Hummus
Cooking time1 hour
Prep time10 minutes
Servings6 portions
Ingredients
INGREDIENTS
- 300 gr. chickpeas
- 1 garlic clove
- 80 gr. tahini
- 1 lemon
- 50 ml. Altis Chania Crete Olive Oil
- 1¼ teaspoons cumin
- Freshly ground pepper
- Sea salt
For serving
- 1 tablespoon pine seeds
- 1 tablespoon fresh coriander, minced
- 20 ml. Altis Chania Crete Olive Oil
Instructions
EXECUTION
- We soak the chickpeas overnight in plenty of water.
- The following day, we boil the chickpeas in plenty of water until they become soft. We drain them and keep one cup of their boiled water.
- In the blender, we add the chickpeas, tahini, garlic, olive oil and lemon juice.
- We mash them for a few minutes, and add the cumin, and pepper; we taste it and add salt accordingly. If the hummus is too thick,
- we add some of the chickpeas’ boiled water or plain water.
- We serve the hummus garnished with the pine seeds, olive oil and fresh coriander.
- We may garnish the hummus with pomegranate seeds
- We can also use wholegrain tahini
