Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Avocado Feta Hummus Layered Vegetable Appetizer

Avocado Feta Hummus Layered Vegetable Appetizer

Avocado feta hummus is a pretty and protein-rich vegetarian appetizer. Customize your platter with diced vegetable toppings and use pita chips or sliced vegetables as dippers.


Image of a plate of Avocado feta hummus topped with diced peppers, olives, and red onions served with a bowl of pita chips


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Being an intentionally seasonal eater means I get to eat amazingly delicious foods.  Fresh food--tomatoes, strawberries, even celery--just tastes better and I'm usually willing to wait out the winter months for those fresh tastes.  But if I limited my diet to solely local foods, I'd miss out on bananas, avocados, olives, shrimp, chocolate, salmon, tea . . . lots of stuff!


I compromise, of a sort, and think Kristy's idea of eating 80% local/20% other, as described in her podcast, is a terrific idea.  Every beet we eat is locally grown.  All the kale, as well. Much of the tomatoes and tomato-based products we eat are from my backyard and our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm share. I make enough pesto to last us for the year.  I'm also good with garlic, between roasting my own crop and using the fresh stuff from the farm share.


photo of Avocado feta hummus served as a layered appetizer topped with feta cheese, red onion, green olives, and yellow peppers


Avocados are an area where I enjoy breaking out of the local foods mode. After all, no avocado trees grow in my backyard (although I did have a banana tree when we lived in Hawaii)! Several years of resolving to add more avocados to my life [this is a New Year's Resolution more should adopt--it's fun!] means I am happy to report that I've gone beyond guacamole and avocado toast.


As soon as I tried the combination of salty feta and creamy avocado in Maria and Josh's Avocado Feta dip I was hooked. I keep coming back to that combination. I shared an Avocado Feta Lemon Yogurt Dip, and today I've made it into a hummus.


Avocado feta hummus is good as a stand alone dip--but it sings when you layer it with fresh & preserved vegetables and additional cheese then scoop it up with fresh veggies and pita chips.


I think this dip--with the green olives, yellow peppers, and red onion--looks like Easter egg colors.  I'm sharing it now just because I thought it would be a nice Easter appetizer, and I like to plan ahead.



I know I've shared a lot of vegetable appetizers--I think snacking on veggies is a cool tip to increase our produce intake. Having vegetable appetizers is a delicious way to feed my family vegetables when there aren't a lot of fresh ones available from our farm share.


Avocado feta hummus is good as a stand alone dip--but it sings when you layer it with fresh & preserved vegetables and additional cheese then scoop it up with fresh veggies and pita chips.


For more recipes using avocados, please see my Avocado Recipes Collection. It's part of the Visual Recipe Index by Ingredient, a resource for folks like me eating from the farm share, the farmer's market, the garden, the neighbor's garden, and great deals on ugly produce at the grocery store.

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image of ingredients used to make avocado feta hummus



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Want more ideas for layered vegetable appetizers? Just click on the photo to go to each recipe:Avocado Feta Hummus Layered Vegetable Appetizer | Farm Fresh Feasts http://www.farmfreshfeasts.com/2014/01/buffalo-butternut-squash-hummus.html http://www.farmfreshfeasts.com/2014/04/avocado-feta-hummus-layered-vegetable.html http://www.farmfreshfeasts.com/2013/08/layered-summer-veggie-appetizer.html http://www.farmfreshfeasts.com/2014/03/avocado-lemon-feta-yogurt-dip.html http://www.farmfreshfeasts.com/2013/06/five-layer-mediterranean-chicken-dip.html http://www.farmfreshfeasts.com/2013/08/fattoush-dip-with-kale-hummus.html Image Map


15 comments:

  1. I'm with you -- if I only ate local, I'd miss lemons, coffee, shrimp, avocado, and a bunch of things that simply don't grow here in New England.

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    1. Lydia,
      Lemons! I utterly forgot about the whole citrus angle. I think I need an orangery, like I've seen at Monticello and Montpelier and wherever else we've toured. And, like, a mansion to have all the space for an orangery, and gardeners and housekeepers and all that . . .
      Thanks!

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  2. And mangos! And hibiscus tea! And … and … and! I love your layered dips!

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    1. Alanna,
      I went to a Local Foods Symposium last fall, and the keynote speaker started off his presentation by holding up a mango and asking the audience to identify what it was. He said his love of mangoes was why he could never be a 100% local eater (while living in Ohio, I suppose would be the caveat). My list of foods just keeps getting longer!
      Thanks!

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  3. Look at you putting the linkable collage to work so quickly. I'm impressed. Perhaps you can hop over to my blog next and get it all spruced up. My recipe section is in dire need of work. Sure, you'd have to learn Wordpress but if anybody could do it, it'd be you. I'd be forever grateful.

    These photos came out amazing! For real, they're beautiful and I can't wait to try this dip, and of course I will because I love all your dips. Your muffins too, but that's a different story for a different day.

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    1. Meghan,
      I snorted tea out of my nose--thinking I can learn WP--HA! Good grief I'm still blindly stumbling around Blogger! But thank you--I'm kinda chuffed with myself about these collages. And the dips. And the muffins. And the Cheater Margarita Smoothies.

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  4. This is just stunning; from start to finish! :) That collage looks good, too! I swear, it's so nice to see the results of my tutorials from other people! Makes my heart sing! I've stumbled this post & pinned it & +1'd because I NEED that hummus in my life!

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    1. Anyonita,
      Thank you so much! I'm so glad you shared your knowledge!

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  5. Loving your hummus!!! It's everything that's right with the world: feta, avocado, chick peas. Deeeeeeeelicious!

    And how impressive are you?!! How did you make that click-able collage??

    PS. Thank you for the shout out!! xoxoxoxo! Means the world to me and my little podcast.

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    1. Kristy,
      Thank you! You can get Anyonita's tutorial on mapping your photos here: http://www.anyonita-nibbles.co.uk/2014/03/how-to-make-every-image-in-collage-link.html
      It's very easy to follow along, and she's got a video to show you as well--covers all learning styles!

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  6. Well, your Avocado, Feta Hummus so does look good, I'm going to have to try that one.
    Thank you for sharing with the Clever Chicks Blog Hop! I hope you’ll join us again next week!

    Cheers,
    Kathy Shea Mormino
    The Chicken Chick
    http://www.The-Chicken-Chick.com

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    1. Kathy,
      It's a really yummy dip and the whole layered vegetable concept has me smitten. Now that I know my spouse is on board I'm thinking we'll have a lot of cool Dip Dinners this summer.
      Thanks!

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  7. Hello, just wanted to tell you, I loved this blog post.
    It was inspiring. Keep on posting!

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  8. Saved as a favorite, I love your site!

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  9. I couldn't resist commenting. Very well written!

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