Hummus (or hummus) is a pasty food made from chickpeas. In fact, hummus is a puree of cooked-up chick pea with the addition of olive oil, ground sesame seed and lemon juice, sometimes various other products are introduced into the composition: garlic, paprika, spices, cheese, vegetables and other shredded flavoring components .
The origin and distribution of hummus
Hummus, one of the most ancient dishes of mankind, originally has a Middle Eastern-Mediterranean origin, for these countries and now, such food is traditional. In recent years, hummus is gaining popularity in all countries of the world, which is not surprising, it is an excellent protein food for people unable to consume foods with gluten and vegetarians. Such food is extremely useful: it contains protein, useful fats, vegetable fiber, many vitamins and mineral compounds.
Hummus is usually served as a cold snack or as a thick sauce with pita, lavash, bread or corn chips.
Preparation of hummus from chickpeas at home is a simple matter, let's tell how to prepare this dish in the basic version.
Hummus classic - a recipe for cooking at home
Ingredients:
- dry chickpea - 2 cups;
- sesame seed - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- extra virgin olive oil - 5 tbsp. spoons;
- lemon - 0,5 pcs.
Preparation
Soak the chickpeas from the evening or at least an hour for 4, it is not cooked fast. Swollen chickpeas washed, poured with clean water, so that it covers 3 fingers and cook in a cauldron or stew-pan until cooked (we determine the taste). It will take about 2 hours (you can pour water). We merge into a separate liquid a liquid in which chickpea was brewed, cool it.
Sesame seed can be thinned out in a coffee grinder or added in kind.
To grind the chickpeas into a paste, use a blender, a meat grinder or a hand-baked toast. We connect with sesame, olive oil and lemon juice. A little salt, now, hummus and ready, already eaten, but it will become much more delicious if you season it with chopped garlic, hot red pepper or a mixture of spices, curry, for example, sweet paprika,
Fresh cilantro, parsley, basil, tarragon and others is more convenient to grind in a blender or it is necessary to grind it well with a knife. You can cook from hummus falafel (balls fried in oil).
Season humus with grated dry old pickle cheese, pasta from lightly salted herring, hard-boiled eggs, cream and even chocolate.
If you served hummus and tortillas, it's good to have fresh black tea with mint, karkade or coffee on the table.