here in pohnpei there is no hummus, but there is pita chips. (thats like makeing a tooth paste without any tooth brushes... so dumb!) buttt they have chick peas! so i found some excellent recepies, all of which contain completely different ingredients where most of them cant be found on the island (what the heck is tahini anyways?) so what did i do? i got all the ingredients i could from the 4 different recipes i found, and combined them!
we dont have canned garbonzo beanse, so i had to actually soake them over night.
we have a blender that only works half the time. so i am mixing and tasting and trying to help it along with a spoon. the thing keeps jamming, so i keep helping it along with a spoon. i cant tell you how many times the blade hit the spoon, but a little extra iorn never hurt anyone right? (say that to all the tetanus victims) this isnt a super funny story i realized, but imagine a flustered un-wellequiped danny bouncin round a kitchen squirtin lemon juice in his eyes, and trying to un jamm it. if your brave you should give it a shot, it honestly was fun, and i think is something we're gonna try doing, and it cost me like3 bucks to make (the bagged garbonzo beans were like a buck 50 or somethin)
i call it jank humus. its delicious though for real. 30 oz of chickpeas, 1/2 cup of cucumbers (mhhm i dont know why either) paprika (about 3-4 shakes, add to taste) 1 teaspoon of salt, 2 teaspoons of ground cumin(add to taste), and 3-100 cloves of garlic (never have enough garlic) and 2 table spoons of vegetable oil (olive oil is like 10 bucks here! no way jose!) 2 lemons, and a splash of olive juice from a can we had (the recipe called for pickle juice, but i didnt have any!)
erin stevie, chris, jordan, seriously guys, give this a shot, i dont think you'll be disapointed. if i can do it without any idea, so can you
Holy moly, you are quite the chef! Soaking chickpeas overnight, substituting ingredients, forgoing others altogether...To those who say tahini is an essential ingredient in making hummus, you may have just proven them wrong. And pssssst: I've actually chipped the tip of a wooden spoon on the blade of a blender before, so good call on using metal.
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