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.
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.
Serve hot from the oven with pitta bread. I like pairing houmous with olives.
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.
I’ve never tried humous. Looks pretty interesting! x
My partner would love this! I will have to try making it one day
I never knew you could bake houmous. Will have to give this a try one day
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!
I never knew it was so easy to make hummus! Bet it tastes much better home made.
Baked hummus! Well who would have thought! I have to try this!
I like houmous but never heard of it being baked before. Sounds really nice x
Oh wow this sounds amazing and it looks delicious, I am going to have to give it a try!
This looks so yummy I love hummus with falafel even thought hey are both made from chickpeas mmm x
This sounds and looks yummy. Never heard of a recipe like this until now..
That looks amazing! My kids have just decided that they like chickpeas which I am so happy about. Definitely one I’ll try.
Oh wow I absolutely love houmous, so this recipe is right up my street, thanks for sharing x
oh now this sounds lovely and not something I have ever thought of making myself thank you for the idea
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
I thought I knew everything about houmous, but I never knew it could be baked. I have to try this.
Baked Houmous ! wow looks delicious – must try it thank you
Yum never heard of baked houmous before but sounds lovely and looks amazing!