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[serene]

Off to do laundry in a minute, then clean the house, then go to tonight's Meetup, but I wanted to post these two recipes while I'm thinking of it.



It's not exactly hummus -- I didn't have lemons, and I didn't feel like putting tahini in it. Still, yummy stuff.

Using my new toy (http://tinyurl.com/49qz5), I blended together the following:

1 can garbanzo beans, drained
1 large roasted red bell pepper (I used one from a jar)
2 cloves garlic
some olive oil (probably a tablespoon or so)




Today, I made hummus. So good. The best I've made.

1 can garbanzo beans, drained (I usually use garbanzos I've cooked,
but I got a really good deal on canned ones)
1 large roasted red pepper out of a jar
the juice of one lemon
2 cloves garlic
salt to taste (I didn't use any, but may next time)
about 2 tablespoons tahini, maybe a little more (I didn't measure --
more or less would've been fine)

I blended it all with my immersion blender. So good with pita triangles. I *love* hummus, but it's so expensive at the store. This made about two cups.

Comments

[charlottezweb.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmmmm! Those both sound so tasty! Tahini is definitely been my missing ingredient--that explains why my hummus never tastes as peanutbuttery as others.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I have to say I really love garbanzo spreads without tahini as well, but they don't taste like hummus to me.

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

Cool! I make garbanzo spreads sometimes, but usually wind up putting in curry powder, tomatoes, and onions along with everything else.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

My favorite non-hummus garbanzo spread is to take an onion, saute it in olive oil, and when the onion is soft, add a bunch of chopped parsley just so it wilts. Then I process (not puree) that up with garbanzos, lemon juce, and garlic. Yum.

[berkeleyfarm.livejournal.com]

Minus the roasted red pepper, that's about mine (from a Saudi-American pal, no less). And the immersion blender rools.

[malte.livejournal.com]

When I made hummus for the first time a few months ago, I discovered halfway through that I should have had a food processor to hand.

Now, I say instead that real men (well, and lesser mortals like me) make hummus with the bottom of a jamjar.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I'm not worthy!

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

I'm still really disappointed with my attempts to make hummous - above and beyond the fact that I never use salt, and even when I used an immersion blender. I note that your recipe as reported doesn't contain any oil, nor any liquid from the beans.

Help!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

The red pepper was pretty wet and there was lemon juice, and that's probably why I didn't have to add liquid, but when I do, I add some of the drained juice from the beans. I don't usually put olive oil in my hummus, but I do in other garbanzo spreads. If I were needing liquid I would, though.

[lcohen]

i'm leaving the red pepper out!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Okey-doke, but add something else for moisture (the liquid from the beans works great -- another option is veggie broth).