Beetroot and Mint Hummus-Style Dip

Name: Beetroot and Mint Hummus-Style Dip | Slimming & Weight Watchers Friendly
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Ingredients: 1 400g tin butter beans (drained); 1 cooked beetroot (you can use pickled beetroot see note above); 1 handful fresh mint (chopped. You can use mint sauce - see note above); 1 lemon (juice of); salt; 2 tsp white wine vinegar

For the full list of ingredients and comprehensive instructions, please see the recipe card below. Before you scroll, there’s important stuff in the blurb!

Our Beetroot and Mint Hummus-Style Dip is such a tasty and quick dip to make – just throw everything into a blender/food processor/bowl and attack it with a stick blender!

Inspired by Mr Marks & Spencer, we had the most amazing trio of dips from them at a barbecue in the summer and we just HAD to create our own slimming friendly version!

We love ours served with crudités (we pronounce them crud-ites – we’re not that posh!) and we think that it might actually be harder to prepare these than it is to make the dip! Top tip: cut your carrots, cucumber, celery length ways and on a diagonal to really help them scoop up as much hummus as possible without it dropping.

What diets is this Beetroot and Mint Hummus-Style Dip suitable for?

This Beetroot and Mint Hummus-Style Dip recipe is suitable for dairy free, gluten free, vegetarian and vegan diets.

Please make sure to double or triple check all of your ingredients if you’re cooking for people with allergies.

Do you need any special ingredients to make Beetroot and Mint Hummus-Style Dip?

This post contains affiliate links. Find out what this means.

We’ve used ready cooked beetroot in this Beetroot and Mint Hummus-Style Dip recipe, but you could probably use a large pickled one instead if you prefer. Just leave out the white wine vinegar, as you probably won’t need it.

You’ll also need a good handful of fresh mint. If you can’t get hold of any, then you can use 3 tsp of mint sauce instead just double check the nutritional values though as these can vary.

How many calories are in this Beetroot and Mint Hummus-Style Dip?

There are 156 calories per portion in this Beetroot and Mint Hummus-Style Dip recipe which means it falls into our Everyday Light category.

This Beetroot and Mint Hummus-Style Dip is perfect if you’re following a calorie controlled diet and fits well with any one of the major diet plans such as Weight Watchers.

As a guide, an average man needs around 2,500kcal (10,500kJ) a day to maintain a healthy body weight. For an average woman, that figure is around 2,000kcal (8,400kJ) a day. Obviously, if your goal is to lose weight then you might want to adjust these slightly! You can read more about these recommendations on the NHS website.