All you need are a few ingredients, a blender or a food processor, and 5 - 10 minutes
It's a basic recipe and should be played with. You might like more or less garlic, tahini, lemon juice, olive oil, etc.
It's also fun to add things to it such as roasted red peppers, parsley, cilantro, etc. Whatever tastes good to you can and should be added. Just make sure you keep an eye on the consistency of the hummus. For example, I find when I added roasted red peppers, I need to add less liquid.
Basic Hummus 1 can chick peas (garbanzo), drained (liquid reserved) and rinsed
1 garlic clove, smashed
2 Tablespoons Tahini
2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
Juice of one lemon ( 1/2 lemon if large)
Drain the chick peas, keeping the liquid and then rinse the chick peas. Add the chick peas to the blender
Smash the garlic clove so it blends better. Add the garlic to the blender.
Scoop 2 Tablespoons of tahini into the blender.
Make sure you stir it up. It does separate.
And what is tahini anyway? It has a consistency similar to peanut butter. It's a puree of roasted sesame seeds. The brand I use is the least expensive I can find. Tahini can be a little hard to find in the grocery store. Sometimes it's by the peanut and nut butters, sometimes it's in the natural aisle. If you don't see it, ask. They most likely have it.
Juice the lemon and add it to the blender. Here I microwaved the lemon for 15 seconds to get it warm. It helps make it even juicier. Also, I only juiced 1/2 of the lemon because it was quite large.
Here's everything in the blender and it's ready to go. Blend away
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You will most likely need to add more liquid. I take the leftover liquid from the can of chick peas and slowly dribble some in with the blender running until it's the consistency I'm looking for.
Here's the finished product for a fraction of the cost of the grocery store and much better because you know everything in it.
Note for the BMC gang:
Hummus is a fat - 1/4 c. is a serving.
I couldn't get a clear picture of the ingredient label on the chick peas or tahini, so here's the info from the pictured ingredients
Nature's Promise Organic Garbanzo Beans
Ingredients:
Prepared Organic chickpeas, Water, Sea Salt.
Nutrition Facts: (even though we don't need them on this product)
Total Fat: 1 g
Saturated Fat: 0 g
Dietary Fiber: 7 g
Sugars 0 g
Joyva Seaame Tahini
Ingredients:
Roasted Sesame Seeds
Nutrition Facts: (even though we don't need them on this product)
Total Fat: 18 g
Saturated Fat: 2.5 g
Dietary Fiber: 1 g
Sugars: 0 g
