The same dinner with Sean Hooper which gave us ideas for dips produced this. Again, we had never thought of making our own. Since then we have saved a bomb compared with buying humous, and have developed lots of variations.
Note: what makes this home-made humous so much better than a lot of shop stuff is that they often use vegetable oil, which is greasy and isn't anything like as nice in humous as olive oil. Use extra virgin if you have it - you will notice the difference.
Ingredients
Olive oil (extra virgin is best)
one or two cloves of garlic, crushed
juice of one lemon
light tahini - about two or three dessertspoonfuls or so. Difficult stuff to measure!
one tin of chick peas, well drained and rinsed
a pinch or three of salt
black pepper, ideally freshly ground
splash of water if required
Method
Pour olive oil into the base of a food processor - about three millimeters deep. In our old Kenwood Chef it just covers the bottom cutter.
Add everything else and whizz! If after a minute or so it still looks a bit granular and unintelligent, add a tiny amount of cold water.
Variations: No lemons? Try an orange for a different taste. Grapefruit (half is enough) makes it fluffy but nice (I knew a girl like that once.) No fruit, but you do have pure lemon or orange or grapefruit juice? Go ahead! We have tried apple juice when we had a humous crisis but no other fruit or juice. We often add a splash of apple juice instead of water.
Using dried chick peas, soaked overnight: tried it, but it doesn't seem to work anything like as well as tinned.
I even made some with butter beans once, when I opened the wrong can! It was different, but OK.
Note: what makes this home-made humous so much better than a lot of shop stuff is that they often use vegetable oil, which is greasy and isn't anything like as nice in humous as olive oil. Use extra virgin if you have it - you will notice the difference.
Ingredients
Olive oil (extra virgin is best)
one or two cloves of garlic, crushed
juice of one lemon
light tahini - about two or three dessertspoonfuls or so. Difficult stuff to measure!
one tin of chick peas, well drained and rinsed
a pinch or three of salt
black pepper, ideally freshly ground
splash of water if required
Method
Pour olive oil into the base of a food processor - about three millimeters deep. In our old Kenwood Chef it just covers the bottom cutter.
Add everything else and whizz! If after a minute or so it still looks a bit granular and unintelligent, add a tiny amount of cold water.
Variations: No lemons? Try an orange for a different taste. Grapefruit (half is enough) makes it fluffy but nice (I knew a girl like that once.) No fruit, but you do have pure lemon or orange or grapefruit juice? Go ahead! We have tried apple juice when we had a humous crisis but no other fruit or juice. We often add a splash of apple juice instead of water.
Using dried chick peas, soaked overnight: tried it, but it doesn't seem to work anything like as well as tinned.
I even made some with butter beans once, when I opened the wrong can! It was different, but OK.
