Today we will take a virtual leap into the Middle East and let ourselves be fascinated by their particular cuisine. The star food of today is hummus: it is a thick sauce made with chickpeas or broad beans and tahini (a cream prepared with sesame seeds). Normally, hummus is accompanied by unleavened bread or pita (the classic Arabic bread) and is tasted as an appetizer accompanied by raw vegetables. A sort of revisited pinzimonio. Let's get to work!
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Identity Card of the Recipe
- 182 KCal Calories per serving
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Ingrediants
For the hummus
- 150 g of chickpeas
- 1 sprig of parsley
- 1 clove of garlic
- q.s. of salt
- 1 pinch of red pepper
- About 30-50 ml of water
- 3 tablespoons (30 ml) of extra virgin olive oil
- untreated lemon juice
- 10 g (1 tablespoon) of tahini
To serve
- a few mint leaves
- 1 sprinkle of sweet paprika
- 2 pieces of pita or unleavened bread
Materials Needed
- Bowl for soaking chickpeas
- Casserole for cooking chickpeas
- Chopper
- Cooking pan
- Wooden spoon
- Gravy boat or bowl for serving
Preparation
Please note
To prepare the hummus it is necessary to soak the dried chickpeas at least 20-24 hours before. To speed up the time, you can use canned chickpeas, ready to be flavored.- Drain the chickpeas from the soaking water and rinse them in fresh running water to remove all anti-nutritional elements.
- Dip the chickpeas in lightly salted boiling water and cook for about an hour and a half, until tender.
- Drain the chickpeas from the water and season them in a pan with a little extra virgin olive oil, a clove of garlic and a little chilli pepper. If necessary, add more salt.
- Remove the garlic clove from the chickpeas.
- Transfer the flavored chickpeas to a food processor, add the tahini, lemon juice and parsley.
What is tahini?
It is a typical sauce of Asian cuisine, prepared by blending toasted sesame seeds with a little grapeseed oil (or sesame seed oil) with a pinch of salt.- If the hummus is too thick, add a little of the cooking water from the chickpeas: in this way, the sauce will take on a more velvety and less compact consistency.
- Serve the hummus (chickpea cream) with a sprinkling of sweet paprika, a few mint leaves and unleavened bread (or pita!).
Alice's comment - PersonalCooker
If every now and then you feel like trying ethnic foods that are a little different from those you are used to eating, hummus will certainly be for you. A good legume sauce, nutritionally rich, source of vitamins (vitamin E), fiber and minerals. Definitely to try!Nutritional values and Health Comment on the recipe
NB. The nutritional values include the little accompanying bread mentioned in Alice's recipe.
Homemade Hummus - Chickpea and Sesame Cream - is a thick accompanying sauce to be used in combination with pita or unleavened bread, but is also appreciated alongside other oriental dishes. Homemade Hummus is rich in fat (although of good quality), it contains a good portion of complex carbohydrates and some proteins of medium biological value. The energy intake is NOT very high but not negligible. The average portion of Homemade Hummus - Chickpea and Sesame Cream with a little bread is about 150g in total (270kcal).
