If she like hummus, you can do the same with pretty much any bean. Offer it in tiny dabs on dry celery sticks, other fresh vegetable slices, or any kind of flat bread.
Fat free "re-fried" beans can be used the same way or spread thinly onto bits onto any kind of corn or flour tortilla or soda cracker/ A bit of salsa on top can brighten the taste.
A novel way to use beans is in a sweet beans paste inside a baked apple. I got the recipe from a Chinese cookbook, but to tell the truth I don't think anyone I served it to like it. I think that used red beans.
Cooked beans can be finely mashed and used to to thicken a soup, It works best for a soup that has a lot of oil, one that you want to be a hearty. single dish meal.
My niece who otherwise gags on the texture of beans loves them in burritos. At a dinner at my house, she bravely started with refried beans spread thinly like peanut butter on part of the tortilla. The beans were barely there. Then she went ahead and built her burritos the way she really wanted it and pretended the beans were just a condiment. I don't know how she progressed, but now she is happy to eat meatless bean burritos. She does put on a lot of lettuce.
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