Hummus is a traditional popular Mediterranean dish made from chickpeas, with the addition of various spices and olive oil. Let's find out how to make hummus at home.
Recipe hummus at home
Ingredients:
- dry peas - 300 g;
- sesame seeds - 50 g;
- zira - a pinch;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- lemon juice - 5 tbsp. spoons;
- salt - a pinch;
- olive oil or vegetable oil - 30 ml.
Preparation
Now tell you how to cook hummus at home. Turkish peas chickpeas washed and soaked in cold water for about 12 hours. After that, drain all the liquid, shift the swollen chickpeas into a saucepan, peel it and fill it with fresh water. We set to cook for about 2 hours on a weak fire. With the ready soft chickpea, gently pour the resulting broth into a separate bowl and store it.
On a dry frying pan, pour out the zir, and calcine it for 3 minutes, until a light, pleasant aroma appears. After that, pour it into a coffee grinder or blender and grind it. Then pour sesame seeds into the frying pan and also lightly fry the grains until a tender golden color appears and a pleasant smell. Then sesame cool and just grind in a coffee grinder.
The resulting sesame powder is poured neatly into the blender, add the purified garlic cloves, put a pinch of salt and pour in the olive oil. Grind the mass to homogeneity. Next, put a little boiled chickpeas into the mixture and pee in the blender, gradually pouring the broth from the chickpeas or boiled water. Continue to scroll the mass in the blender until all the chickpeas become a homogeneous consistency. During the preparation of this dish, it should be constantly tasted
Ready to put the hummus in a piallet, in the center with a spoon make a small groove and pour a little olive oil. We decorate the dish with whole peas of boiled chickpeas or peeled cedar nuts, season with sweet paprika. Hummus, cooked at home, lightly cool and served on a table with baked eggplants, vegetables or pita bread.