Recipe: Delicious Chickpeas puree and tahini - hummus bi tahini

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Chickpeas puree and tahini - hummus bi tahini. Great recipe for Chickpeas puree and tahini - hummus bi tahini. The most famous Lebanese appetizer of all times! It consists of pureed chickpeas blended with tahini - sesame paste -, garlic and lemon juice.

Tahini is a paste, much like peanut butter, only it's made from toasted sesame seeds.

It goes back a long way too.

In fact it's been made in the Middle East for centuries.

You can cook Chickpeas puree and tahini - hummus bi tahini using 5 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chickpeas puree and tahini - hummus bi tahini

1. It’s 2 cups of canned chickpeas.

2. It’s 5 tablespoons of tahini, sesame paste.

3. It’s 3 cloves of garlic, crushed.

4. It’s 4 tablespoons of lemon juice.

5. It’s 1 teaspoon of salt.

A jar of unopened tahini will last in a cool dark place for a good long time.

Hummus bi Tahini (Chickpea Hummus with Tahini).

Adjust flavour and consistency with lemon juice or cooking liquid and add salt if necessary.

Spread in a shallow serving dish, swirling it with back of a spoon.

Chickpeas puree and tahini - hummus bi tahini instructions

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 to taste..

4. Serve in a shallow dish with a drizzle of olive oil and pita bread..

5. Garnish with mint leaves, a sprinkle of cumin or some whole chickpeas..

An adaptation of the famous Middle Eastern favorite called hummus bi tahini.

This is a more convenient and quick, yet equally tasty, garlicky, pureed vegetarian dip served as an hors d'oeuvres eaten with pocket bread or diced tomatoes.

This American adaptation seems to work well by making it with a food processor and substituting peanut butter for the traditional sesame seed paste.

Place the chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice, garlic and salt into a food processor or blender and process until very smooth.

Add water as needed to achieve a soft, spreadable consistency.