Syrian Homos : the soft ground chickpeas

Homos chickpeas

Hello everyone to day i bring for you a nice recipe especially for chickpeas lovers , actually i am not really sure if this recipe is syrian or Lebanese because i saw both of them eating it , and that's give me a desire to try it and i made it for the first time it's easy and delecious ,it is an appetizer for breakfast and dinner , It is characterized by its delicious taste and its lightness on the stomach in addition to the important nutrients found in it, such as proteins, calories and fats, which give the person who consumes it many benefits.

so let's see how we can do it , just before begin , we make it using Tahina which is a mixture of sesame and oil so we will see how to prepare tahina too .

and for the quantity i used just a little quantity to try if i will like it or not .

time of preparation :
cooking chikpeas : 45 min
preparation of tahina : 7 min
mixing : 10 min
total : almost 1 hour

ingredients :

- 1 and half cup of chickpeas .

- 1 cup of sesame .

- 1/4 cup of oil .

- 1 tsp of baking soda .

- 1 tsp of salt .

- 1 and half tbs of lemon juice .

- cumin for décoration .

- olive oil for décoration .

How to prepare :

it's so easy first of all we bring our quantity of chickpeas we make it in water for at least 6 hours

then we change the water and we make it in a pot to cook it and a medium heat .

homos chickpeas

in the meantime we will prepare the tahina , we bring the sesame to toast it we use the white sesame and we put it in a frying pan in low to medium heat and we stir using a wood spoon .

Sesame

until getting a little bit darker colour and you see that the seeds of sesame are separated in this step we remove it from heat .

Sesame

we put our roasted sesame in a coffee grinder to ground it .

Sesame

until getting this powder of sesame

Ground sesame

and we add oil i used among 5 spoon of oil until getting this texture semi - liquid

now after among 45 minutes of cooking when our chickpeas is ready and it ripe when you touch it is so soft we filter it out from water we keep just the pieces of chickpeas

homos chickpeas

we add 5 or 6 spoon of the water in which the chickpeas are boiled and we mix it using a hand mixer

homos chickpeas

until getting this nice soft texture

in this step we add a spoon of Tahina that we prepared before and lemon juice and salt and we start mixing again

now we put it in a serving dish and we put olive oil

i decorated it just using a spoon because its texture is easy to control

homos chickpeas

and in this step we can add cumin for more taste

Homos chickpeas

i don't know if i made it well but for me i really loved it and i will do it again and again it's delecious and it doesn't take me so much time i wish that you try it too especially chickpeas lovers like me i love its taste and because it have a lot of benefits for our health and full of proteines .

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