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Hoummous Dip

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Hoummous or hummus is a dip made from mashed chickpeas and blended with tahini, garlic, lemon juice and olive oil.

This Middle Eastern Dip known as hummus or hoummous, has passed to the Cypriot cuisine as hoummoi.

It is made of chickpeas, tahini, garlic, lemon and olive oil and is one of the many mezedes they will serve you going to any taverna in Cyprus.   Eating mezedes in Cyprus is like a ritual and they keep bringing plates after plates, after plates, after plates.

This dip is perfect with hot pita bread, koulouri or lagana to dip in.

Hoummous

Preparation time: 5 minutes

Cooking time:  90 minutes

Yield: 2 cups

Ingredients:

1 cup boiled chickpeas (reserve half a cup of water)

1 clove garlic

¼ cup olive oil

½ cup tahini

3 tablespoons lemon juice

Salt and freshly grated black pepper

Paprika or sumac

Parsley

Directions:

Soak the chickpeas in water from the previous night.  Drain and peel them.  (It is preferable to buy skinned chickpeas).

Boil the chickpeas in unsalted water, skim the liquid water and drain once. Add fresh water and boil again. Add salt, lower heat, cover with lid and simmer until soft.

Place all the ingredients in the blender except the sumac and parsley. Add a few tablespoons of water and whiz until the chickpeas have become a puree.  Taste and adjust ingredients.

Drizzle with some olive oil on top, finely chopped parsley and some paprika or sumac.

Serve with warm pita bread.

Kopiaste and Kali Orexi,

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About Ivy Liacopoulou

Ivy Liacopoulou grew up in Limassol, Cyprus, a beautiful island in the eastern Mediterranean, where her passion for cooking began as a child, helping her mother in the kitchen. Ivy belongs to a new generation of home cooks who loves to experiment and create new recipes of her own. She is the author of two cookbooks and she owns and manages Cooking Classes, in Nafplio, Peloponnese.

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  2. Peter G

    Hummus…always delicious and I always vary the amounts I put in each time depending how I feel. Great to dip your lagana in! Hummus soup sounds very intriguing Ivy.

  4. Lore

    I looks sooo creamy, yum-o! I’d love to turn this into a soup, that’s a brilliant idea 😀

  5. Cakelaw

    Lovely dip Ivy – I have never made hummus (or any other dip, for that matter), but love to eat it with flat bread pieces.

  6. JennDZ_The LeftoverQueen

    “If you ever go to Cyprus you will be amazed by the variety of mezedes they will serve you. They start bringing plates after plates, after plates, as starters.”….

    Ivy, this sounds like my kind of meal!

    I love making hummus too, my recipe is very similar to yours in fact! 🙂

  8. Lisa

    Hummus is one of my very favorite treats. I like to try different variations, but there is nothing like a classic hummus, like you have made here.

  11. Maria

    Ivy I love Hummus and I love the different varieties out there now, one of them being the red peppper! Yours looks so yummy.

    Maria
    x

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