Hummus
Up: 🍳Home cooking
Ingredients
- 400 g tin of chickpeas
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1 lemon
- 3-5 tbsp tahini
- 2-4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 2-5+ tbsp water
Method
- Drain and rinse chickpeas thoroughly.
- Grate or crush garlic.
- Squeeze lemon for its juice (optional: also zest half).
- Blend everything together, adding the water as necessary to make a light fluffy consistency.
Tip
Use a blender rather than a food processor if possible as food processors will take much longer and will potentially still be grainy unless you have taken the skins off all the chickpeas.
Tip
Once you are used to making the basic recipe to your taste, try variations such as:
- adding red pepper and paprika
- using several roasted garlic cloves instead of one raw clove for garlic hummus
- adding half a tsp ground coriander or cumin.