If you love hummus (and who doesn’t?!), you’ll love this creamy cauliflower hummus! It’s easy and full of flavour.
Hummus
We are HUGE hummus fans at my house. The kids adore it and we have it at least once a week. Hummus is easy to make, healthy and delicious.
But I thought I’d get creative. If pureed chickpeas make hummus, what about a vegetable?
What about cauliflower?
Cauliflower Hummus
Cauliflower blends up nice and creamy and has a pleasant, mild flavour.
I’ve added the traditional hummus ingredients of tahini, garlic and lemon juice to liven it up and in minutes I had a special new take on my family’s favourite dip.
One of the best things about making hummus is being able to tweak the ingredients to taste, so go ahead and adjust this recipe until you get the lemon and garlic balance just how you like it.
If you’re looking for other dips, try my beet hummus, or hot spinach artichoke dip or french onion dip.
Can we discuss the spelling of hummus now? Houmus/humus/hummus. It drives me mad and I’m never quite sure which is right. How do you spell it?
Whatever way it’s spelled, it’s awesome. I love it on buddha bowls, carrot hummus sandwiches, and for veggies and dip of course! It’s also perfect on falafel waffles.
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- ½ a head of cauliflower, florets
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon tahini
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- ½ clove of garlic, minced
- ⅛ teaspoon sea salt
- Standard Method: Steam or boil the cauliflower florets for a few minutes until soft. Drain and rinse under cold water to cool. Drain again. Transfer to a food processor, along with the other ingredients and puree until smooth.
- Zyliss Easy Pull methood: Steam or boil the cauliflower florets for a few minutes until soft. Drain and rinse under cold water to cool. Drain again. Transfer to the Easy Pull and pull until smooth - about 30 pulls. Add the remaining ingredients and pull approx 20 times to blend.
- Lovely served with vegetables, pitta or flatbreads.
Thanks for checking out my recipe! I love hearing from my readers. You all allow me to do what I love and write this UK food blog, sharing vegetarian and vegan recipes, vegetable cake recipes and also easy vegan desserts.
Kate x
Jac -Tinned Tomatoes (@tinnedtoms) says
I love flavoured hummus Kate, in fact all hummus. This one is a to-try. Thanks for submitting this to Meat Free Mondays, I was delighted to publish it as a featured recipe. It’s great inspiration for everyone. Stumbled, Pinned and Tweeted 🙂
Anne's Kitchen says
Oooh more cauliflower love to explore!! I love your mini food processor, such a great idea – when I moved a few years ago I discarded mine because of the size but often crave having one again, yours is ideal!
kerrycooks says
There’s really no limit to what you can do with cauliflower – yum!
laura_howtocook says
Such a good idea to use cauliflower in hummus, I bet it tastes lovely and I agree there are to many ways to spell hummus. I wonder why?!
Kate Hackworthy says
Thanks Laura. It is lovely. Let’s campaign to get one spelling 😉
The Free From Fairy says
Inspired!!! I can’t eat chickpeas at the moment as they don’t agree with my IBS tummy so this is a fab idea! Love it!
Jen @ Jen's Food says
Really like the idea of using cauliflower instead of chickpeas to make hummus. Incidentally anyone spelling it as humus is risking confusion with the organic topsoil layer 😛
Kate Hackworthy says
Ha ha Jen! I’ll be sure to use the extra m!
superfitbabe says
Wow, how clever! I HAVE to try making this 😀 looks just like normal hummus!
nadiashealthykitchen says
Interesting! Love hummus and eat is almost every day! Need to try cauliflower hummus next 😀
Kate Hackworthy says
I hope you like it, Nadia!
Keep Calm and Fanny On says
Neat idea!