This is the best recipe I've found on this site!!! I am orginally Syrian, so we are always making traditional hummus and when I decided to make this, my family was really skeptical. Everything changed when they tasted it and my mom single-handedly ate almost the whole recipe!!
(this tastes more flavorful if you double the amount of the spices)
I made this hummus with black beans at first and it turned out good. However, when I substituted black beans with garbanzo beans - it turned out even better! You will need to use more liquid with garbanzo beans, though.
Very good hummus, but very different from the classic garbanzo bean variety. My brother and I took this on our cross-country trip and ate some every day for 5 days straight and didn't get tired of it!
The key to getting that hummus taste out of the black bean is the tahini. If you don't use tahini, you may as well just have some refried beans from your local Mexican restaurant.
This is also an easy recipe to vary with other ingredients. Just remember that if you're going to add different spices, use fresh ones! There is no substitute!
Wonderful! Just as easy to make as standard hummus and probably even tastier. The liquid from canned beans gives me digestion difficulties so I rinsed the beans and added olive oil and water instead. I recommend a little oil to help pull the flavors together. Lovely with hot pita bread or cold vegetable sticks.
I substituted peanut butter (yes, you read that right) for the tahini, because that's what I had in my cupboard, and it was so good my 5 children ate it all up in one afternoon. The texture was good, the flavor was excellent. The PB is not discernible, and for me, going to the effort of driving an hour to purchase tahini defeats the whole purpose of making such a delicious dish with most ingredients available at all times in my refrigerator and pantry. We toasted tortilla triangles and cut pitas into wedges and broiled them crips. DELISH. Thank you!!
WOW!! This is great and SO simple! For an extra kick substitute 1 tablespoon of the lemon juice with lime juice. Fabulous!
Very easy and healthy recipe. A nice way to enjoy black beans.
I eat this almost every day, but I do make the following changes:
3 cloves fresh garlic.
3 TBSP lemon juice.
1 tsp cumin (maybe a dash more).
Reduce black bean liquid to 1 TBSP.
Reduce tahini to 1 TBSP.
HOT PEPPER FLAKES, and a lot of them! I do about a teaspoon!
Put garlic cloves in the food processor (I have a Ninja) and mince them first. Add everything else in and blend to desired consistency.
I eat this primarily with bagel chips. I also eat too much of this to bother with the olives and the paprika.
I have noticed good improvement in my cholesterol levels and I attribute it to this hummus! It's my "go-to snack."
This is very good. Has a bit of a kick probably due to the paprika and the cayenne. I am making pita bread to go with it and it's not done so I just tested it with a spoon. It will be wonderful with pita. It is a bit like a black bean dip but a little different. I made my own tahini for this and I can't taste it that much. All the better; I am not a big fan of tahini. I'm a little puzzled by the complaints that it isn't pretty. It's not beautiful I agree but if you garnish it correctly it looks fun and the purple color isn't bad. I've certainly made food that looks a lot less appetizing! Thanks for the recipe!
Didn't care for this at all maybe I'm not a hummus person but it was so bland! It is far easier to whip up the onion soup mix/sour cream dip and just use fat free sour cream to be healthier.
