Beetroot hummus
 
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Cuisine: Mediterranean Diet
Serves: 6 People
Ingredients
  • 1 Organic cooked beetroot (if you’re using vac-packed cooked beetroot it shouldn’t be in vinegar), chopped into small dices.
  • 500g (2 ½ cup) Chickpeas, cooked (reserve part of the cooking liquid and a few whole chickpeas)
  • 2 Garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
  • ½ Teaspoon sea salt
  • ⅓ Teaspoon cumin
  • 3 Tablespoons tahini (sesame seed paste)
  • The juice of 2 medium lemons
  • 3 Tablespoon extra virgin olive oil for the garnish
Instructions
  1. If you are using dried chickpeas, to cook them: soak the dried chickpeas in warm water for 12 hours with ⅓ teaspoon of baking soda (ideally leave them soaked overnight). Rinse them well and drain. Bring water to a boil in a cooking pot and when the water is boiling add the chickpeas and leave them cooking over low heat for 2 hours until tender. Remove them from the heat, drain and leave them to cool. Reserve the cooking water. If you have forgotten to soak them overnight or you do not have the time to cook them as explained, you could use a jar of organic chickpeas in water (but make sure to rinse them well and drain); the result will be pretty much the same.
  2. Mash the cooked chickpeas in a food processor adding approximately 50ml (3 tablespoons) of the cooking liquid.
  3. Mix the peeled and crushed garlic cloves, the salt and the cumin in a mortar and pestle until you get a paste. Add the tahini and the lemon juice.
  4. Add this paste to the mashed chickpeas mixture. Then mix in the cooked beetroot dices and continue mixing it all well to a creamy puree.
  5. Spoon the hummus into a serving bowl and, with the help of the back of a spoon, sculpt a well around the centre of the hummus. Add the few whole chickpeas that we had reserved, drizzle with olive oil so that it runs into the well.
Notes
If you use raw beetroots, to cook them steam them for about 20 minutes until you are able to pierce them easily with a fork. When peeling them, a good way to avoid the stains in your hands is to previously rub your hands with a few drops of olive oil.
Recipe by Tasty Mediterraneo at https://www.tastymediterraneo.com/beetroot-hummus/