Hummus Recipes

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Italian White Bean Hummus Recipe

 

Delicious and healthy summer dip

 

In North America, hummus is one of the most popular and loved dishes

from the Mediterranean and Middle East regions. It's an exotic blend

of pureed chickpeas or other fleshy beans, lemon, sesame tahini, and

oil. Spices such as roasted garlic, roasted red peppers, scallion, and

dill are sometimes added for a flavor twist.

 

Hummus is traditionally used as a dip for pita bread, corn chips,

crackers, or fresh-cut vegetables. Many people use hummus as a spread

on sandwiches to substitute mayonnaise or as a main ingredient in a

vegetarian sandwich.

 

This is Chef Sabra Ricci's Italian White Bean Hummus recipe. It's

delicious and very versatile. I suggest making a batch on the weekend

and then using it throughout the week in sandwiches, as a dip for

pre-cut and cleaned veggies like carrot sticks, celery sticks, or

broccoli, on toast, or as a substitute for mayo.

 

Italian White Bean Hummus

 

Serving Size: 16

Preparation Time: 15 minutes

 

Ingredients

 

2 cups white beans, canned, drained and rinsed

1/4 cup tahini

1/4 cup lemon juice

2 teaspoons garlic,

 

minced

1 teaspoon cumin powder

dash cayenne

2 ounces extra-virgin olive oil

warm water

 

Method

Combine beans, tahini, lemon juice, garlic, cumin, and cayenne in the

food processor. Blend and gradually add oil and warm water until the

mixture has a creamy consistency. Refrigerate overnight for the best

flavor.

 

Serving Ideas - Serve with warm pita triangles.

 

 

Hummus

 

This flavorful middle-eastern dip recipe is wonderful with fresh

vegetables or crisp crackers. You can find tahini in most

supermarkets, in the ethnic foods aisle.

 

1 can (15 oz.) garbanzo beans, drained, reserving 1/3 cup liquid

3 Tbsp. lemon juice

1/2 cup tahini (sesame seed paste)

1 clove garlic, pressed OR 4 cloves roasted garlic, mashed

1 tsp. salt

 

Mash beans and blend with lemon juice, tahini, garlic and salt. The

texture of the finished dip is up to you - make it totally smooth or

leave some beans unmashed for more texture. Serve with pita crisps,

crisp crackers or French bread slices.