Houmous Sandwich

What you need to make hummus sandwiches

• 140 g chickpeas dry weight chickpeas cooked as per packet instructions, or one tin, drained
• 110 ml oil
• 15 ml vinegar
• ½ lemon, juice only, retain the carcass
• ½ tsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp salt and pepper
• ½ tsp black pepper
• ¼ tsp chilli powder

How to make sandwiches with hummus

• • Keep the lemon carcass to use when making lemon cordial
  • Place all the ingredients except oil in a food processor, then gradually add the oil whilst pulsing the food processor until you have achieved a loose runny consistency a bit like natural yoghurt or double cream.
  • Season with salt and pepper, taste and adjust if necessary
  • Make a sandwich each using your homemade bread  by spreading the appropriate amount on 1 slice of bread (each meal plan uses a different weight of hummus for a sandwich) and popping the other slice on top

If you are following meal plan 1, make once in the month- serve 10g per person per meal, can be frozen. Served 9 times during the month

If you are following meal plan 2, make once in the month – serve 20g per person per meal, can be frozen. Served 4 times during the month

The sandwiches once made up will freeze very well making preparation a one off process

What changes can I make

If you are not following either of the monthly meal planners, you can make changes

• I like to soak a whole 500g pack of chickpeas and cook them in one go. Then I package them into one tin sized portions (250g) and freeze. So useful for so many things.
• As I use a lot of them, I’ve taken to getting 5kg of dried chickpeas at a time. Five kilograms will make the equivalent of 40 tins! It takes 125g of dried chickpeas to make the same weight as a drained tin. At the time of writing (11th August 2024) 5kg of chickpeas can be bought from Amazon for £14.08. This means that each tin would cost 35p each, plus a few pence to cook them.
• See the posts for red pepper hummus, tomato hummus and onion hummus
• Hummus typically has tahini in it, but we don’t have any available on this meal plan. You could add a couple of tablespoons of tahini if you have it, or peanut butter has a very similar flavour profile and will substitute quite nicely here
• If you have any, olive oil is lovely in hummus
• Add 100g of any cooked vegetable and whizz it in
• Maybe try some of the 30+ suggested flavour combinations in this roundup post
• Add grated carrot, cucumber slices or lettuce to your sandwich
• Add some curry spices, whatever you have. I particularly like tandoori spice
• whizz in a cooked beetroot, roasted red pepper from a jar, sun dried tomatoes or a dollop of caramelised onions

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