What is the best recipe for hummos?

Answer 1

Traditional Hummus

3 Cans Garbanzo beans (drained)
3 - 4 tablespoons Tahini (Sesame butter)
4 - 6 cloves Garlic (chopped)
1 Lemon or lime
1/3 cup Olive Oil
Salt and Pepper to taste

1. Sauté the chopped garlic in oil over a low flame.

2. Juice the lime or lemon.

3. Place all of ingredients in a large blender. Blend well. This could take several minutes. Your hummus will be thick and have a dry consistency.

4. Add good water (not Southern California tap water if possible) in about 1/8 cup amounts and blend until he desired consistency is achieved.

5. Set the hummus in a service bowl. A few branches of parsley placed on the hummus adds a nice look to the dish.

6. Just before eating make an indent in the center of the hummus plate and pour a small amount of olive oil into the indent.

6. You can eat it right away, but the hummus improves if it sits overnight in the refrigerator.

Answer 2

I keep it simple. Open a can of garbanzo's dump them in the food processor. Add a bit of olive oil, a splash of lemon juice and some fresh garlic and some salt and pepper. Then process away until it's smooth. Sometimes I add parsely or peppers or kalamata olives, depends on what I'm cooking for. I know there are "real" recipes for it, but this is fast and simple and pretty darn good.

Answer 3

Easiest way:

1 can garbanzo beans (chickpeas), drained, liquid reserved
1 to 3 tablespoons tahini (sesame paste), to taste
1 tablespoon olive oil
Juice of one medium lemon
1 to 3 cloves garlic, mashed
Salt
Hot sauce (optional, but not in my house :-)

Place drained garbanzos into a blender or food processor along with lemon juice, salt, and garlic. Add about a quarter of the reserved liquid and start processing. Add liquid as required to get to the consistency you like (I usually put in less than half of the liquid).

Add tahini to taste (I like a lot, my wife doesn't, so we compromise on about 1-1/2 tablespoons), plus hot sauce if you choose. (I like to use sambal oelek or tuong ot-toi viet nam, which are very hot and also very garlicky, but in a pinch, Tabasco brand is fine.)

Basically, you mix it all up in a blender/processor, check the taste every so often, and when it's ready, you scoop it into a bowl and dip pita bread triangles into it.

Now... a friend of mine raised in Egypt says that there is NO comparison between using canned chickpeas and dried. I've never done the dried chickpea version, but essentially she says you just cook the chickpeas according to the package, then when they're done you follow the same basic recipe.

BTW, homemade pita bread is AWESOME -- easy recipe, the only real trick was in the technique of rolling out the pitas and then cooking on our pizza stone. I think we followed the recipe on the Food Network's Web site (as annoying as it is to use).

Answer 4

As is apparent from other answers, hummus is a mixture of chick peas, tahini, olive oil, garlic, lemon and salt/pepper. From there on out its just a question of quality of ingredients and proportions.

So long as you rinse canned chick peas very well, there shouldn't be a huge difference between making it with canned or dried (cooked). One advantage of cooking your own is that you get better control over how much salt is used.

I first made hummus from a recipe out of one of the Silver Palate cook books. It was loaded with olive oil and was very yummy. Make sure that you use a good quality olive oil. Olive oil is sort of like wine in that it ought to be good enough for you to enjoy by itself (or just with bread). If not, don't cook with it.

Check the date on the tahini and make sure its very fresh. Do not underestimate the importance of salt and pepper. And use as much--or as little--garlic and lemon as you want.

Answer 5

Here's my family's favorite - been a huge hit at multiple parties.

1/2 cup sesame paste (tahini)
2 cloves garlic
1/2 cup lemon juice
1 tsp salt
1 cup cooked chic pease or 1 can drained
1 1/2 tbs. olive oil
2 tbs. finely chopped parsley

Combine tahini, lemon jice, garlic, salt, & olive oil in blender. Blend well. Add chick pease slowly and continue to blend.

Feel free to adjust garlic, lemon jice, & salt to taste.

Enjoy!

Answer 6

Take it out of the container, and cook it in the disposal unit in your kitchen sink. Stir rapidly.

This is best.

Answer 7

Hummos or Home mo's you got me on that one I DUN'T KNOW.

Answer 8

Ok! First you open the packag then you throw it in the trash since the dog wont even eat that! YUK!