under the grill until puffed up, Slice when cool.
6
Put the houmous in a bowl and sprinkle on the sesame seeds and paprika. Serve with the peppers, carrots and pittas.
7
The houmous will keep in the fridge covered for 2-3 days.