Week 1 Day 7: Beetroot hummus with toasted pitta bread

Day 7... (pictures coming soon)

This is definitely one of my simpler recipes. I would have loved to have brought you a more complex ‘from scratch’ hummus recipe, but sadly the raw ingredients like tahini paste just brought the cost too high considering I didn’t have the need for the rest of the jar – nor the desire to eat a kilo of hummus to myself! So this is basically a nice way of adding a bit of interest to ordinary hummus, whilst also making it go a little further… and (have you guessed?) a great way to eat up the last of the beetroot!

 Ingredients:

1-2 cooked beetroot

1/3 of  a pot of hummus

½ a cucumber

2 wholemeal pitta breads

 Method:

·         Blitz the beetroot with a stick blender until smooth and stir through the hummus until combined.

·         Chop the cucumber into dipping-sized batons.

·         Toast the pitta bread (I like mine really crisp so they almost turn into breadsticks.)

·         Once toasted and still warm, use scissors to chop the pittas into dipping soldiers.

·         Serve the hummus with the cucumber and pitta sticks to dip.