Making Your Own Hummus

Ingredients to make hummus

Here is the recipe I use to make our own hummus. My wife loves to take this for her lunch. If you pair it with some Naan Bread, you have yourself a delicious meal.


What you need:

• 1/3 Cup of Tahini (follow this link for the easy recipe)
• 1 Can of Black beans
• 1 Can of Garbanzo beans
• 1/4 Cup Lemon juice
• 1/2 tsp. Salt (add more if desired)
• 1/2 tsp. Paprika
• 1/4 Cup Olive oil
• 1 TB Lipton's onion soup mix (Optional)(Follow the link to get the recipe)
• 1/4 Cup Parmesan cheese (Optional)
• Food Processor (note: if you do not have one, you can use a blender instead. Although, it will be a little more difficult making sure all the ingredients get blended smoothly)

Tahini Recipe



Ingredients for tahini

While there are a variety of uses for tahini, I usually just use it as a base in my hummus recipe. While you can spend $6.50 or more to get 16 ounces of if from the store, you can make your own and customize it to your taste. The recipe that follows is a basic tahini recipe and you can add other flavors to get the taste you desire. for just a fraction of the cost. As with my Lipton Onion Soup Mix recipe, I used items I got from the bulk bin at our grocery store (Winco). The cost of one pound of sesame seeds at Winco was $3.83. For this price,  you get a massive amount, since sesame seeds weight next to nothing. You can easily make this recipe 3 or more times. In addition, if you make your own hamburger buns, the sesame seeds make a great topper to them. Well, enough talk.


What you need:

• 4 Cups: Sesame seeds (toasted)
• 1/4 - 1/2 Cup: Olive oil