Updated Again: Good Creamy Hummus Recipe

Hummus has become one of my favorite snacks and wrap-components over the past year or so. But despite my attempts to find other brands the red-plastic-top-$4-for-10oz Sabra brand is still my favorite. However keeping up that habit is getting too expensive. So after a while of searching and tinkering I have this recipe that I have been making (updated with no olives too make a more "classic"style):

2 15 oz can of organic chickpeas
2/3 cup tahini
Juice from 2 lemons
1 Tbsp olive oil
2 Tbsp Red Pepper Flakes (Optional, if you want spicy red pepper hummas)
~1/2 cup of water
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1 tsp coarse salt


Rinse chickpeas and remove skins. You don't need to remove them all, but the more you remove the creamier it will be.

Add tahini and lemon juice and food processor. Blend in a food processor for about two minutes, until foamy.

Add garlic, salt, anything else you want to add (red pepper flakes), and keep blending.

While still blending add a chickpeas through the top a few at a time. After adding half the chickpeas, add the olive oil. Add water a little at a time as you add chickpeas to keep the hummus the right amount of thickness. This is your preference but if you add too much water (probably ~3/4 cup) it can separate later.

Let the food processor go for about 5 minutes until it is nice a creamy.

Enjoy.


Add in any flavors you want. I add a little hot sauce some times to give it an extra kick. You can add things like roasted red pepper, extra garlic. Whatever you favorite hummus toppings are. This recipe will make a lot. Fill-up-the-food-processor a lot. This recipe is a modified and doubled version of another recipe.You can half it if you want.

This will cut the cost of your hummus addiction, the only expensive and harder-to-find item is the tahini. But you can order a bunch from Amazon.com for about half what it is in stores. If you decide you don't want to make it on your own but still don't want to pay Sabra prices, check out Trader Joes. Their "smooth and creamy" hummus is a really good knock off of Sabra for $1 a tub less.