Slithering Hummus Bites ( Taste Of Home )

Ingredients

• 1 jar (7-1/2 ounces) roasted sweet red peppers, drained

• 1 can (15 ounces) garbanzo beans or chickpeas, rinsed and drained

• 1 garlic clove, halved

• 3 tablespoons lemon juice

• 2 tablespoons olive oil

• 2 tablespoons tahini

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 2 packages (1.9 ounces each) frozen miniature phyllo tart shells

• 30 pitted ripe olives

• Directions

  1. Cut one roasted pepper into 30 strips; place remaining peppers in a food processor. Add beans and garlic; pulse until chopped. Add lemon juice, oil, tahini and salt; process until blended.
  2. Pipe into shells. Stuff strips of red pepper into olives; press into filled shells. Yield: 2-1/2 dozen.
  Originally published as Slithering Hummus Bites in Halloween Bookazine 2015 2015, p76