Monday Night Dinner

Having had what I consider not the healthiest of weekend ;-), this Monday night was dedicated to a health kick and hanging out with my sister who just returned from jet setting around the world...(I'm still green with envy).

So I wanted to try and whip up something filling, pretty and delicious without spending a fortune. Enter my recipe for Pea and mint hummus with home made beetroot and carrot crisps topped off with chill seeds.

You would need the following:

1. 2 Cloves of garlic,
2. 1 red onions,
3. 1 Lemon, 
4. 1 carton of chick peas,
5. Peas of what ever kind you like and as much as you want.
6. A big bunch of Fresh Mint, 
7. Olive Oil, 
8. Coconut Oil, 
9. Boiling water, 
10. Beetroot, 
11. Carrots, 
12. Salt, 
13. Pepper, 
14. Chill Seeds. 

Start by whacking the kettle on and the fan oven to 180c, just so all is ready to go.

Blitz up your garlic, onion, olive oil, lemon, a little mint and Coconut Oil. (This is great for hair, skin and nails, I add it to everything, its the dream and so tasty). It should all start to bind together well.

Next place your peas and Chic peas into a saucepan and bring to the boil for about 5 minutes, with a bit more mint. By adding the mint you add to the flavour.

Once the peas are cooked drain and leave to cool. Then simply add them to the onion and garlic mix and wiz it all up together. At this point to need to season well with salt and pepper and add more olive oil. 

Blitz again and wallah your Hummus is made, place this to once side to stand while you make your crisps.

Next top and tail you beetroot and carrots, no nasty's please!!!!Then if your old school like me find the flat edge of you grater and simply shave off very fine lengths of your vegetables. This can be done with any type of veg you like but I didn't have anything else in my fridge.

Lay the veg out flat on a baking sheet and sprinkle with grated chill, salt and pepper, you could add oil but I didn't.

Bake at 180c for about 7 minutes, then get your prongs and flip the strips over so both sides cook evenly, but this time 5 minutes should be ok!

Now it's just time to arrange! I'm a total ponce/food snob hee so I collected some flowers and squashed my humus into a glass so I could turn it out into a small tower. I then topped this with chill seeds and arranged my bakes crisps around the tower.

For me this was totally mouth watering and guilt free.

Bon Appétit...

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