Recipe: Perfect Hummus topped with meat and pine nuts

Recipe: Perfect Hummus topped with meat and pine nuts Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Hummus topped with meat and pine nuts. Hummus with Lamb and Pine Nuts is the combination of traditional, creamy hummus topped with hushwee - a ground meat and pine nut mixture. Hushwee is traditionally made with ground lamb or sirloin and is seasoned with my Lebanese All-Purpose Spice Blend made with cinnamon and ground allspice. This recipe is the classic Lebanese way of serving meat with hummus.

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Pine nuts are the edible seeds of pines although not all species of pine produce them in large enough quant.

Hummus bil lahmeh is a traditional Middle Eastern hummus dish topped with warmly spiced meat, toasted pine nuts, and pomegranate seeds.

You can cook Hummus topped with meat and pine nuts using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Hummus topped with meat and pine nuts

1. It’s of canned chickpeas.

2. You need of tahini, sesame paste.

3. It’s of garlic, crushed.

4. It’s of lemon juice.

5. Prepare of salt.

6. It’s of The topping:.

7. Prepare of beef, cut in tiny cubes.

8. You need of raw pine nuts.

9. It’s of vegetable oil.

10. It’s of black pepper.

11. It’s of pinch of cinnamon.

12. Prepare of pinch of salt.

This celebratory dish is a part of the Middle Eastern Mezze and is usually served on special occasions.

Spoon the meat and pine nuts onto the hummus, drizzle with the olive oil and dust with paprika.

Related Video Pour the mixture into a large bowl and add stir in the parsley or cilantro and the chopped toasted pine nuts.

Garnish with any remaining parsley or cilantro.

Hummus topped with meat and pine nuts step by step

1. Drain the chickpeas and blend them in a food processor until you get a smooth paste..

2. In a big bowl, dilute the tahini paste with 1 tablespoon of warm water. Add the crushed garlic, lemon juice and salt. Mix well until you get a whitish liquid sauce..

3. Add the chickpeas paste to the sauce and mix well. Adjust lemon juice and salt according to taste. Transfer the hummus to a serving dish..

4. For the topping: heat the oil in a small pan over medium heat. Fry the pine nuts until they turn golden in color. Remove and drain on a kitchen absorbent paper..

5. In the same pan, fry the beef cubes for 10 min or until they are well done. Sprinkle with black pepper, cinnamon and salt. Remove from heat..

6. Top the hummus with the fried meat at the center of the dish and sprinkle with fried pine nuts. Serve with pita bread..

Cover and refrigerate about an hour before serving with pita, nann or chips.

The beef is seasoned with seven spices and mixed with toasted pine nuts.

I cook the pine nuts in a little bit of oil for a few minutes.

An alternative to this is dry toasting the pine nuts.

This dish makes a wonderful appetizer during Ramadan for iftar or any other time of the year as well.