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  16     <h1>Hummus</h1>
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  19 <dt>
  20 <a href="#sec1">Ingredients</a>
  21 </dt>
  22 <dt>
  23 <a href="#sec2">Directions</a>
  24 </dt>
  25 <dd>
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  27 <dt>
  28 <a href="#sec3">Preparing the Beans</a>
  29 </dt>
  30 <dt>
  31 <a href="#sec4">Tomatoes</a>
  32 </dt>
  33 <dt>
  34 <a href="#sec5">And Now for the Actual Hummus</a>
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  38 <dt>
  39 <a href="#sec6">Notes</a>
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  46 Ingredients</h2>
  47
  48 <ul>
  49 <li>1 cup dried chick peas</li>
  50 <li>1/4 cup liquid from chick peas</li>
  51 <li>6 cloves of <a href="Roasted%20Garlic.html">Roasted Garlic</a></li>
  52 <li>2 sun dried tomatoes (dry; not stored in oil)</li>
  53 <li>2 tsp smoked paprika</li>
  54 <li>5 tbsp lemon juice (fresh if possible)</li>
  55 <li>2 tbsp olive oil (middle eastern if possible; the cultivars taste
  56 different!)</li>
  57 <li>4 tbsp tahini</li>
  58 <li>1/2 tsp kosher salt</li>
  59 </ul>
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  63 Directions</h2>
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  66 Preparing the Beans</h3>
  67
  68 <p class="first">Just soak a cup of dried beans at least overnight in a couple of cups
  69 of water. Drain them and throw them into a pot with a dash of salt and
  70 enough water to just more than cover them (an extra half an inch or so
  71 seems to be good). Bring everything to a boil uncovered, and then cut
  72 the heat back to simmer for about an hour or an hour and a half (when
  73 the skins split easily they have a good texture).</p>
  74
  75 <p>When you drain them save the liquid and use that when blending the
  76 hummus.</p>
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  78
  79 <h3><a name="sec4" id="sec4"></a>
  80 Tomatoes</h3>
  81
  82 <p class="first">Boil the sun dried tomatoes in one cup of water with a dash of salt
  83 for ten minutes, drain, and cut into a few pieces to make it blend
  84 more easily. It adds an interesting flavor if you use a bit of the
  85 leftover water instead of chickpea water (I just do a 50/50 split
  86 usually).</p>
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  88
  89 <h3><a name="sec5" id="sec5"></a>
  90 And Now for the Actual Hummus</h3>
  91
  92 <ol>
  93 <li>Prepare the beans (or be lame and use canned beans)</li>
  94 <li>Throw everything together in a blender or food processor and blend
  95 until it is smooth</li>
  96 <li>Put whatever frilly garnish to make it look better on it if you must</li>
  97 <li>Take to a gathering of some sort</li>
  98 <li>Goodbye hummus</li>
  99 </ol>
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 104 Notes</h2>
 105
 106 <p class="first">One time I decided to make hummus for folks and alas! I forgot to soak
 107 beans the night before. My strange friend came to the rescue with the
 108 equivalent amount of home prepared white beans and it was a good
 109 substitute (slightly different flavor, but the spices here really
 110 dominate). I used the water from boiling the dried tomatoes as there
 111 was no fresh chickpea water on hand and it was delightful.</p>
 112
 113 <p>I just use a blender to mix everything (use what you have eh). There's
 114 no real need to use a fancy food processor if you don't have one;
 115 anyone who thinks the texture is better from that is dumb and probably
 116 just sucks at cooking the beans or is a pretentious jerk. Obviously if
 117 you have a food processor you may as well use it because it's a bit
 118 less annoying I'm told.</p>
 119
 120 <p>When using a blender you have to use a spoon to mix it manually
 121 occasionally whenever an air pocket forms over the blades. At least in
 122 my blender getting everything into the initial paste requires blending
 123 for a second, mixing the solid beans into the bean paste below it, and
 124 repeating until it is all paste. Then I just blend it on a fairly low
 125 speed stopping and popping air pockets whenever they form until
 126 everything is consistent, and then throwing the blender up to full
 127 throttle for a little bit to blend out the chunks.</p>
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