Easy Marinated Vegetables

Ingredients:

• Selection of your favorite raw veggies (broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, sugar snap peas, peppers, asparagus, cherry or grape tomatoes, celery, zucchini, cucumbers, etc.)*

• pitted Kalamata olives (as many as you’d like)

• jalapeno stuffed olives (optional)

• 1 or 2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped

• Newman’s Own oil & vinegar dressing (or your own favorite)

 

Directions:

 

• Wash vegetables. (Rinse them, soak them for about 5 minutes in a bath of vinegar and water, then rinse again.)

• Cut into sizes appropriate for finger food.

• Arrange in a marinating dish or layer in a large glass jar.

• Drain olives and arrange on top of the vegetables.

• Chop garlic and sprinkle on top.

• Drizzle vegetables with salad dressing (about 1/3 to 1/2 of an average sized bottle) and, if you like, some of the juice from the olives.

• Place in refrigerator and allow to marinate for 3 to 24 hours, turning the container at least 3 times (more is better) over that period to allow the dressing to coat all the vegetables.

• Serve alone or with your favorite dip.

 

* Add celery, cucumbers and zucchini during the last hour of marinating so they don’t get mushy.

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Chickpea Hummus

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Ingredients:

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• 1 can (14 oz/398ml) chickpeas, drained

(or an equal amount of cooked chickpeas)

• 2 T olive oil

• 1-2 T water

• 2 T lemon juice

• 2 – 3 cloves garlic (or more!)

• 3 – 4 T tahini

• ½ tsp salt

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Directions:

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Place all ingredients in a food processor or blender. Purée.

 

Black Bean Hummus

 

Ingredients: 

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• 1 ½ c. cooked black beans

(or 14 oz/398 ml can of beans, drained)

• 2 T water

• 2 T lemon juice

• 2 T salt-free herbal seasoning

(e.g. Mrs. Dash Lemon Herb)

• 2 T tahini

• 2 T low-sodium soy sauce

• ½ tsp cumin

• 1 - 2 cloves garlic

• dash cayenne pepper (or more!)

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Directions:

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Place all ingredients in a food processor or blender. Purée.

Adjust seasoning to taste.

Adjust water amount to achieve desired consistency.

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Serve hummus with veggies (marinated or plain), chips, pita triangles….

…or use in place of mayonnaise in sandwiches.

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.... Granola

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