Home made hummus - naturally gluten free, vegan

It's been a while since I made this hummus recipe. I recently decided it was time to do it again. Home made hummus, made from scratch, meaning from dry chickpeas not from the canned ones.

So the night before I put 500 grams of chickpeas to soak in cold water. I removed the weird looking ones, those who were brownish or even black. When you do this part, make sure you use a big enough bowl or pot because it will double in size.

The next day I rinsed the chickpeas and put them to boil in water with a bit of baking soda. In about 30'-45' they should be soft and ready to be transformed into yummy hummus.

The recipe I used as inspiration is this one. It's in Romanian but you still get the idea.

Although Jamila recommends to peal off the skins from the chickpeas I didn't do this. Maybe if it was a smaller quantity, I would have...It's still very good.

It's very easy to do this. After you boil and drain the chickpeas (save some of the water for later), you simply use a hand blender to mix and blend all the ingredients. Add some of the water you saved until you get the desired texture, it should be not too dry and neither not too liquid.

The ingredients list is a suggestion, I always add or remove stuff according to my taste and inspiration.

Ingredients

500 gr dry chickpeas
7-10 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
8 garlic cloves
4 tbsp tahini paste
1-2 tsp rock salt
1/4-1/2 tsp baking soda
the juice of 1-2 lemons, depending on their size and your taste
olive oil/sweet paprika/fresh parsley for decoration

This quantity lasted for me and @dragosroua for two-three days. You can of course make a smaller portion for your use, but I prefer to make a bigger batch of everything and then freeze it if it's too much or just eat it two days in a row.

Bon appétit!

Namaste

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