Houmous with Peanut Butter – a great alternative to traditional houmous and for those times when you don’t have any tahini paste
Houmous, there seem to be an infinite number of ways of spelling it (hummus, hommus etc) and many more ways of preparing it! This Houmous with Peanut Butter came about after I stumbled across an article in the Huffington Post a while ago about using peanut butter instead of tahini in houmous.
It was an idea that struck a chord with me immediately as firstly I’m a hug fan of peanut butter (took me until adulthood to find this out) and secondly I’m all for being frugal. I remember an unloved jar of tahini paste in my cupboard that got used once or twice and then just languished there forgotten until it was too late!
That’s the thing with specialist ingredients, you buy to make one dish and then you’re left wondering what to do with the rest of the jar. So to be able to make houmous with peanut butter instead (which is always in our cupboard) makes perfect sense!
Why not get you kids making this houmous during the summer holidays, I’ll bet a lot of them don’t even realise houmous is made with chickpeas!
I remember as a child loving fig rolls and hadn’t a clue what a fig actually was – when I finally found out I went off them completely bizarrely! The same thing happened with Ox tongue that we used to have sliced from the deli counter, a family friend boiled a whole ox tongue for tea one day and that was enough to put me off for life! I don’t think you get tongue any more so a whole generation of kids have been spared!
That said I’m sure no children will be put off houmous because it’s made with chickpeas!
We enjoyed our Houmous with Peanut Butter with some wholemeal pittas or you could use it as a dip for crudité or crisps!
I’m entering a few events with this houmous:
Credit Crunch Munch which I run with Helen of Fuss Free Flavours and hosted this month by Sarah at Maison Cupcake. Recipe of the Week over at A Mummy Too and Tasty Tuesdays over at Honest Mum.
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Houmous with Peanut Butter
Ingredients
- 1 x 400g Tinned Chickpeas
- 2 ½ tblsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 2 Garlic cloves crushed
- 1 heaped dsp Peanut Butter
- 4 tbsp Water
- Salt
- Garnish:
- Drizzle of extra virgin olive oil
- Shake of cayenne pepper or smoked paprika
Instructions
- Put all the ingredients in a blender (I used my mini herb chopper) and whizz until smooth.
- Check the seasoning and adjust if necessary.
- Place in a bowl and drizzle with olive oil and dust with cayenne pepper or smoked paprika.
- Serve with pittas.
Jeanne Horak-Druiff
What a good idea to use PB instead of tahini! I need to try this and see how the flavour turns out!
Camilla
Thanks, it’s a bit different but if you like peanut butter!
Heather Haigh
I’m must admit I’m not overly fond of tahini, though I love sesame seeds, so I do like the sound of this.
Becca @ Amuse Your Bouche
This looks lovely! I agree about ingredients like tahini, it’s always a chore to use them up! Love making use of things I already have in the cupboards 🙂
Camilla
Exactly, I hate waste:-)
Fuss Free Helen
I adore hummus in all its guises, and it really is rather good for you too as long as you do not add too much oil.
Camilla
Yes, just a drizzle in this recipe:-)
bev
There’s not much that peanut butter can’t improve!
Laura@howtocookgoodfood
Love this idea Camilla, I have taught humus to my pupils and they are always horrified when they realise hummus is made from chickpeas. They all love it though! Peanut butter sounds like a great idea to replace tahini.
Camilla
Thanks Laura:-)
Sarah James
What a great idea to use peanut butter in houmous it sounds delicious. I didn’t try peanut butter until I was an adult either & I love using it in cooking.
Camilla
The thing that put me off as a kid was Sunpat which would turn my stomach just looking at it – probably still would!
Paul Wilson
Never thought of hummus with peanut butter.
Gingey Bites
What a fab idea! I will definitely try this. I also totally agree with you, I love peanut butter but didn’t discover it until recently! Got to be crunchy though!
Camilla
Yes crunchy is my favourite too:-)
Elizabeth
Sounds lovely! I’m a big fan of hummus (:D) but I’ve been making it for years and years without tahini for that very same reason you describe. However, I recently decided I’d give tahini a go again and would you believe I used up the entire jar? I’d bought it to try an arabic cake (it was lovely) and the rest was used up in hummus! I will give your variation a go for sure though. 🙂
Camilla
Thanks Elizabeth:) Your arabic cake sounds fascinating, it’s good to get ingredients used up.)
Paul Wilson
Arabic cakes do sound nice.