I thought it would be really great to take another whack at making hummus. I was wrong. Although the end result tasted delicious, my blender just refused – IT SIMPLY REFUSED – to make hummus. My hummus is 95% blended. You can’t win at everything, But I wish I could have won at Hummus.
I will give you the recipe. This is usually delicious and easy to make. Once I master the blending I plan on making all kinds of varieties of hummus. Pepper hummus – red roasted pepper hummus – spicy hummus and anxious hummus. (Anxious hummus is hummus with anxiety. This is only served to unwanted guests.)
Ingredients you need:
Tahini – Tahini is a little jar of sesame paste that is everywhere. I had never heard of this. When I found it I was so happy. It is relatively inexpensive. (4 dollars for a jar – this jar will last awhile.) Apparently, if you don’t use tahini you are breaking all kinds of hummus laws.
Lemon juice
Garlic
1 can of chick peas
You will notice I did not put amounts. This is becuase it’s up to you how you want your hummus to taste. For one can of chick peas, I would use at least a table spoon of tahini. If you don’t want garlickey hummus, only put half a table spoon of minced garlic. If you want lots of garlic flavours, then put at least two cloves, or one table spoon of minced garlic. I don’t like as much garlic as I do lemon – I put lots of lemon. Not too much – probably a couple teaspoons. Keep tasting you hummus. This is the only way you’ll know its turning out how you like it.
Now for the actual making of the hummus.
Put the lemon juice, tahini, and garlic in. Blend it like crazy. Be careful, don’t hurt yourself. Drain your chickpeas can and start adding the chickpeas.
When you blend the chickpeas you want to use the pulse setting. This what it will be like:
Pulse – fwoop (thats the chickpeas sinking in the middle) – pulse – fwoop. And so on.
Hopefully your blender doesn’t give you hard times. If it does – if your blender is not sweet to you – then you have to show it who the boss is. Squish the chick peas down, or try taking some out. This can get very messy. Maybe burrow a food processor instead of a blender. Whatever your method – blend your chick peas and mix them with the other ingredients.
Now you will have delicious hummus. I know it is delicious because even though mine was not fully blended it was still really good.
I eat the hummus with cucumber! You can see my shadow looming over it. Hilarity!
