The BEST Hommous recipe ever.
 

I just made this and had to share. Great snacking with carrot & celery sticks !!!!! I got sick of buying expensive snacks at work from the vending machine and have started taking this with me instead.


Rob's Killer Hommous

Ingredients:
13 oz (375 g) bag of dried Chick Peas
This quantity makes two batches. For EACH batch you will need:

1 Tbls Garlic minced
4 Tbls Tahini
2 Tbls Lemon Pressed Olive Oil (regular if lemon not available)
2 Tsp Salt (taste and adjust)
1 Tsp Pepper (to taste)
1 Tbls Chive paste or 2 Tbls chopped fresh chives
3/4 Cup Water
8 Tbls Lemon Juice

Method:

1. Soak the peas in cold water for 8 hours.
2. Drain and place peas in fresh water. Bring to boil and pressure cook for 50 mins (or boil for 80 mins)
3. Divide peas into two lots. This is to prevent Food Processor Overload.
4. To a batch of peas in the food processor, add the Garlic, Tahini, Olive oil, Salt, Pepper & Chives.
5. Process 30 sec or so until it starts making a ball.
6. Add the Lemon Juice & Water and continue processing until smooth and creamy, scraping down sides occasionally. I like to turn the processor on and pour the lemon/water mix slowly in a stream from above.
7. This makes a really light, deliciously creamy dip, which is really low fat & good for you. Each batch makes about 850g (14 oz) - this will fill your typical large plastic takeaway container (in Aus, that is... not sure about USA takeaway containers)
8. If you want to make it even healthier, oil and salt can be omitted as desired.

Pressure cooker? Do people still use those? Do companies still make those?

Boil the peas? Boil?

It's quicker than sucking them until they're soft. :p

I LOVE my pressure cooker that I bought last year - How else can you cut your gas bill by half ?


(no answer required here, folks - rhetorial question. Move along please)

Stop eating at Taco Bell?

Far be it from me to question the BEST hummus recipe ever...but as my mom learned to make it in Israel, I'll let the masses be the judge.... ;)

Drain a can of chick peas/garbanzo beans. Toss into food processor and blend. Add a couple dashes of lemon juice. Add tahini until you get the consistency you want.

Serve topped with generous olive oil, more tahini, and paprika. Don't forget to warm the pita bread.

I know you say it's rhetorical, but you can start by not HAVING a gas bill in the first place.

Whether a pressure cooker would help with the electric bill...I dunno about that. I suspect most of that bill has to do with the A/C.

I'll just stick to the canned chick peas. ;)

CANNED chick peas ?? What's the world coming to?

...even as used by Israelites !! Has modernism & convenience killed good old fashioned cooking ? The love that goes into the pressure cooker, imbueing each chick pea with the doting warmth of the cooks passion for the feast ??

Pshaw. It's the old-fashioned way for me.

*sings*

"I'm just an old-fashioned bear, with an old-fashioned mind,
well sophisticated, I'm the plain & swanky kind,
I want an old-fashioned house, with an old-fashioned fence,
and an old-fashioned preeeesure cooooker.. (and air-con) "

:coffee:

Hummus isn't hummus without lots and lots of garlic.