Best Basic Houmous (Thermomix)
A delicious quick and easy houmous recipe made with chickpeas and toasted sesame seeds or tahini paste.
Ingredients
If you don't have the Cookidoo app for your Thermomix, follow the recipe below:
- 2 garlic cloves
- 480g tinned chickpeas rinsed, drained (2 x 400 g tins)
- 60g water
- 30g lemon juice
- 70g extra virgin olive oil plus extra for serving
- 40g toasted sesame seeds or tahini sesame paste
- 0.5 tsp fine sea salt
Instructions
- Place the garlic, chickpeas, water, lemon juice, oil, sesame seeds and salt in the mixing bowl then start Blend/1 minute.
- Transfer to a serving bowl, drizzle with oil and sprinkle with paprika. Serve cold or at room temperature.
Notes
- I tend to halve the recipe as the full recipe is quite a large portion.
- Instead of toasted sesame seeds, I’ve been using the same quantity of tahini sesame paste instead.
- We've enjoyed the houmous with a bowl of fresh salad and toasted multi seeded flatbreads from Asda along with our:
- Enjoy houmous as part of a meze platter with pitta bread, flatbread, breadsticks, crisps, and sticks of carrot and cucumber...yum!