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which_chickSo I decided to have hummus for dinner last night. If I were a normal person, the steps involved would be something like "Buy hummus at grocery, drive home, open container, chow down." I am apparently unable to do things like normal people, so my road to hummus was somewhat more involved.
Hummus recipe
1 15.5 oz can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
1/4 cup olive oil
1 clove garlic, smashed with garlic smasher
2 Tbsp tahini
2 Tbsp lemon juice
salt
paprika
You put everything but the paprika in a food processer and whir until it's hummus, then decorate with paprika. Some observations on the process follow.
1. It is NOT OKAY to use a hand mixer instead of a food processer. Putting chickpeas in a bowl and then putting in a hand mixer and turning it on is not a particularly successful strategy. The chickpeas leapt out of the bowl to save themselves. It wasn't pretty.
2. If you do not have a food processer, you need to preliminarily mash the chickpeas using a hand tool (I used a pastry blender) so that they are no longer able to leap out of the bowl. Then you can mix them with a mixer.
3. Tahini. Okay, it's an important ingredient. You can't skip it. Tahini is sold in cans. What you get in your can is like half an inch of air space, half an inch of oil, and the remainder of the can is a solid. It's a very solid solid, not the sort of thing where you can just stir up the oil and the solid and have tahini. There is half an inch of air space in the can but this is only to lull you into the idea that you can mix this stuff up in the can. You can't. It just makes a mess. Proper response is to empty the entire can (including the very solid solid) into a much larger container and apply mixer or blender. I stored my extra tahini in a recycled cottage cheese container because I think it'll be easier to empty out than the damn can.
4. 1 clove of garlic is kind of minimal. I used four. Yay garlic.
5. Your hummus will not really get smooth like the kind at the grocery store if all you have is a hand mixer. (I do not want a food processer. I do not need one. Please do not buy me one.) Lumpy is still pretty good.
6. You need something to eat your hummus with besides a fork. Many people use pitas. I don't like pita bread all that much. I made chapatis instead. :)
Despite the leaping chickpeas and very solid solids of tahini that's been let to set for a while, the hummus was freaking awesome.
Hummus recipe
1 15.5 oz can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
1/4 cup olive oil
1 clove garlic, smashed with garlic smasher
2 Tbsp tahini
2 Tbsp lemon juice
salt
paprika
You put everything but the paprika in a food processer and whir until it's hummus, then decorate with paprika. Some observations on the process follow.
1. It is NOT OKAY to use a hand mixer instead of a food processer. Putting chickpeas in a bowl and then putting in a hand mixer and turning it on is not a particularly successful strategy. The chickpeas leapt out of the bowl to save themselves. It wasn't pretty.
2. If you do not have a food processer, you need to preliminarily mash the chickpeas using a hand tool (I used a pastry blender) so that they are no longer able to leap out of the bowl. Then you can mix them with a mixer.
3. Tahini. Okay, it's an important ingredient. You can't skip it. Tahini is sold in cans. What you get in your can is like half an inch of air space, half an inch of oil, and the remainder of the can is a solid. It's a very solid solid, not the sort of thing where you can just stir up the oil and the solid and have tahini. There is half an inch of air space in the can but this is only to lull you into the idea that you can mix this stuff up in the can. You can't. It just makes a mess. Proper response is to empty the entire can (including the very solid solid) into a much larger container and apply mixer or blender. I stored my extra tahini in a recycled cottage cheese container because I think it'll be easier to empty out than the damn can.
4. 1 clove of garlic is kind of minimal. I used four. Yay garlic.
5. Your hummus will not really get smooth like the kind at the grocery store if all you have is a hand mixer. (I do not want a food processer. I do not need one. Please do not buy me one.) Lumpy is still pretty good.
6. You need something to eat your hummus with besides a fork. Many people use pitas. I don't like pita bread all that much. I made chapatis instead. :)
Despite the leaping chickpeas and very solid solids of tahini that's been let to set for a while, the hummus was freaking awesome.
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Date: 2011-03-24 07:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-27 12:07 am (UTC)Our version has 3:1 tahini:olive oil, and 1/4 tsp cumin in it. And a food processor for smoothening (as Peter would say).