6 Healthy Gathering Appetizers

Homemade Hummus

Homemade Cheese Ball

Jalapeno Black Bean Dip 

 

Guacamole and stretching it farther

Healthy Spicy Chicken Dip


                               

Salsa


Here are some fun healthy food options for your gathering this weekend or anytime. We love our family gatherings. Have a great weekend.

Homemade Hummus

My daughter who just got back from her LDS Mission, acquired a love for hummus. So she was sweet to make us some homemade hummus for us. It is a wonderful treat when my children make, and like healthy food too. It was really good. I had hummus before, and not really liked it. It was a pleasant surprise to enjoy this. It was pleasing to see my children enjoy it as well. It made a nice addition to our wraps the other night. I know there are a lot of variations to hummus so we will have to try those next time. It is a quick easy thing to make. I love that it is healthy too. :) You could use it for a lot of different things on crackers, pita chips, tortillas, bread, vegetables etc.. Enjoy!

Ingredients:
1/3 C Tahini
1/2 C water
1/4 C lemon or lime juice
2-3 cloves of garlic
1 tsp sea salt w/ iodine
2 T dried or fresh Italian parsley
pinch of paprika
1/2 tsp cumin *Optional
2 C cooked or canned chick peas rinsed and drained
Directions:

1. Pour all the ingredients into the blender. Blend until smooth. Makes about 3 cups.

We will be making this again soon. :)

Tomato Relish on Wraps with Hummus and Chicken

These colors are so fun to look at it is kind of mesmerizing. It is fun to be able to grow all these wonderful vegetables. It was nice to eat them raw, so it the colors didn't fade much. Eating vegetables can be fun when you find the right combination. This relish would taste great with chips or just eating plain by the spoonfuls. Yum
I chopped them all up on the cutting board.

Then tossed them all together.
Then added lime juice, salt and pepper
Then we put it on wraps that had a little bit of hummus spread on them. Put on a few pieces of chicken and dinner is ready.

Ingredients: feeds 6 or more
2 green peppers chopped small pieces
1/2 jalapeno deseeded and diced in small pieces
6-7 Roma tomatoes diced in small pieces
1/3 C diced red onion
3 to 4 ripe avocados copped in small pieces
2 1/2 T fresh lime juice
2 tsp sea salt with iodine
1 tsp fresh ground pepper
1/8 to 1/4 tsp chili powder* optional
hummus * optional
6 whole grain wraps or tortillas (I made homemade)
1 to 1 1/2 C cooked diced chicken * optional (I put some taco seasonings on it.)

Directions:

1. Cut up all the vegetables. Toss into a bowl. Toss in the lime juice, salt pepper and chili powder.

2. Spread a thin layer of hummus on the wrap. Spoon on some of the tomato relish and put on a few pieces of chicken.

Enjoy! It was a very tasty meal. :)