Homemade Roasted Garlic Hummus – Recipe – How to – Tips

It took me a few tries to finally get it right (to my liking), totally worth it though.

@RainbowPlantLife says to take the time to dial in the ingredients to make it your own; and that was what I needed to hear to finally pull it all together for me. Thank you to Nisha for that advice in your hummus recipe video!

For roasted garlic; I used 2 whole bulbs/cloves? whole garlic things with the root/top cut off across the whole thing and then drizzled with olive oil, sprinkled with salt and pepper and baked in the oven wrapped in foil for about 2 hours. Let cool a little; the softened garlic will pop right out of the papers.

Ingredients
1 can organic chick peas (garbanzo beans)
1/2 cup tahini (adjust to your taste)
1.5 large lemons worth of lemon juice (adjust to your taste)
a good glug of olive oil
salt, pepper, cumin to taste (adjust to your taste)
left over water from the warming of the chick peas to reach your desired thickness or consistency

Drain the water from the canned chick peas and dump out onto a plate or papertowel. Using another paper towel; press lightly across the tops and roll to start to separate the skins or the chick peas.

Drop into water and stir vigorously; and the skins should start to separate and easily skim with a slotted spoon. Get as many as you can; easily. If some make it through; it won’t be a big deal just get a lot of them. Don’t waste too much time here.

Bring the chick peas to a boil and then drop into your blender (without the water)

Add the tahini, olive oil, squeezed lemon juice, spices and way more garlic than you think you’ll need and then adjust all as you see fit. It’s your hummus, right? I used my leftover water from boiling the chick peas to then thin out the consistency.

It’s said that using cold water during that process makes it more smooth and creamy, I’ll need to play around with that some more but didn’t find it to be a deal breaker.

To garnish I just used sun dried tomato olive oil (which I adore) and parsley.

Could go a lot of different ways here; a variety of diced olives or other roasted veggies to top or compounded oils/fragrances, etc. Again, it’s your hummus, knock yourself out.

KT