Restaurant Style Hummus Recipes

EZ RESTAURANT-STYLE HUMMUS

Steps:

• Place garbanzo beans, 1 1/2 tablespoon reserved aquafaba, and lemon juice in a food processor. Let soak until flavors combine, about 15 minutes.
• Pulse soaked garbanzo beans until roughly chopped. Add tahini, olive oil, garlic, cayenne, sugar, salt, and black pepper; blend, thinning with reserved aquafaba, until hummus is smooth and reaches desired consistency.

COOK'S ILLUSTRATED RESTAURANT-STYLE HUMMUS

Steps:

• 1 Combine lemon juice and water in a small bowl or measuring cup. 2 Whisk together tahini and 2 tablespoons oil in second small bowl or measuring cup. 3 Set aside 2 tablespoons chickpeas for garnish. 4 Process remaining chickpeas, garlic, salt, cumin, and cayenne in food processor until almost fully ground, about 15 seconds. 5 With machine running, add lemon juice-water mixture in steady stream through feed tube. 6 Scrape down bowl and continue to process for 1 minute. 7 With machine running, add oil-tahini mixture in steady stream through feed tube and continue to process until hummus is smooth and creamy (about 15 seconds, scraping down bowl as needed). 8 Transfer hummus to serving bowl and sprinkle with reserved chickpeas and cilantro over surface. 9 Cover with plastic wrap and let stand until flavors meld, at least 30 minutes. 10 Drizzle with olive oil and serve.

ZAHAV'S HUMMUS 'TEHINA'

Steps:

• In a bowl, cover chickpeas by at least 2 inches of cold water. Add 1 teaspoon baking soda and let soak at room temperature overnight. Drain and rinse.
• In a medium pot, cover soaked chickpeas by at least 4 inches of water. Add the remaining teaspoon baking soda and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to medium high and let cook at a vigorous simmer until chickpeas are quite soft, 1 to 1 1/2 hours. (Overcooked chickpeas are the secret to creamy hummus, so don't worry if they start to break down a little.) Drain.
• While chickpeas are cooking, make the tahini sauce. In a blender, combine the lemon juice, garlic and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Let mixture sit 10 minutes. Add tahini, remaining 1 1/2 teaspoons salt and the cumin, and blend until a thick paste forms. Add 1/3 to 2/3 cup ice water while blender is running, a little at a time, until sauce is smooth. You're looking for a perfectly smooth, creamy sauce.
• Add the warm, drained chickpeas to blender with tahini mixture. Blend until perfectly smooth and not at all grainy, stopping to scrape down sides of bowl occasionally. This blending may take upward of about 2 minutes; just keep going until the mixture is ultracreamy and fluffy, adding a little water if you need it to make the contents of the blender move. Taste for seasonings, adding more salt, lemon juice and/or cumin as needed.
• To serve, spread the hummus on a plate, dust with paprika, drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with parsley.

RESTAURANT STYLE HUMMUS

Steps:

• Combine lemon juice and water in small bowl. Whisk together tahini and olive oil in second small bowl or measuring cup. In blender, add chickpeas until almost completely ground. Add garlic, salt, cumin and cayenne, scrapping down every 15 seconds. With plender running, add lemonwater mixture in a even stream through the top of the blender. Scrape down and blend for 1 minute. Drizzle into the running blender the tahini and oil mixture. Continue to process until smooth. Transfer hummus to serving bowl, sprinkle with cilantro, cover and let stand at least 30 minutes to let the flavors meld. If it thickens, stir in some water.