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Searching for the perfect hummus recipe

July22

For some time now, I’ve been look­ing for a fab­u­lous recipe for hum­mus. I’ve found a few that are fine. I found one that was decent. I also found one that was not good at all. I just haven’t found one that is great, though.

I really like the hum­mus from the store. It’s so expen­sive though for such a lit­tle con­tainer. I should be able to make my own for a frac­tion of the price, right? Well, I can make my own, but it’s missing…something. Mine seems to have a bland taste and not be rich and deep like the fla­vor of the store bought hummus.

My recipes are all pretty sim­i­lar. They all con­tain chickpeas/garbanzo beans, olive oil, lemon juice, tahini, gar­lic, and salt. I just vary the pro­por­tions of each ingre­di­ent, but I just can’t get it right! Heather! Do you have any gourmet magic? Any­one else? Even sit­ting here, I’m get­ting a crav­ing now for some really good hum­mus. Too bad the stuff I made on Sun­day is just okay.

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5 Comments to

“Searching for the perfect hummus recipe”

  1. On July 22nd, 2008 at 4:37 pm Heather Says:

    My MIL has a won­der­ful hum­mus recipe — let me see if I can find it. I’ll post it and let ya know!

  2. On July 23rd, 2008 at 6:42 am Sharon Morken Says:

    I never knew you had a web­site, but I’m glad I found it! If any­one should have a blog about breastfeeding…it’s you! =)

  3. On July 23rd, 2008 at 3:05 pm Audrey Lewis Says:

    I found your web­site through your Face­book profile! =)

    If you find the per­fect hum­mus recipe please share it. I need to find one, too. I *love* that stuff.

  4. On June 20th, 2009 at 6:43 pm Machia Melenciuchi Says:

    I was hop­ing by click­ing on this, Heather would have found and posted it by now.
    Whaaaaaaaaaaaah­h­h­h­h­h­h­h­h­h­hhh :(

  5. On June 20th, 2009 at 7:00 pm Machia Melenciuchi Says:

    Sorry for­got to post mine.
    Made it last week­end for bridal shower.
    Found out at last minute it was a bring a dish type thing and I had the ingre­di­ents to make this. I kept test­ing it on my daugh­ter the hum­mus freak of the uni­verse. She kept say­ing it’s awful, it needs some­thing but didn’t know what. That’s why I added the odd ingre­di­ents that I did.
    Long story short, many at the shower asked for the recipe. So, for you, here it is.….…..

    I’ll call it.…..

    “not your aver­age hummus”

    2 can gar beans, drain
    1 TB lemon juice
    1 heap­ing tsp crushed gar­lic
    3 TB olive oil
    1/2–3/4 tsp salt
    1/4 tsp paprika
    1 tsp toasted sesame oil
    sev­eral good grinds black pep­per
    *4 small blocks of feta cheese
    3 arti­choke hearts from [mar­i­nated in oil] jar
    3 kalam­ota olives
    3 high qual­ity green olives
    1/2 tsp cumin
    Run all through the food proces­sor until smooth and creamy.
    Use good qual­ity things as the dippers.

    *I had a small jar of mar­i­nat­ing feta cheese cubes in sea­soned olive oil.
    The cubes aren’t even an inch in size, more the size of a dice.