🇸🇾 Syria
Hummus
Damascus serves hummus with a lighter tahini touch and a signature topping of browned pine nuts in butter.
🔪 Prep: 15 min🔥 Cook: 45 min📈 Difficulty: Easy
Cooking for
4 people
✨ What makes it special
Topped with pine nuts toasted in ghee; often served alongside fattet hummus for breakfast.
Ingredients
- 250 gdried chickpeas, soaked overnight
- 100 gtahini
- 1½ lemons, juiced
- 1 clovegarlic
- 1 tspsalt
- 2 tbspghee
- 30 gpine nuts
Method
- 1
Boil the chickpeas until soft enough to crush between two fingers.
- 2
Blend with tahini, lemon, garlic, and salt, loosening with cooking broth to a spoonable cream.
- 3
Toast the pine nuts slowly in ghee until deep gold.
- 4
Plate the hummus and pour the hot ghee and pine nuts over the top.
- 5
Serve with fresh Shami bread.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 4