Lunch

Joanie's Green Paste (Spinach Hummus) is for Lunch.

Joanie's Green Paste (Spinach Hummus) takes several minutes to prepare.

Joanie's Green Paste (Spinach Hummus) takes several minutes to cook.

Joanie's Green Paste (Spinach Hummus) makes 8 servings.

The ingredients for Joanie's Green Paste (Spinach Hummus) are:

2 cans garbanzo beans, rinsed and drained
1 can black beans, rinsed and drained
1-1/2 cups PACKED fresh spinach
4 garlic cloves, minced
1/4 cup plus 1 tbsp tahini sauce
1/4 cup water or more
Juice of one lemon
2 tsp kosher salt
Pepper

Here is how you make Joanie's Green Paste (Spinach Hummus):

Spread garbanzo beans out on a cookie sheet and bake in a 375 degree oven for 25 minutes, let cool at least a half hour.Clean spinach and dry Place all ingredients in a food processor and process, process, process for, like, ever, until it's smooth (you may have to scrape the sides a bit.) This may take up to ten minutes of processing to get it really smooth.That's it! A few tips:If you've roasted the garbanzos a bit too much (I did this once) you may need to add a little more water. You could also possibly use other greens, but I've never tried it. I did try using broccoli once, and it tasted OK, but it oxidized so the paste was a seriously unappetizing greeny-brown.My way of cleaning the spinach is to run a sinkful of water and throw all the leaves in there and swoosh 'em around, then let them be as I get all the other stuff together. That way, the dirt/sand has time to fall to the bottom of the sink. Then I just scoop out the leaves into a salad spinner.And when packing the spinach, I keep jamming it into the measuring cup and jamming it and jamming it in til I can't get any more in -- when you take your thumb off it it should spring out everywhere; then you know you have enough!This makes 4 cups; each serving is a half-cup. (I use one of those old springy ice cream scoops which is exactly one-half cup per flat scoop; so two scoops is an easy-to-measure serving!)This is really good on a piece of good bread, toasted, maybe with a bit of sriracha on it.Number of Servings: 8Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user MOSTLYH2O.

The nutritional information for Joanie's Green Paste (Spinach Hummus) is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 8
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 155.5

• Total Fat: 1.9 g
• Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
• Sodium: 560.1 mg
• Total Carbs: 26.0 g
• Dietary Fiber: 7.4 g
• Protein: 12.0 g