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Sweet Potato Hummus Recipe
A simple healthy fall snack food.
Having healthy snacks available in the fridge makes eating healthy so much easier.
By preparing healthy snacks ahead of time and having them ready to go, your options in the fridge become easily accessible.
I love to turn vegetables into snack food and sweet potato hummus is my healthy snack food of the fall season.
Sweet Potatoes Versus Yams
Sweet potatoes are the root vegetables native to the Americas that are also known as yams in the United States.
The word yam came over from Africa. A true yam is a different root vegetable similar in appearance but in an unrelated biological family with a different texture and flavor.
The USDA didn’t help the misnomer, labeling orange-fleshed sweet potatoes yams, and the white-fleshed sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes.
In addition to orange and white flesh, sweet potatoes can be shades of red and purple. Any color sweet potato will work in the recipe.
What is Hummus?
Hummus in Arabic means chickpeas. The word hummus in the United States has come to refer to a dip or spread made with chickpeas, tahini, garlic, lemon, and olive oil.
