hummus sandwich

5 from 1 vote

hummus for a sandwich for lunch

Prep Time5

Cook Time10

Total Time15

Course: Breakfast, Packed Lunch, Picnic, Side Dish, Snack

Cuisine: Greek

Keyword: budget meals, cheap family recipes, vegan, vegetarian

Dietary Requirements: Dairy Free, Freezes Well, Gluten Free, Vegan, Vegetarian

Servings: sandwiches

Calories: 218.15kcal

Cost: 4p per sandwich

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
72 slices home made bread to make sandwiches

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.
140 g chickpeas, 15 ml vinegar, ½ lemon, ½ tsp garlic powder, 1 tsp salt and pepper, ½ tsp black pepper, ¼ tsp chilli powder, 110 ml oil
Season with salt and pepper, taste and adjust if necessary
Make a sandwich each using your homemade bread
72 slices home made bread
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

What changes can I make

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