Did you know you can cook with oils? Well, let me stop you there NOT ALL OILS. Meaning if you got some oils from walmart or amazon I cannot and will not vouch for those. Young Living though has a vitality line that is for cooking and I use them every week for so many things. Hummus, Spaghetti Sauce, juices, meatballs, fruit salad, mixed drinks. You name it.

Basically if the recipe calls for something that I have an oil for I typically use an oil. Why? Two reasons. Less waste. I have been known to buy a huge thing of basil or several lemons and don’t use them fast enough before they go back therefore wasting money and food. A bunch of basil is $3.99 at the store. My 5ml basil viability oil is $11.50 and has 80 drops in it. Lasting me over a year. The second reason is potency. The oil is way more potent than the actual item itself because its using way more than one leaf or one lemon per bottle. Approx 15 lemons are used for one bottle of oil. Yep, thats a lot BUT they get used 😉

I always make my hummus with lemon. Instead of using store bought lemon juice I use a couple drops of lemon oil.

Hummus recipe at the bottom of blog post