From Super Bowl parties to afternoon snacks, catered luncheons to last-minute dinner guests, creamy homemade hummus is the workhorse of the dip family. Best of all? It’s super easy to learn how to make hummus at home. Our hummus recipe requires just 5 simple ingredients, and is ready in minutes — it truly is one of the easiest homemade appetizers we know. Try using it in our ultra-filling Hummus Bowl. Or, if you want even more delicious mediterranean dips in your life, try our simple Muhammara recipe, or creamy, goes-with-everything Tahini Sauce.
Why You’ll LOVE This Hummus Recipe
- This hummus is super creamy, not grainy (like many store bought versions)
- Once you get the idea of how to make hummus, you can really play around and mix up the flavor profile, as we do with our pretty Beet Hummus.
- Hummus is a crowd-pleaser, because it’s naturally vegan, gluten-free, sugar free, and dairy-free.
- It can be made completely from scratch in just a few minutes.
Key Ingredients
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- Canned chickpeas: Also known as garbanzo beans, chickpeas are delicious, filling, and protein-packed. We always have a few cans in the pantry because we also love to use them to make Braised Chickpeas, which is the fastest dinner we know of.
- Tahini: Tahini is basically a nut butter — well, seed butter, really. It’s just very, very finely ground sesame seeds and it adds lots of richness and nutty flavor to the hummus. It can be expensive, but there are pretty affordable tahinis out there, too. If there is a Middle Eastern market near you, it may be fun (and wallet-friendly) to seek out tahini there.
- Extra-virgin olive oil: The flavor of the extra virgin olive oil really shines in hummus, so don’t sub in regular olive oil.
- Lemon: You’ll use both the zest and the juice, to make your hummus really zingy and zesty.
- Garlic: Two cloves of fresh garlic (feel free to add more if you love garlic) give the hummus a little kick without making it spicy at all. Yum.
How To Make Hummus in 3 Steps
- Dump all of the ingredients into a high powered blender.
- Blend for five minutes. Five minutes may feel like a long time, but trust us! This is the secret to really creamy, smooth hummus.
- That’s it!
Tips For The BEST Hummus
- Use a high powered blender to make the hummus truly creamy.
- Don’t have a high-powered blender? A traditional food processor will work, but to ensure maximum creaminess, remove the chickpea skins first, which can easily be done with a quick soak in water and an extra five minutes of hands-on time. (This would be a perfect job for the kiddos to help with, as it’s oddly satisfying to pop those skins off!)
- Another trick for really creamy hummus is to use the liquid from the canned chickpeas. If you’re using dried chickpeas, just use the cooking liquid.
- Salt content of canned chickpeas varies brand to brand. For this reason, we like to add salt to the hummus a little at a time, tasting as we go.
What To Serve With Hummus
- Raw veggies! Carrots, snap peas and tomatoes are popular choices, but there’s no need to stick to convention. Perfect Roasted Broccoli or Cauliflower, raw, thinly sliced beets and jicama, and flash-fried zucchini are fun and unexpected ways to go.
- Pita. Toasted pita is a lovely choice, as are your favorite crunchy chips.
- Make it a feast! You can get creative here, but we like to serve hummus with classic, bold Mediterranean dishes, like Meatballs with Tzatziki, Beef Kofta Kebabs, Grilled Chicken Shawarma Kebabs, crumbled feta, large olives and Falafel.
How To Store
Hummus keeps so well! That’s yet another reason to make it yourself at home — homemade hummus will last for a week in your fridge. One secret to making your homemade hummus really last is not to double-dip. Particularly if you make a big batch with the intention of eating off it throughout the week, don’t eat directly from the container. Instead, serve up just as much as you plan to eat and keep the rest of the batch in the fridge. We know that everyone loves to freeze things, but sadly, hummus doesn’t freeze well.
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