One ordinary day, we decided it was silly for us to be buying hummus premade. We should just whip it up ourselves. We had gotten lazy and found ourselves spending money on a product we could make at home, for less cost.
So we set out to make some hummus. We wanted it to be unique, so we looked at quite a few variations on recipes, to get an idea about the common ingredients. Then we embarked on a series of experimental creations.
With each batch, TRDad carefully recorded the amounts of each ingredient used, until we hit on a reliable recipe that produced a crowd-pleasing hummus. And here it is!
Ingredients (This recipe is easily cut in half, if you think you need a smaller batch!):
1 Cup Dried Garbanzo Beans
3 Cloves Garlic
1/3 Cup Olive Oil
½ Cup Lemon Juice
1 Cup Tahini
½ t Salt
½ t Pepper
1/3 Cup Water
Process:
Boil beans in 2 or three quarts of water for an hour or so until they are pretty soft. Extra water helps make sure your beans don’t boil dry on you if you get distracted.
Put garlic cloves in the food processor with a few tablespoons of oil. Pulse until diced.
Add beans. Pulse until beans begin to cream.
Add the rest of the oil, the lemon juice, salt and pepper and tahini. Puree until smooth.
Add water to get the consistency you like, a little extra water can make your hummus dippable, if you like it that way.
Adjust flavor with small amounts of tahini or lemon juice.
Try ours out, and then modify it (More garlic? Less? Roasted Red Peppers? Kalamata Olives?) for the taste that your crowd will love.
We like to make hummus when we are making Daddy Bread. But it also goes great with pitas, or tortilla chips—or anything else you like to dip!