Directions

Combine the chick peas, garlic, lemon zest and juice, thyme, salt and pepper and hot sauce in food processor. Turn processor on and stream in the extra-virgin olive oil. Transfer the dip t a dish and surround with veggies and chips. That'll keep the munching going on until dinner!

Ingredients

  • 1 (15-ounce) can chick peas, drained
  • 1 clove garlic, cracked from skin
  • 1 lemon, zested and juiced
  • 4 to 5 sprigs fresh thyme leaves, stripped from stems
  • Coarse salt and pepper
  • A few drops hot sauce, to taste
  • 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil eyeball it
  • 4 ribs celery from the heart cut into dipping sticks, 4 inches long
  • 1/2 seedless cucumber, cut into sticks
  • 1 red bell pepper, trimmed and cut into sticks
  • 1/2 pint grape tomatoes
  • 1 sack reduced fat gourmet chips (recommended: Terra brand Garlic and Onion Yukon Gold flavor potato chips (50 percent less fat than regular chips))

Parsed from recipe text (no separate ingredient records).