Holla' Back Hummous

This recipe goes along with the Mediterranean Crepe, Falafel, Tzatziki, and Curry grilled Peppers recipe to make the
Happy Holidaze Dinner.

Bored=Blue

Broke=Red

Healthy=Green

For ALL recipes=White

You will need...

-one can of garbanzo beans
-a lemon
- 3/4 pepper, any color 
- 3 tbsp olive oil
-1/4 cup tahini
-1/4 of a grilled onion
- 1/4 cup of salsa

a lil' bit a
- curry powder
- ground or fresh ginger
- gahram masala
- salt
- garlic
- pepper
- worcestershire sauce

Appliances
- food processor, magic bullet, or that blender you made margaritas in last night

STEPS

This first step is only for the BORED recipe (but it's the most delicious!)


Put a pan on HIGH HEAT and coat the bottom lightly with olive oil. When the pan starts to sizzle, throw on your sliced peppers and onions and cover for about 2 minutes.


After two minutes, open the pan and turn peppers and onions then cook for another two minutes, until there is a black sear on both sides of the pepper and onions.


Set aside and begin with Garbanzo Beans.

FOR BORED: If you want super smooth hummus, shell your garbanzo beans (take off the little clear shells from the bean and chuck em'!) before putting them in the food processor. 

Drain Garbanzo Beans but reserve a fourth of the can's liquid. Pour beans into food processor. Add tahini, olive oil, garlic, lemon,  curry powder, salt, and pepper (add to taste/do whatever TASTES GOOD). 


The consistency should be fairly smooth but still a little grainy and wet. 
Chop up your sautéed inions and peppers into small pieces. I don't know exactly how small, use your own brain and figure it out for yourself. Add the onions, peppers and worcestershire sauce to the ground chickpea mixture. Too broke for veggies? Throw in 1/4 cup of salsa instead. 

If the consistency is TOO WET: Add more tahini with veggies or garbanzo beans.
If the consistency is TOO DRY: Add more olive oil, lemon juice, or garbanzo juice. 

Put in the fridge when done because it's most delicious cold. Serve with tortilla chips, toasted tortillas, baby carrots, Wonderbread or the Mediterranean crepe recipe I still need to write if you are TOO BROKE.

So, Holla’ Back Hommous is already SUPER healthy. But if you are a mountain girl like me living with a midwestern girl whose idea of healthy is deep-frying mushrooms in bread crumbs, then there a few things that we can do to make this recipe as healthy as possible. But seriously, only a few because this is a fucking HEALTHY recipe. First, add more veggies and lemon juice and garlic and less oil and tahini if you really want to be nit-picky and cut down. But the difference will be minimal so decide if you actually give a shit.  

Also, this is a pretty BROKE recipe. Buy a dollar can of garbanzo beans, a lemon, a jar of tahini that will last you like FOUR months. Seriously. All in all, this is at most, a six-dollar recipe but people, it’s delicious, it lasts, and it will make you super popular with your beer-slinging friends. So really, what you lose in money, you gain ten-fold in drunk. The picture shows how much hummus following this recipe once makes, and that's even after we ate a bunch of it. 

                                                                         Inspiration.