Recipe: Tasty Almond Hummous

Traditionally hummous is made with chickpeas. In raw food cuisine it's made with sprouted chickpeas - or at least it is by those who like it! For those that don't (and I sometimes do, sometimes don't...) then here's a great alternative.

By swapping the chickpeas for almonds and adding in a few fresh herbs, here's a recipe that you'll find delicious, will fill you up, will be good in a salad, wrap or spread on crackers and will keep in the fridge for about 5 days if covered.

Chunky almond hummous

Ingredients:

• 2 cups soaked almonds
• ½ cup tahini
• 1 large garlic clove, minced
• 2 large lemons, juice of
• ¼ to ½ teaspoons Celtic sea salt (to taste)
• 1 Tbsp fresh chopped parsley
• 1 teaspoon basil

Directions:

1. Break down the almonds using your homogenising juicer with the blank plate, or, even better a high-powered food processor such as the Cuisinart. If you have neither, with sufficient time and patience you could use a hand blender, but take care with it as this is hard work.
2. Put the broken down almonds into a food processor along with all the other ingredients. Try to achieve a smooth consistency. Add a little water if necessary.
3. Process until you have it the way you like it. Some people like chunky bits of nut to remain, while others like it smooth - or you could take half out while chunky and process the rest to smoothness - they actually do taste a little different!
4. Serve with green vegetables, such as lettuce, cabbage, and kale, or spread on flax crackers. Also good, of course, as a dip.

Comments

[Krista]

Super delicious on my zucchini flax crackers -- YUM! Although I feel like I've gained a pound or two between the avacado in the Nori Rolls, this almond hummus recipe, my zuccini flax crackers made with walnuts and the chocolate ice cream made with cashews! Back to more fruit today!

[Rafael]

Yum! Thanks for this great recipe. :)

A word of caution: If you make this recipe in a Vita-Mix blender use at least 1/2 cup of water and the high-speed setting (I just found out the hard way as my Vita-Mix shut off and started smoking as a result of overheating).

From Karen: Oh yes, absolutely. The nuts can make the mixture pretty dry. Any recipe that is dry should ideally go in a food processor, or, like you say, have water added.