Recipe: Perfect Hummus with Olives

Alfred Strickland
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Recipe: Perfect Hummus with Olives Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Hummus with Olives. Olives, basil, and parsley add new flavors to homemade hummus. The flavors of this kalamata olive hummus recipe really compliment each other, making a delicious variation of traditional Middle Eastern hummus. Hummus is a dip/spread that is made from chickpeas.

Not all olive hummus recipes are created equal.

Hummus can be made with black olives or green olives.

You can even make a kalamata olive hummus with dark purple Greek olives.

You can cook Hummus with Olives using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Hummus with Olives

  1. Prepare of chickpea/gram flour.

  2. It’s of water.

  3. You need of kosher salt.

  4. It’s of small black ripe olives.

  5. It’s of extra Virgin olive oil.

  6. It’s of tahini Paste see my recipe.

  7. It’s of lemon juice.

  8. Prepare of chopped black ripe olives for topping.

  9. You need of ground black pepper.

  10. Prepare of granulated garlic powder.

Most of these recipes will have similar ingredients.

They might, though, have different ratios of olive oil or garlic.

Place garbanzo beans, lemon juice, olive oil, ½ cup Kalamata olives, crushed garlic, tahini, cumin, and red cayenne pepper in your Vitamix or food processor, and blend until smooth.

Finely chop ¼ cup kalamata olives.

Hummus with Olives step by step

  1. Bring the water to boil add the chickpea flour and whisk. When it is incorporated turn the heat to low and stir constantly till thickened..

  2. Add to the oil, Lemon juice, and tahini Paste. Add the garlic, salt, and pepper. Mix well..

  3. Add to the blender and blend till its thickened and creamy. Then add the dozen olives and blend well..

  4. Pour the hummus into a dish. Chop the olives and add on top. Chill 30 minutes covered in the refrigerator..

  5. Serve I hope you enjoy. I served with my homemade crackers..

Combine hummus and chopped olives in a bowl and stir to combine.

Except this simple olive hummus recipe really doesn't taste plain at all.

It's … sort of like hummus amped up with a little tapenade.

For homemade hummus that is creamy, flavorful and quick to make, start with a can of GOYA® Low Sodium Chick Peas!

Our premium, nutty-tasting chickpeas cook up perfectly tender in the can and are lower in sodium than the original.