Hooray for Hummus!
Let’s just cut to the chase here, does anyone else put hummus on their toast? Cause I do and didn’t really think too much of it. Apparently, it’s really weird. I don’t see why, toast is delicious, hummus is delicious, together they are more delicious. It’s a win-win for those of us that prefer the savoury side of breakfast. I suppose I should say that this hummus works on more traditional dishes not exclusively for us brave toast adventurers. However you’re using your hummus it’s cheap to make and endlessly customizable.
What You Need:
- 1 540mL can of chickpeas (or the more fun name Garbanzo Beans!)
- 1/4 cup Olive oil
- 2 tbsp Lemon juice
- 2 tbsp Tahini
- Garlic
- Pepper, Paprika, and Cumin to taste
What I really love about making hummus is that I will usually already have the ingredients I need for it. Except maybe the tahini but you can substitute any nut butter in its place.
I was feeling like some roasted flavours. Harness your camping skills and make a tin foil pocket for the garlic cloves, drizzle with a little oil and throw them in the oven for 10-15 minutes.
In a food processor blend up the tahini, lemon juice and olive oil until smooth-ish. Gear up for A LOT of mixing and scraping down sides. That’s 90% of making Hummus.
Drain the can of chickpeas but keep the liquid. I just learnt that chickpea can juice is actually called Aquafaba. Say it out loud it’s such a wonderful word! Aquafaba would be the name of my pop band for sure. Aquafaba. Aquafaba. Aquafaba. It just gets better every time. Make sure to keep your Aquafaba to adjust the consistency of your hummus later on.
Add the chickpeas to the food processor. What’s next? You guessed it much more blending and scraping and blending and scraping. It won’t seem like it but it will blend together smoothly.
At this point, I had to take a break to wrap up and hold the cat I was watching like a baby. She needs a lot of attention.
By this time the garlic should be done roasting. Add that as well as the cumin, pepper, and paprika.
Here is where that Aquafaba comes in! In small increments add your Aquafaba to adjust the consistency of the hummus. I added a tablespoon at a time with more blending and scraping and blending. But the hummus will be worth it!
Serve up a bowl, drizzle with a little extra olive oil and sprinkle some paprika on top. Next step is to start eating broccoli to be all healthy and then switch over to chips after you take this photo.
-Hannah
