Add vegetables to your snack game with this Healthy Vegan Carrot Spread!
Save This Recipe!
Enter your email and I'll send it straight to your inbox. Plus you'll get new recipes from me every week!
By submitting this form, you consent to receive emails from Happy Healthy Mama.
I have an affinity for snacking. When my body is telling me it’s hungry, I’m just not good at saying, “So sorry my friend, you must wait until the next scheduled meal”. So I don’t. When I’m hungry, I eat. (And sometimes when I’m bored, too, but I’m working on that.)
The problems lies with the crazy over-processed convenient snack foods that line our grocery store shelves. When I’m hungry for a snack, I want it now, not in the twenty or thirty minutes it would take me to prepare something fresh. But I don’t want to put all the crap ingredients into my body that come with those quick-and-easy pre-packaged snack foods.
My solution is to prepare fresh foods ahead of time, so when hunger strikes my snack is ready. I especially love dips and spreads. They are perfect for munching on fresh vegetables (pre-cut, of course) or spreading on crackers. I often prepare a large enough portion of a dip or spread so that it will last me a week.
If you’re really sharp you are probably thinking, “Hey, aren’t crackers full of junk ingredients?”. Good work. Yes, they often are. You can find crackers that are more healthy than the standard ones, however. You want to look for crackers that use whole grain flours only and don’t have hydrogenated oils.
Snack Attack: Healthy Vegan Carrot Spread
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: approx 1 cup 1x
Description
A healthy carrot spread for snacking
Ingredients
- 1 pound carrots, peeled and cut into 1/2 inch pieces
- 1/4 c. roasted sunflower seeds (salted)
- 2 teaspoons vegetable oil of your choice (I use grapeseed oil as that is what the original recipe suggests)
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 tsp. curry powder
- 1/2 tsp. ground cumin
- 1 tbs. fresh lemon juice
- dash cinnamon
Instructions
- Cook the carrots by steaming them, about 10 minutes or until soft. Allow them to cool.
- In a blender or food processor, pulse the sunflower seeds until they are crumbs. Add the rest of the ingredients and continue to process until the mixture is smooth. You may need to scrape down the sides a few times to make sure everything is evenly incorporated. Allow to chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes and then serve. If you can’t wait, go ahead and dig in!
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Dip
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: whole recipe
- Calories: 343
- Sugar: 22g
- Sodium: 316mg
- Fat: 16g
- Carbohydrates: 47g
- Protein: 6g
that sounds interesting! we usually snack on carrots with hummus so this would be a good change! thanks for the idea! -Colleen