🧂 460mg sodium — comfortably under our 500mg cap
Roasted Red Pepper Hummus Bowl
Smoky roasted red pepper hummus under za'atar-crusted cauliflower and lemony quinoa — a bowl with a fire-roasted backbone.
💪 Where's the protein? Right here — 20g
- Chickpeas (11g)
- Quinoa (6g)
- Tahini (3g)
🍃 Sugar-Free Option
No added sweeteners in this recipe — it's sugar-free as written. Any sugars in the nutrition panel come from whole vegetables, grains, and fruit only.
Ingredients (all organic)
- ✓Chickpeas, 1.5 cups
- ✓Red bell peppers, 2
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- ✓Lemon, 1
- ✓Garlic, 2 cloves
- ✓Smoked paprika, 1 tsp
- ✓Cauliflower, 1 small head, in florets
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- ✓Quinoa, 3/4 cup cooked
- ✓Olive oil, 1.5 tbsp
- ✓Parsley + pine nuts, to finish
Dotted ⓘ ingredients have photos and store locations in the field guide.
How to Prep
- 1Roast the peppers at 450°F until blackened; steam in a covered bowl, then peel.
- 2Toss cauliflower with oil and za'atar; roast at 425°F for 25 minutes until deeply browned.
- 3Blend chickpeas, roasted peppers, tahini, lemon, garlic, and paprika into a smoky coral-colored hummus.
- 4Fluff the quinoa with lemon zest.
- 5Hummus on the bottom, quinoa and cauliflower on top, parsley and pine nuts to finish.
🔪 Starting from raw? The basics (3)
Chickpeas: canned or from dry
Canned works everywhere — one 15-oz can, drained and rinsed, is about 1½ cups. From dry: soak overnight, then simmer 60–90 minutes until creamy inside (1 cup dry makes about 3 cups).
Roasting peppers
Roast whole peppers at 450°F (or over a flame) until blackened all over, about 25 minutes. Steam in a covered bowl 10 minutes, then peel, stem, and seed.
Cooking quinoa
Rinse first (it rinses off the bitter coating). 1 cup dry + 1¾ cups water: boil, cover, simmer low 15 minutes, rest 5, fluff. Makes about 3 cups.
📍 Buy the ingredients — Chicagoland
Every ingredient above is stocked organic at these local spots:
- Whole Foods Market — Lakeview
- Fresh Thyme Market — Bucktown
- Pete's Fresh Market — Bridgeport
- Mariano's — Throughout Chicagoland
- Dill Pickle Food Co-op — Logan Square
- Sugar Beet Food Co-op — Oak Park
More metro areas coming as Rootful grows. Or get it delivered — coming soon →
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