Update Your Dipping Options For National Hummus Day With These Recipes

It seems like everyone has gone pickle-mad lately and with good reason – pickles are great! This dilly dynamo has both chopped pickles and pickle juice. Would it be crazy on a burger? Only one way to find out!

If you have an herb garden ready to be picked, this green hummus recipe is perfect. Spinach, parsley and whatever herbs you have on hands make a healthy dip when blended with chickpeas. Serve with colorful veggies like red peppers and carrots to eat a rainbow of good things.

This creamy hummus has a sweet heat that you can adjust to your preferred spiciness level. You can also remove the skins from the chickpeas if you’d prefer a creamier hummus. Dipping toasted naan chunks into this hummus would be glorious, as would cooling veggies like cucumber and celery.

Chopped olives are a wicked hummus topping but this dip has green olives blended right in too. The end result is creamy, tangy and salty – best served with seedy crackers. 

You can dip tortilla chips, pita and veggies into this spicy, smokey hummus. Use canned whole chipotle peppers in adobo sauce with chickpeas and adjust as needed by reducing or adding the amount of chiles.

Instead of chickpeas, the base of this hummus is edamame beans, and avocado. You can still add tahini, remove it or substitute a nut butter instead. The avocado makes the dip super silky and you can also spice it up with a little jalapeno pepper, so it’s almost like a guacamole. 

Save this recipe for fall, when pumpkin puree appears in everything. Instead of a pumpkin spice vibe, this hummus has more of an earthiness to it that goes well with veggies and breads. 

Classic hummus recipes usually have a clove or two of garlic but this recipe goes all in on the garlic, roasting a whole head to nutty perfection. If you want even more for a topping, throw another head in the oven. 

Roasted carrots, ginger and smoked paprika are a sweet, kicky way to hummus. Serving this hummus on a whole wheat cracker with a slice of blood orange is the recipe blogger's suggestion and that sound like a truly unique canape. 

You don’t have to choose between pizza and hummus with this tomato and basil version. This dip would be delicious on freshly baked pizza dough or slices of pepperoni.