Quick And Easy How To Make A Perfect Hummus Sandwich

You can prepare it with a homemade or store-bought hummus spread, crunchy fresh veggies, meaty jarred roasted red peppers, tangy pickled vegetables, and toasted slices of your favorite bread. This sandwich with creamy hummus is an excellent Mediterranean-inspired plant-based meal with plenty of flavors and a crave-able combination of textures and tastes. Dietary Note: this recipe is suitable for a vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free diet using gluten-free bread.Don’t have time to read the full blog post? JUMP TO RECIPE HERE!

What is a hummus sandwich?

Ingredients and substitutions for a sandwich with hummus

How to make a hummus sandwich

Serving suggestions

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It’s an excellent packed lunch, snack, or light dinner, served alongside creamy cauliflower soup, carrot ginger soup, or tabouli salad. You can make this recipe with your favorite store-bought hummus or with one of our homemade hummuses. Try our classic hummus recipe, hummus without tahini, roasted red pepper hummus, masabacha, and lentil hummus. Here, we use whole-grain bread, but you can also use warm pita bread, a wrap, sandwich bread, or homemade focaccia. Pick something crunchy (carrots), something leafy (spinach), something savory (roasted bell peppers or sundried tomatoes) and something creamy (avocado). Finish off with salt and pepper to taste and pickled vegetables, such as our quick-pickled red onions, jalapeños, or cucumber. You’ll love the combination of textures and flavors of this humble but fulfilling hummus sandwich recipe.

Hummus

If you are short on time, you can use store-bought hummus or make your own by following our hummus recipe. Or try different hummus flavors such as roasted bell pepper hummus, hummus without tahini, and lentil hummus. Substitute avocado spread, guacamole, curried chickpea salad, romesco sauce, white bean dip, vegan egg salad, and vegan tuna salad for regular hummus.

Bread

We use toasted whole grain bread cut into 1/5 inch or 1 cm slices. You can substitute sandwich bread, pita bread, sourdough bread, focaccia, and wraps, or pick your favorite bread.

Vegetables

We recommend mixing thinly sliced vegetables with different textures and colors to get a nutritious hummus sandwich that is fun and satisfying to eat. We use: CARROTS: Substitute thinly sliced radishes, cucumber, or red onion. SPINACH: Substitute arugula, watercress, lettuce leaves, radicchio leaves, or other leafy greens for spinach. AVOCADO: We slice it thinly. Substitute mashed avocado or thinly sliced tomato. ROASTED BELL PEPPERS: Use jarred or home-roasted red peppers. We recommend them because they add meatiness, umami, and a bold, savory flavor. Substitute sun-dried tomatoes in oil, sliced olives, or marinated artichoke hearts for roasted bell pepper.

Pickles

Pickled vegetables add tanginess and freshness and are essential to make the best hummus sandwich. We use our own quick pickled red onion. Substitute sliced pickled cucumbers, jalapeños, cabbage, or any other pickled vegetable for the onions.

Salt & Black pepper

To taste. Depending on the saltiness of your hummus, you might not need any salt.

Optional ingredients

Optionally, add crumbled vegan feta or regular feta cheese for an extra burst of umami. A drizzle of extra virgin olive oil is also optional. Halloumi cheese or vegan halloumi works well here, too. Cut thin slices, pan-fry them, or grill them on both sides for a few minutes. Sprouts are also an ingredient often found in hummus sandwich recipes; feel free to add them if you like.

1. Prepare the ingredients

Make the hummus or use store-bought hummus. Make the quick pickled red onions, or use store-bought pickles. Roast the bell pepper or use store-bought jarred red pepper. Thinly slice the carrot with a vegetable peeler or grate it with the large holes of a box grater. Thinly slice the avocado. Toast the bread slices.

2. Build the hummus sandwich

Spread a generous amount of creamy hummus on the bottom slice of bread (about 2 to 3 tablespoons). Spread a thinner layer of hummus on the top slice of bread (1 to 2 tablespoons) Top with roasted bell pepper, spinach, carrot, avocado, and pickled onions. Season with salt and black pepper to taste, and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil optionally. Cover with the top slice of bread, then cut in half with a serrated knife, trying not to apply too much pressure to the sandwich. Have it on its own for a fulfilling breakfast or mid-afternoon snack. For your lunch break, pair it with a salad or fruit. We recommend:

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For a healthy dinner, serve it next to a creamy soup like:

Lentil Salad

Tabouli (Tabbouleh)

Cucumber Tomato Salad

Lentil Sweet Potato Salad

Cauliflower soup Turkish lentil soup Carrot ginger soup Sweet potato soup Butternut squash soup Potato leek soup

Cauliflower Soup

Turkish Lentil Soup

Sweet Potato Soup

Potato Leek Soup

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This is an excellent combination of mashed chickpeas, vegan mayo, pickles, and other simple ingredients, with a mild scent of the ocean. Here’s our chickpea tuna.

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This creamiest, most delicious avocado spread with tahini and lemon is excellent for wraps and sandwiches. Here’s our avocado spread recipe. Here’s our vegan egg salad recipe.

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Satisfying tofu meatballs hugged by a flavor-packed marinara sauce. Excellent for stuffing in a sub sandwich. Here’s our tofu meatball recipe.

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Breaded eggplants, fresh basil, and marinara sauce. It’s the perfect trio to go in a warm sub sandwich. Here’s our breaded eggplant and marinara sauce recipes. Refrigerator: Keep the sandwich in an airtight container in the fridge for 6 to 12 hours. Freezer: The recipe is not suitable for freezing. Reheat: We reheat our hummus sandwich in the air fryer for 2 minutes.