🇯🇴 Jordan
Hummus
Jordanian hummus leans rustic — thicker, garlickier, and often crowned with cumin-spiced ful.
🔪 Prep: 10 min🔥 Cook: 45 min📈 Difficulty: Easy
Cooking for
4 people
✨ What makes it special
Thick, garlicky, and often served as “hummus bil-ful” with warm fava beans on top.
Ingredients
- 250 gdried chickpeas, soaked overnight
- 120 gtahini
- 2 lemons, juiced
- 3 clovesgarlic
- 1 cupcooked fava beans
- ½ tspground cumin
- 1 tspsalt
- 3 tbspolive oil
Method
- 1
Cook the chickpeas until soft, reserving the broth.
- 2
Blend with tahini, lemon, garlic, and salt into a thick paste — Jordanians like it with body.
- 3
Warm the fava beans with cumin, a squeeze of lemon, and olive oil.
- 4
Spread the hummus, spoon the warm ful into the center, and drizzle with oil.
- 5
Serve with raw onion wedges and fresh bread, the Amman way.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 4