How to Up Your Homemade Hummus Game
Words Rebecca UlanoffStore-bought hummus can be great, but with homemade hummus you get total control over flavor, consistency, volume, well – everything. Like lemon? Load it in. Gaga over garlic? Get on it. Not crazy about chickpeas? Mix things up with black beans, edamame, or even lentils.
Even better, DIY hummus is easy to whip up, cheap to make, packed with protein, vegan AND gluten-free. Plus, tahini (aka sesame paste) lasts a really, ridiculously long time in your fridge, so, once you buy it, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to experiment.
We enlisted our brand-new One Stop Chop Manual Food Processor to up our hummus game. See below for our basic recipe, plus a couple of variations. Don’t have a manual food processor? Use an electric one or even a blender.
#Basic Hummus
Ingredients
1 can of chickpeas (drained, with liquid reserved)
2 garlic cloves
3 tablespoons tahini
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1⁄3 cup olive oil
3 tablespoons water (or use the liquid reserved from can of chickpeas)
Instructions
- Combine garlic, drained chickpeas and olive oil in the Manual Food Processor.
- Turn handle until combined (the texture will still be rough).
- Add tahini and lemon juice. Turn handle until smooth.
- Add water (or liquid reserved from chickpea can) and turn handle until desired thickness is reached.
Red Pepper Hummus
Ingredients
1 can of chickpeas (drained, with liquid reserved)
2 garlic cloves
3 tablespoons tahini
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1⁄3 cup olive oil
3 tablespoons water (or use the liquid reserved from can of chickpeas)
1/3 cup roasted red peppers
Instructions
- Combine garlic, drained chickpeas and olive oil in the Manual Food Processor.
- Turn handle until combined (the texture will still be rough).
- Add tahini and lemon juice. Turn handle until smooth.
- Add water (or the liquid reserved from can of chickpeas) and turn handle until desired thickness is reached.
- Add roasted red peppers and turn handle until incorporated into the hummus.
Black Bean and Feta Hummus
Ingredients
1 can of black beans, rinsed
2 garlic cloves
3 tablespoons tahini
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/3 cup olive oil
3 or more tablespoons water
Crumbled feta to taste
Instructions
- Combine garlic, drained and rinsed black beans and olive oil in the Manual Food Processor.
- Turn handle until combined (the texture will still be rough).
- Add tahini and lemon juice. Turn handle until smooth.
- Add water and turn handle until desired thickness is reached.
- Add crumbled feta and turn handle until incorporated into the hummus
Rebecca Ulanoff is part of OXO’s Brand Communications Team. She enjoys talking about her next meal while eating her current one. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and four-year-old daughter.
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3 Comments
In both recipes for humus, liquid is reserved from chickpeas. But doesn’t say if liquid is to be combined at some other time. Also in instructions it says to add olive oil but none is listed under the ingredients in either recipe. Was the omission of both chick pea liquid & olive oil a mistake or should we just wing it?
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