Today for lunch, we’ll be teaching you to make A Lot of Really Bad Hummus. Best served with Expired Pocket Bread
Hypochondriacs, this recipe is for you.
Are you a hipster that loves making and storing your own food but you’re scared of dying from botulism so you haven’t graduated to canning yet? You will love this recipe that makes a huge amount of hummus that doesn’t actually taste good, because you can keep it in your freezer for months and feel obligated to eat it because you made it with your own two hands. I also enjoy it because I can keep pocket breads in the lab mini-fridge until they get soggy and expire so I can gamble with my digestive health; it’s thrilling and grad school has turned me into an adrenaline junkie with a wish for food poisoning so I don’t have to go to school.
-1.5 cups dried chickpeas
-Tahini I didn’t measure this, because the bulk bins at the local grocery store were pouring tahini really slow and I got frustrated. Tahini is also expensive, so this is a choose your own adventure ingredient
-A buttload of olive oil, but not so much that your hummus tastes like olive oil. This is a delicate balance
-3 Lemons Seriously, 3
-At least 4 tablespoons cumin
-Salt and pepper, to taste
First, you need to get the chickpeas from their dried state into a consistency that you can consume without breaking all your teeth or your food processor. You can of course used canned chickpeas, but cans have BPAs in their liners and you’re probably paranoid about dying young from cancer caused by that.
1. Soak chickpeas overnight
If you don’t do this, your farts will smell like hummus for days after you eat this. This might be a more appealing smell than your usual fart but it will get old really fast.
2. The next morning (or actually three days later when you’ve gotten around to it), drain the chickpeas.
3. Boil 6 cups of water and add beans.
4. Simmer three hours. This is another step where if you don’t complete it correctly you will get the hummus farts
Now, onto the hummus making
1. Drain the chickpeas, add them to the food processor your parents bought you because they are worried about your health and wanted to fix that with an expensive gift
2. Add the tahini. All of it. More tahini will make your hummus taste better, never worse
3. Add olive oil. Remember that olive oil tastes bad in large amounts so BE CAREFUL
4. Squeeze all the lemons in there. You will need these because you probably put too much olive oil in during Step 3.
5. Add cumin, this will also counteract any olive oil disasters or lemon disasters if you made one of those too
6. Pour in some salt, you probably want a lot of this too because salt tastes good and high blood pressure is a fun ailment that will last forever
7. Add water until you think the hummus will be the right consistency, you will probably make it too runny so it’s like a soup instead of a dip.
8. Combine using the highest power setting on your food processor
9. Portion into old hummus containers from hummus you stupidly bought from the store before you discovered you could make worse-tasting hummus on your own with more effort and equal amounts of money.
10. Freeze until you're ready to eat. I have been unfreezing one container per week for the last month and forcing myself to eat this every day like I’m training for a competitive bad-hummus eating event.