Ingredients (Preferably all organic)
(Includes basic proportions—and suggested seasoning can be adjusted to taste)
1 can cooked chickpeas (a.k.a. garbanzo beans)
4-6 cloves of raw garlic
1/3 cup (sesame seed) Tahini (in glass jar)
Juice of 1 lemon
1 cup olive oil
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon sweet red paprika
¼ teaspoon powdered ginger
½ cup fresh, chopped basil
½ cup fresh, chopped parsley
2-6 sprigs of uncut parsley leaves (for garnish)
1/8 teaspoon coriander
1/3 teaspoon turmeric
1/3 teaspoon salt
6-8 Kalamata olives (for garnish)
Directions
- Open can of chickpeas and drain
- Pour chickpeas into food processor
- Chop garlic and add to above
- PULSE contents and stop, intermittently, to drizzle olive oil on chickpea mass, to prevent clumping
- Add Tahini and lemon juice and purée mixture until it becomes creamy
- Pour into mixing bowl, add the herbs and spices and (if needed for softening or creaminess) drizzle more olive oil—mix well, until all ingredients are distributed evenly throughout the Hummus
- Cut olives off their pits and into halves
- Spoon Hummus into serving bowl and
- decorate with a sprinkling of red paprika, olive halves arranged in a pleasant design and top with parsley sprigs.
Voilá! You’ve got your very own, original Home-Made Hummus.
(See entertaining “Ha!Ha! Hummus” video at:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVi9cDiO0BKMFWB7R8WWPzw