10-04-2024, 08:06 PM
This post was last modified 10-05-2024, 02:29 PM by UltraBudgie.
Okay today is making humus! Which is sort of like mashed potatoes except with chick peas. I bought a six pack of pitas on monday and I need to have something to put in them! And its sort of late in the day to start making humus but I am anyway because I had a coffee when I went out to do errands a while ago and now I am soaking the chick peas and will type up the recipe for practice and so you can enjoy lucky you haha!
Humus
1 1/2 cup dried chick peas
3 cloves of garlic
1 1/2 tsp salt
dash of tamari or soy sauce
2 medium lemons
3/4 cup tahini
1/4 cup minced parsley
black pepper
dash of cayenne pepper (optional)
1/4 cup mined green onions
Okay well you probably see where this is going its not hard to make you just put the stuff together but here is a step by step!
1. Sift though the chick peas they're also called garbanzo beans and pick out any that don't want to be humus. Then rinse them off and put them in a pot with water to cover them by an inch or two and put it on the stove and boil the water then, see, you turn off the heat and cover the pot and let it soak. That's about an hour and a half and what I am waiting on now while I type this
2. Drain them and rinse off the beans and put them back into the pot and add water again and boil it. Except this time you simmer instead of turning off the heat. Cover it and simmer it for another hour and a half or perhaps longer, you want the beans or peas or whatever they are to be soft and squishy. Oh and I like to use distilled water because tap water yuk but yours may be okay
3. Well now drain the chick peas and put them in a bowl and use a potato masher or a fork and you want to make a smooth paste. This can be a lot of work I am going to try and use an immersion blender this time to see if that makes it easier but don't quote me it might not work you just have to be patient
4. You'll want to turn the garlic into paste not chunky a good trick I use is to chop it small, then sprinkly the salt on it and use the edge side of a knife to grind it up against a cutting board. The salt will make grind into a paste and no it doesn't need to be a silver knife harry potter fans haha
5. So mix in the garlic and salt and a dash of tamari (which is like soy sauce except made from wheat) and the juice from two smallish lemons not the seeds! I guess one gigantic lemon would work too. Really its all to taste because you also add a tiny pinch of cayenne and lots of black pepper more than you would think really.
6. The tahini is ground up sesame seeds paste stored under oil that you can get at the grocery store for far more that it should cost. Put in 3/4 of a cup and perhaps some of the oil it is stored under as well, and mix in the green onions (which are scallions except not?) and parsley.
7. Mix it all up really well and adjust the taste so you like it more salt, some olive oil, etc etc remember you can add things but you can't take them out! So you may want to not add all the lemon juice until this step if thats a thing for you.
8. It goes in the fridge and gets chilly! Eat it with pita like I'm going to or vegetable sticks or whatever really.
Okay tell me if you like it or if you like humus or if you know for sure if its spelled humus or hummus the spell checker thinks both are okay!
Edit to add that this worked out great and I now have more hummus that a man probably should haha, the immersion blender is not a bad idea and works well to make it less chunky though its probably too thick to get a really smooth puree and I'm glad I waited to add the lemon til the end because I only needed one and a half!
Humus
1 1/2 cup dried chick peas
3 cloves of garlic
1 1/2 tsp salt
dash of tamari or soy sauce
2 medium lemons
3/4 cup tahini
1/4 cup minced parsley
black pepper
dash of cayenne pepper (optional)
1/4 cup mined green onions
Okay well you probably see where this is going its not hard to make you just put the stuff together but here is a step by step!
1. Sift though the chick peas they're also called garbanzo beans and pick out any that don't want to be humus. Then rinse them off and put them in a pot with water to cover them by an inch or two and put it on the stove and boil the water then, see, you turn off the heat and cover the pot and let it soak. That's about an hour and a half and what I am waiting on now while I type this
2. Drain them and rinse off the beans and put them back into the pot and add water again and boil it. Except this time you simmer instead of turning off the heat. Cover it and simmer it for another hour and a half or perhaps longer, you want the beans or peas or whatever they are to be soft and squishy. Oh and I like to use distilled water because tap water yuk but yours may be okay
3. Well now drain the chick peas and put them in a bowl and use a potato masher or a fork and you want to make a smooth paste. This can be a lot of work I am going to try and use an immersion blender this time to see if that makes it easier but don't quote me it might not work you just have to be patient
4. You'll want to turn the garlic into paste not chunky a good trick I use is to chop it small, then sprinkly the salt on it and use the edge side of a knife to grind it up against a cutting board. The salt will make grind into a paste and no it doesn't need to be a silver knife harry potter fans haha
5. So mix in the garlic and salt and a dash of tamari (which is like soy sauce except made from wheat) and the juice from two smallish lemons not the seeds! I guess one gigantic lemon would work too. Really its all to taste because you also add a tiny pinch of cayenne and lots of black pepper more than you would think really.
6. The tahini is ground up sesame seeds paste stored under oil that you can get at the grocery store for far more that it should cost. Put in 3/4 of a cup and perhaps some of the oil it is stored under as well, and mix in the green onions (which are scallions except not?) and parsley.
7. Mix it all up really well and adjust the taste so you like it more salt, some olive oil, etc etc remember you can add things but you can't take them out! So you may want to not add all the lemon juice until this step if thats a thing for you.
8. It goes in the fridge and gets chilly! Eat it with pita like I'm going to or vegetable sticks or whatever really.
Okay tell me if you like it or if you like humus or if you know for sure if its spelled humus or hummus the spell checker thinks both are okay!
Edit to add that this worked out great and I now have more hummus that a man probably should haha, the immersion blender is not a bad idea and works well to make it less chunky though its probably too thick to get a really smooth puree and I'm glad I waited to add the lemon til the end because I only needed one and a half!
