Рецепт Hummus with Olive Oil Chips
Hummus with Olive Oil Chips
Every Tuesday night some of my neighbors come over (mainly Jake and Sarah), Cory, my housemates, and I all crowd around the television and watch LOST. Now, I don't watch LOST. I never have, but now I probably will. Due to the fact that is it on every Tuesday night, and I always home, I began watching it (in its final season). And it's in my basic instinct whenever there is a large gathering of people, I feel like I must feed them. Now every Tuesday night - I feed them.
Two weeks ago I made the dinner "Middle Eastern/Greek" themed. I made my tried and true Spanakopita recipe, but I thought they might want something else - Hummus and chips. I'm always so shocked when people try homemade hummus for the first time (it's always so much better) and then when I told them how easy it is, they are even more shocked. I also felt that it would be appropriate to dip homemade chips in my homemade hummus. The chips were so easy to make and it made a pretty large batch - enough to feed my friends and co-workers when I brought them into The Environment Report the next day.
Hummus
Ingredients:
22 oz chickpeas, canned
1 cup tahini paste
Juice of 1 lemon
6-8 cloves of garlic, minced
Extra virgin olive oil, to serve
Trader Joe's Everyday Seasoning, to serve (optional)
Directions:
In a large bowl, add the tahini paste, water and lemon juice and mix well until it forms a uniform paste. Add the minced garlic to it and mix it well.
Now add the chickpea paste to the tahini sauce a little at a time, making sure everything gets incorporated evenly.
In a plate, spoon the hummus and create a canal with the back of the spoon to hold the olive oil, as seen in the photograph.
Sprinkle with sumac and serve with crackers.
Olive Oil Crackers
Ingredients:
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ cup water
- ¼ cup olive oil
- Freshly ground pepper (I used a mix of black, white and pink!)
- Sea salt to taste
- Coarse sea salt for garnish (I used pink Himalayan salt)
- More olive oil for brushing
Directions:
Preheat oven to 220C.
In a large bowl, or the bowl of a Kitchen Aid add the flour baking powder, water, olive oil, salt and pepper. Knead the dough for 5-6 minutes until it all comes together.
Make walnut sized balls and roll them out as thinly as you can into long, oval shapes.
Place the rolled out crackers on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and brush with olive oil.
Bake for 5-6 minutes, or until the crackers are golden brown in color (I had to bake mine for about 10 minutes - but that's because my oven is kinda finicky)
Serve with the hummus!