Hummous
Posted: April 5, 2009 Filed under: lunch, vegetarian | Tags: cheap, chickpeas, healthy, vegetables Leave a comment »
I love real hummous but hate that cardboard-like slop you so often get in the shops. It’s so easy to make the real thing and it literally costs pence. Unfortunately my magimix is on strike so I had to make this in the blender, which meant lots of pushing down and stirring but with velvety results. I love sun-dried tomatoes so threw in a few of those along with the tangy oil in the jar and needed to use up a glut of limes from Whitechapel Market, so added those to the mix. A touch of smoked paprika and lots of omega rich flax seed oil really pumped up the proverbial volume.
Ingredients:
1 tin of chickpeas, drained
6 sundried tomatoes plus the oil from the jar
1 garlic clove crushed
1 tsp sea salt
1 tbsp flax seed oil
the juice of 2 limes
a large pinch of paprika
a touch of cayenne pepper
Method:
Put all ingredients into a food processor or blender. (Blend).
Taste and adjust season adding more lime juice, salt or oil as necessary.
Eat with lots of raw crudites and wholemeal pitta bread.
