Baked Houmous

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I eat houmous quite often as it’s a dish I enjoy. Before looking in the Turkish cookbook for recipes I had no idea it can be baked. I was a little reluctant as I thought the houmous will be dry, but it wasn’t. I loved this dish and it’s surely something that I will cook again and again.

For this recipe I’ve used boiled chickpeas. If you have dry chickpeas, use the technique presented in my Houmous recipe to boil them quicker.

01 Bake yogurt Houmous

Ingredients for 4 servings of baked houmous as a starter:

– 600g boiled chickpeas
– a few spoons of oil
– juice of 2 lemons
– 3 garlic cloves
– 3 spoons of tahini paste
– 60g full fat yogurt
– 40g pine nuts
– 20g butter
– salt, black pepper, paprika, cumin

Preheat the oven at 200C or 180C fan. Put the chickpeas in a food processor. Add the oil, lemon juice, garlic and cumin and blitz. Add the tahini paste and the yogurt and mix until the houmous is light and very smooth. If the houmous is not smooth enough add a few spoons of water. Transfer the houmous in a heatproof dish and smooth the top with a spoon.

In a pan dry roast the pine nuts over medium heat until they become golden brown. Lower the heat and add the butter. When the butter has melted completely, add the paprika and stir. Pour the pine nuts over the houmous. Bake the houmous for 25 minutes until it has risen slightly and the butter was absorbed.

02 Houmous with yogurt that is baked

Serve hot from the oven with pitta bread. I like pairing houmous with olives.

03 Baked yougurt Houmous

18 thoughts on “Baked Houmous

  1. I’ve never heard of baked hummus before. I love hummus too, but don’t know if I could be bothered baking it when it’s so quick to whizz up. Learned something new today though.

  2. WOW I never knew you could bake Houmous, have to try that now. Houmous is one of my food weakness’. Always have a tub in my fridge!

  3. Oh wow this sounds amazing and it looks delicious, I am going to have to give it a try!

  4. That looks amazing! My kids have just decided that they like chickpeas which I am so happy about. Definitely one I’ll try.

  5. oooooh how good does this look? I too have not heard of baked hummus before, but I am pining this to try one day x

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