Chocolate Hummus Recipe
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Recipe Overview
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 0 minutes
Ingredients Needed
- 400g/14oz tin chickpeas (250g/8.8oz drained weight chickpeas)
- 1/2 cup/170g/6ozs maple syrup (can also use golden syrup or honey)
- 1/2 cup 125g/4ozs peanut butter or Nutella
- 4 tablespoons/40g/ cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste
- 1/4 teaspoon fine salt
- 1 tablespoon dark chocolate chips
Step-By-Step Instructions
Step 1 - Place the drained chickpeas, maple syrup, nut butter, cocoa powder, vanilla bean paste and salt in a food processor and puree until smooth.
Thermomix directions: Place the drained chickpeas, maple syrup, nut butter, cocoa powder, vanilla bean paste and salt in TM bowl and set to Speed #9, 20 seconds scraping down halfway if needed.
Step 2 - Scrape into bowl and sprinkle chocolate chips on top. I drizzled a little of the maple syrup on top too. Serve with fresh strawberries, sliced banana, cookies, Pocky and pretzels.
Storage: this dip keeps in the fridge in an airtight container for 2-3 days.
Personal Note
I served this to the Elliotts at a picnic this past weekend and they absolutely loved it. Nobody thought that it was weird at all and the kids devoured it. My in-laws are very unique people and really unlike any other people that I've ever known because they are extremely alternative and really quite wild at times.
And while Mr NQN is the most mainstream of his family there are occasional quirks that will surface. Last month we were on holiday in Taormina in Sicily and I had decided that that was where we would splash out on a nice hotel. I mean a modestly nice hotel because the Four Seasons Taormina from The White Lotus is almost $4,000AUD a night and is completely sold out so we weren't even entertaining that level of hotel.
Still I absolutely loved our hotel and its incredible, sweeping views of Taormina. We were only there one night and the next morning we had a long drive to Palermo so we made sure to wake up for breakfast. I usually skip breakfast during everyday life but I love hotel breakfasts and a hotel breakfast buffet. Mr NQN went off to get some fruit while I looked for savoury breakfast options. I made myself some scacce bread, sun dried tomatoes, cheese and mortadella. He sat down with his fruit.
Instead of helping himself to a fruit salad he had one plate piled with whole fruit. "That is the breakfast of a maniac," I said to him surveying the whole banana, apple, peach and pears. "Didn't you see the fruit salad?" I asked him. It was a really nice fruit salad full of fresh, good quality fruit like fresh pineapple, berries and peaches. "I didn't see it," he shrugged chomping down on a pear.
Mr NQN didn't grow up going to restaurants or staying in hotels so I whispered to him that the whole fruit is the fruit that you take or pinch when you're on your way out of the buffet and just want a snack during the day. But because Mr NQN is a very law abiding citizen it took him a while to get into taking the whole fruit on the way out. But having seen the beauty of this idea he has now become the person that takes a piece of fruit with him at every hotel breakfast buffet!
So tell me Dear Reader, do you ever take a piece of fruit with you at the hotel buffet for a later snack? What is your hotel buffet selection like, is it sweet or savoury? And have you ever heard of chocolate hummus?