This butter bean dip is very tasty, healthy, and vegan. The creamy texture makes it good for a dip. Also, it is very easy to make. This is such a healthy dip filled with superfood ingredients.

Butter Bean Dip Ingredients

Beans are the main ingredient in this butter bean dip. They are a good source of protein. Beans have the highest protein content of all plant foods. They provide about 10% of the total food protein consumed in the world and have about twice the protein content of most grains. Learn more about the health benefits of this Superfood.

Beans can be challenging to the digestive system due to their high fiber and starch. Learn 7 Ways To Avoid Gas from Beans.

I am quite fastidious about how to cook beans and lentils as I do not like experiencing the common thing we all associate beans with…GAS! I now feel good after eating beans and lentils because there is not all that gas and smelly farts.

It is easy to cook beans but it requires planning ahead of time. Learn how to cook beans, see my recipe. How To Cook Beans and Lentils To Prevent Gas

This butter bean dip is made extra tasty with the addition of lemon juice. Lemons’ health benefits are immense. To begin they are acidic to the taste but are alkaline-forming in the body. In fact, they are one of the most alkaline-forming superfoods; this makes them great for balancing a highly acidic condition in the body.

Garlic adds a great flavour to the butter bean dip. It has a strong odor for a reason, it is because of a sulfur compound. Sulfur compounds are well known for their strong odors. The allicin in garlic is also a powerful antibiotic, which fights infection and bacteria as well as an antioxidant. Many studies have confirmed that garlic in several forms can reduce cholesterol.

Olive oil adds a little more creaminess to this butter bean dip and it is packed with health benefits from helping with weight loss to improving digestion health to lowering bad cholesterol and much more. It’s one of the top oils you need in your kitchen. Learn all 12 of the 12 Health Benefits of Olive Oil.

Have you heard of the olive oil fraud? Find out Which Olive Oil to Buy. Olive oil was referred to as “Liquid Gold” by the famous Greek poet Homer. If you are what you eat, what would happen if you consumed “Liquid Gold” daily?

Himalayan Salt is a salt that is actually healthy for you!

So you see that all the ingredients in this butter bean dip are very healthy and actually full of health benefits.

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Creamy Butter Bean Dip

This butter bean dip is very tasty, healthy, and vegan. The creamy texture makes it good for a dip. Also, it is very easy to make. This is such a healthy dip filled with superfood ingredients.

Course Appetizer, Snack

Cuisine gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian

Keyword beans, butter bean, dip, garlic, Gluten-free, olive oil, Vegan, vegetarian

Author Diana Herrington

Ingredients

1 cup butter beans cooked
1 Tbsp olive oil
2 Tbsp lemon juice
1/2 onion finely chopped
1/2 Garlic Cloves finely chopped
Himalayan salt to taste
few sprigs of fresh parsley chopped
olives or green onions for garnish

Instructions

First cook beans according to the recipe on how to cook beans.
Mash the butter beans until they are smooth and creamy.*
Finely chop the onions and garlic.
Add the rest of the ingredients.
Mix together until well-blended.
Adjust seasoning to taste (salt, Lemon juice, olive oil, garlic).
If you are using parsley as your garnish, finely chop a few springs of parsley.
Put into a decorative bowl and garnish with green onions or olives or parsley.
Serve your butter bean dip with corn chips, wholemeal crackers or slices of raw vegetables which is my favourite way to eat a dip.

Notes

Learn How To Cook Beans and Lentils To Prevent Gas.

* you could use a blender to mash the beans but when I developed this recipe I did not have one by choice so I mashed them by hand! Garnish the dip with Green onions, olives or parsley.

So now that you have made your butter bean dip, here are a few more dip recipes to try.

More Healthy Vegan Dip Recipes

Fancy Pineapple Salsa – This pineapple salsa recipe is full of health the benefits of pineapple adding excitement to your party food, snacks or even a meal with this very tasty recipe.

Green Hummus is Simple – Made with Love and Parsley– Have you ever seen green hummus? I hadn’t until I made this parsley hummus. This green hummus is tasty as a dip with chopped veggies or chips, as a topping for a salad or as a spread on a cracker. A home-made one is always much better than a store-bought one.

Guacamole Is Delicious – Enjoy with This Easy Recipe – Guacamole is easy to make and delicious too! It is full of very healthy superfoods so it is a party dip or snack food that is good for us. The main ingredient is avocado which is bursting with lots of health benefits and are so strongly associated with fertility and aphrodisiacs. It is easy to make this and so delicious too!

Delicious Black Olive Tapenade – Tapenade with black olives was first made in Marseille, southern France in1880. It is a delicious spread that usually has anchovies in it but of course, my vegan site has left them out.

Authentic Middle Eastern Hummus – This is a traditional Middle Eastern Hummus dip; it is a blend of garbanzo beans, garlic, olive oil, and tahini. A great dip for a party or picnic. Who doesn’t enjoy delicious hummus? The other great thing about this dip is that it is dairy-free and gluten-free too.

Avocado Vegetable Dip is Delicious – What I like about this raw avocado vegetable dip is that it is full of vegetables; adding the celery makes it crunchy and not so rich as well as healthier.

Yogurt Dip – This vegan yogurt dip is nutritious with no additives that you get in store-bought dips. Also, it is simple and easy to make.