Turkish peas (chickpeas) appeared in our kitchen not so long ago, but it was immediately appreciated by all fans of healthy eating. He is especially loved in the Middle East, where a variety of salads, hot dishes and snacks are prepared from peas. Including hummus, the classic recipe of which you will learn in our article.

Classic chickpea hummus

Hummus "came" to us from the countries of the Middle East.

It is prepared on the basis of chickpeas with the addition of various spices and olive oil. Serve appetizer in pita bread, cake, in drink or in the form of paste.

This dish is especially popular among vegetarians, because it contains natural vegetable protein.

Ingredients:

  • a glass of chickpea;
  • three tablespoons of olive (vegetable) oil;
  • salt, pepper, dried thyme;
  • two bay leaves;
  • some lemon juice.

Cooking method:

  1. As you know, beans require a long cooking process, and in order not to waste precious time, it is better to soak the chickpeas at night, and then boil, adding half a tsp to the water. soda.
  2. Pour two tablespoons of oil and 50 ml of water into a deep saucepan. Then lay the prepared chickpeas with spices, lemon juice and grind everything with a blender.
  3. We transfer the finished hummus to the bowl, make a small depression, pour a spoonful of oil with seasonings and decorate with herbs.

Homemade Pea Option

You can cook hummus not only from chickpeas, but also from peas. The combination of beans and spices will reveal to you all the secrets of Jewish cuisine.

Ingredients:

  • a cup of peas;
  • two tablespoons of tahini paste (sesame oil);
  • two garlic cloves;
  • seasonings (coriander, red pepper, cumin);
  • salt.

Cooking method:

  1. Soak the peas, and then boil for 40 minutes. The liquid should not be drained, some are left.
  2. Pour spices and garlic to the peas, add salt, tahini to taste and beat with a blender. If the hummus turned out to be too thick, then we dilute it with water, which was left after cooking the beans.
  3. The finished dish is optionally served with herbs.

How to make beans?

From beans you can make a delicious pasta called hummus.

Its main secret is that the ingredients used in the recipe should be whipped into a light lush foam.

If the paste turns out to be too dense, then do not despair - just add boiled water, the main thing is not to overdo it so that the slurry does not come out.

Ingredients:

  • 280 g of white beans;
  • three tablespoons of olive oil;
  • seasonings (dried garlic, thyme, bay leaf, turmeric);
  • salt;
  • 60 g of sesame seeds.

Cooking method:

  1. To reduce the cooking time of beans from two hours to 50 minutes, soak the beans for the night, and when boiling add soda on the tip of the knife, which will soften the hard shell of the beans. After 20 minutes, throw bay leaves on the beans and add a little salt.
  2. Grind the seeds and mix with a spoon of olive oil.
  3. Combine the boiled beans with sesame paste, pour another spoonful of vegetable oil, add all the spices and beat everything with a blender.
  4. We transfer ready-made hummus to pialas.

Hummus with avocado

If you like classic hummus, then an avocado appetizer will definitely appeal to you, especially since such an exotic fruit is rich in vitamins and valuable substances. Hummus is nutritious and delicious, it can be served with bread and vegetables.

Ingredients:

  • two handfuls of chickpeas;
  • avocado;
  • two garlic cloves;
  • salt, a pinch of zira;
  • lemon.

Cooking method:

  1. Boiled chickpeas overnight, boil until tender, cool, drain the water into a bowl.
  2. We cut the avocado medium-sized, and fry the zira for a couple of minutes in a dry frying pan.
  3. Then remove the spice, pour in the oil and pass the finely chopped garlic.
  4. We combine all the ingredients, squeeze the juice from one lemon into them and beat in a blender.
  5. Hummus should have a creamy consistency, so if necessary, dilute it with water from under the cooking of beans.

Classical performance by Julia Vysotskaya

In one of her programs, Julia Vysotskaya said that the most delicious dish in Israel for her was hummus, which was served with crispy pita. Therefore, she could not help but learn all the secrets of his preparation, then to share with her viewers. We offer and we recipe from Julia Vysotskaya.

