Recipe for Chickpea Hummus

Hummus is a famous Middle Eastern delicacy! Here in Dubai, at most Arabic
restaurants, Hummus, Garlic Paste and Kuboos(Pita bread) are served with almost
every dish!

Every once in a while, I like to break the monotony of eating the typical spicy
Indian/Goan food and prefer purchasing Hummus, Pita Bread and Garlic paste from
the store.

Since I'm trying my best to avoid packaged foods, I decided to make Hummus at
home!

Not very sure if this is the right technique or method of making it, but it
turned out extremely delicious and creamy.

So, I'd like to share my version of Hummus with you!

You can make hummus of Red Kidney beans,(we've eaten this at an Egyptian
restaurant), Butter Beans(saw on Masterchef Australia) and any dried bean of
your choice. The best part about Hummus is that you can add a vegetable purée of
your choice too like beetroot, spinach, butternut, red spinach, etc. to give it
some extra flavour(or more like to hide the veggies that you're not really a fan
of😬)

Do give it a try!

Servings: 6 People

Author:

Prep Time
8 hours

Cook Time
20 minutes

Total Time
8 hours, 20 minutes

Course:

Main Course Appetizer

Cuisine:

Arabic

Keywords:

hummus humus Homous Houmus

🧂 Ingredients

1 cup Chickpeas(washed and soaked in room temperature water overnight for around 8-10 hours)
Juice of Half a lemon(you can add more if you like it lemony)
2 Tbspn Unsweetened Yogurt(curd)
2 Tbspn Olive Oil(Hummus tastes best with Olive Oil)
1 Tspn Salt
2 Medium cloves of Garlic(crushed)
Paprika for garnish(optional)
6 Tbspn Chickpea Stock(that remains after boiling the chickpeas)

Instructions

1 After soaking the Chickpeas, boil it in a pressure cooker till soft and keep it
aside to cool at room temperature

Note:- do not discard the stock
2 Once the boiled chickpeas come to room temperature, transfer them into a mixer
grinder and add the yogurt, lemon juice, crushed garlic, salt and Olive oil and
make a smooth paste by adding the chickpea stock little by little

Note:-The original Hummus gets its creamy texture from tahini(sesame seed paste)
but since I didn't want to use store bought Tahini, I substituted Tahini with
Full Fat Yogurt and it worked equally well.

Do not add the oil all at once. Add it little by little
3 Transfer the Hummus into bowls and dust some paprika and drizzle some olive oil
on the top and serve with Pita Bread!

Note:- You can have Hummus Warm, at room temperature or Cold, choice is yours.
4 You can store Hummus in an airtight container in the refrigerator for upto a
week.