🇪🇬 Egypt
Hummus
In Egypt, hummus often meets the street: warmed, spiced with cumin, and served looser as a dip for everything.
🔪 Prep: 10 min🔥 Cook: 40 min📈 Difficulty: Easy
Cooking for
4 people
✨ What makes it special
Cumin-forward and served warm; in winter it becomes “hummus el-sham,” a spiced drinkable chickpea broth.
Ingredients
- 250 gdried chickpeas, soaked overnight
- 100 gtahini
- 1½ lemons, juiced
- 2 clovesgarlic
- 1 tspground cumin
- 1 tspsalt
- 2 tbspolive oil
Method
- 1
Simmer the chickpeas until very soft.
- 2
Blend warm with tahini, lemon, garlic, cumin, and salt, keeping it slightly loose.
- 3
Adjust with broth until it just holds its shape on a spoon.
- 4
Serve warm, dusted with extra cumin and a thread of olive oil.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 4