Ingredients:

  • 240 g dry chickpeas;
  • 80 g tahini paste;
  • a cup of vegetable stock;
  • lemon;
  • 70 ml of olive oil;
  • three mint leaves;
  • a pinch of red paprika and cumin;
  • salt.

For snacks, you can take dry chickpeas or ready-made beans in your own juice.

Cooking method:

  1. Pour the chickpeas into the bowl, pour the broth. If the beans were boiled, then instead of the vegetable broth, you can use the water that remains after cooking.
  2. We also add all the spices to the beans, lemon juice and tahini paste, whisk everything with a blender. The broth adjusts the consistency of the composition, which should resemble low-fat sour cream.
  3. We try hummus on salt, if everything is normal, transfer the paste to a beautiful bowl, take a spoon and begin to make circular movements from the center. Pour oil into the formed ruts, lightly sprinkle everything with paprika and cayenne pepper.

Pumpkin Recipe

From sun pumpkin and beans, you can cook a hearty and tasty hummus. At the same time, such a snack will be very useful, because such a combination of products will give the body protein, fiber and valuable vitamins.

Ingredients:

  • pumpkin weighing 1 kg;
  • two cups of chickpea;
  • six cloves of garlic;
  • lime juice;
  • two tsp Provence herbs;
  • pepper, salt;
  • a pinch of paprika for color;
  • some oil.

Cooking method:

  1. Cut the peeled pumpkin and seeds into pieces. We spread on the parchment along with garlic, the cloves of which need to be wrapped in foil.
  2. Pour the pumpkin with oil, pepper, add and bake for 40 minutes. Slices of the vegetable should be soft and browned.
  3. To the baked pumpkin we add the cooked (or canned) chickpeas, as well as oil, lemon juice, a little water and seasoning.
  4. Using a blender, grind the ingredients to a creamy consistency. We adjust the density of the paste with water or oil.

Beetroot Hummus

Today, hummus is popular not only in the East, but also around the world. While traveling, he was transformed and for his preparation, the culinary specialists began to use all new, unusual ingredients for a traditional snack. So there was a recipe for beet hummus, which is often served in Australia, America and Europe.

Ingredients:

  • 400 g of beets;
  • four tablespoons of tahini;
  • two garlic cloves;
  • a spoonful of lime juice;
  • a spoonful of oil;
  • 1 tsp zirs;
  • two spoons of crackers for breading;
  • salt.

If you could not find the tahini paste, then you can take sesame seeds, dry them in a pan and grind in a coffee grinder.

Cooking method:

  1. We wrap each root vegetable in foil and bake in the oven for an hour. Then we clean the beets and cut into arbitrary pieces.
  2. In a blender bowl, put slices of beets, garlic, spices and tahini (or sesame flour). We grind the composition and for the density we use breadcrumbs. If the hummus has the desired consistency, then breading is not necessary.

We store the finished snack in the refrigerator and serve it with pita bread, bread rolls or chips.

Cooking with Lentils

If you are not a fan of chickpeas, but you really want to try hummus, then you can use other legumes, for example, lentils.

For snacks, you can take lentils of any color, but from dark varieties of hummus it turns out much nicer.

Ingredients:

  • 90 g of red lentils;
  • two tsp sesame seeds;
  • spoon of lime juice (lemon);
  • clove of garlic;
  • a pinch of chili pepper, black pepper and oregano;
  • oil.

Cooking method:

  1. Boil red lentils for half an hour, then pour the water into a separate bowl.
  2. Mix sesame seeds with olive oil and grind to a paste consistency.
  3. Pour citrus juice, spices, chopped garlic and a little oil into the lentils. Beat the composition, add lentil fat if necessary.
  4. We transfer the finished hummus to the bowl, sprinkle with oil and decorate with parsley leaves.

One of the main ingredients of the appetizer is pasta thini (tahini), which gives the hummus a nutty flavor. But if you could not find sesame paste, then just take the sesame seeds, dry them in a pan and grind with olive oil until the consistency of thick sour cream.

Otherwise, cooking hummus should not cause any problems at all. Try it and you will succeed!

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