Alkaline Recipe #2 Hummous from Heaven

I cannot claim as much kudos for this recipe as I found it on Healthy Pages. It was created (in some part) by Giles (energylz)’s other half! Giles also happens to run this Reiki site. Thats the good thing about Healthy Pages, lots of the members are also webmasters of a whole host of interesting health and wellbeing sites!

Anyway, on with the recipe:

1 can of chick peas (or home cooked chick peas)
1 tablespoon of Tahini paste (light or medium cos dark is too heavy IMO)
Small clove of garlic (crushed or finely chopped)
Lemonjuice from 1/2 Lemon (or to taste)
1 tablespoon olive oil

Put all ingredients in a bowl and blend with one of those nice fast whizzy hand blender thingies.

Season with Salt and Pepper to taste

Variations:
Add handful of black olives before blending
or
Change chick peas for butter beans
or
Adding fresh tomatoes before blending

Would be interesting to hear if anyone else has other Hummous variations!

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{ 5 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Mark January 31, 2006 at 8:41 am: I have found that it is just as nice without the tahini but with more olive oil and lemon. Nice recipe though.
2 Sarah February 21, 2006 at 1:07 am: tried this last night and it was great! never going to buy it from the shops again.
3 Cora Sanders July 30, 2007 at 7:28 pm: I like to double the garlic and add a handful of fresh parsley leaves before blending. mmmmm What do you serve it with to maintain alkalinity?
4 Ross July 31, 2007 at 2:20 am Twitter: Hey Cora

I usually have this with chopped up veggies like raw carrots, celery, cucumber etc.

It’s nice to serve with salad and sprouted breads too.

Double garlic eh? Might give that a go!

Have a great day
Ross
5 Luma August 22, 2008 at 3:36 pm: This is a great recipe! but i thought that beans were acidic as well as tahini and olive oil, so how is this alkaline?