This healthy hummus recipe is ultimately a classic, creamy, dreamy yet somehow light and fluffy meal. The perfectly smooth swirled, and soften hummus, begging to be scooped up onto a wedge of pita bread or with some veggies.
Let’s learn to make this healthy homemade hummus in a minute with this easy, 7-ingredients recipe! It comes together in well, smooth and creamy style. It’s a complete family meal to enjoy at a time.
Hummus Recipe Variation
This healthy hummus recipe is quite an easy mixture of homemade ingredients! It’s a plain, yet delicious recipe, but
want to make more variation, so blend with some of my favorite variations including:
Roasted Garlic Hummus: simply mix the fresh garlic in a favor of a few cloves of rich, sweet, roasted garlic.
Pesto Hummus: use store-bought or homemade, plus maybe an extra garnish of toasted pine nuts.
Green Goddess Hummus: mix and blend almost ¾ cup loosely packed fresh, leafy herbs.
Roasted Red Pepper Hummus: blend ¾ cup roasted red pepper, almonds, and smoked paprika to get a romesco-style dip or simply drained and cut slices into strips.
Sun-Dried Tomato Hummus: use sun-dried tomatoes, rinsed and drained.
Green Hummus: blend fresh parsley, cilantro/basil, or spinach to get greenly hummus.
Sweet & Smoky Hummus: Add ½ baked sweet potato, maple syrup, a big pinch of chili powder, or some water as required. Now blend all ingredients along with the other hummus ingredient.
Toasted Sesame Hummus: Add and blend ½ tsp sesame in hummus, plus 1 tsp sesame drizzled on top.
Healthy Hummus Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cup Garbanzo/Chickpeas (cooked, drained, liquid reserved)
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- ¼ cup Lemon Juice
- 2 Garlic Cloves (chopped)
- 2 tbsp Tahini
- Salt (as required)
- Black Pepper (to taste)
- 2 tbsp Olive Oil (extra virgin)
- ½ tsp Ground Cumin
- 2 tbsp Water or Liquid (from the chickpeas)
- Hot Sauce
Topping(optional)
- Extra Drizzle of Olive Oil
- Fresh Parsley (chopped)
- Ground Sumac/Paprika (sprinkle)
- Toasted Pine Nuts
- Pepper Flakes
- Sesame Seeds/Seeded Spice (blend as dukkah)
Serving
- Warm Pita Bread
- Veggies Wraps
- Club Sandwich
- Greek Salad
- Chickpea Shawarma
Instructions
- In a medium-size saucepan, add chickpeas, baking soda, and water. Make sure to cover chickpeas by several inches of the water layer, to let it bring the mixture over high heat.
- Let the mixture boil until all chickpeas get softened. Reduce the heat in between the process if needed. When chickpeas get boil perfectly like bloated, and the skins start falling off then remove the pan from heat. Strain and drain the chickpeas, separate the water and beans and let them cool down completely. Now run cool water over them for about 1minutes or 2. Set them aside.
- Now take a food processor, add lemon juice, garlic, salt, tahini, water, olive oil, cumin, black pepper, and hot sauce. Make a perfect puree until smooth
- Add cool chickpeas in a food processor with other mixture and blend time to time until the mixture starts looking creamy, smooth, and pale.
- Use more ice water if necessary to get perfect mixture puree.
- Transfer the mixture to a medium serving bowl. Add some salt, lemon juice and cumin according to your taste and desire. (Optional)
- Garnish with some above mention ingredients to your choice to enhance its taste and flavor.
- Serve with some warm pita bread or veggies. (Optional)
Notes
- Feel free to use can chickpeas, if you don’t have boiled ones.
- Just make sure to overcook chickpeas a bit to get softer and peeled off skin to blend easily.