AUTHENTIC HUMMUS RECIPE
A TOP SUPERFOOD FOR LOWERING CHOLESTEROL
GARBANZO BEAN aka CHICKPEA DIP
(Keywords: AUTHENTIC HUMMUS RECIPE, Bernard Preston, Chiropractic, best hummus recipe, calories in hummus, easy hummus recipe, eggplant hummus, healthy hummus recipe) Yup, four minutes is all it takes to make Hummus if you have the Garbanzo beans ready. People don't believe me, so today I'm being cheeky. I've put my bedside clock next to the makings!
The AUTHENTIC ingredients
Simple. Only the Tahini might give you some difficulty. Get it from a Greek or Turkish shop. It's dirt cheap.
- 1 cup of Garbanzo beans aka Chickpeas.
- One third of a lemon, peeled, and de-pipped. Pulp and all.
- 1 (or more) clove of garlic.
- 2 TBSP of Sesame Tahini.
SESAME TAHINI ... what's that?
- Handful of parsley
- A pinch of cummin
- A good slosh of olive oil.
- Salt and pepper.
- Perhaps, some red hot chili. Some like it hot! Then the Lebanese call it Moutabel.
STEP 1: HOW TO MAKE HUMMUS
I'll confess up front. Four minutes PLUS 9 hours hours to prepare the Garbanzo beans, or Chickpeas, if that's what you call them. Or you can cheat if you don't mind paying five times as much and buy them in a can! - Take about a cup of dry beans, don't bother to measure, just turf them into a pot and cover with plenty of water. Leave them to soak at least overnight, and I like to leave them even longer. Then they take less time to cook. Rinse several times.
- Cover with boiling water and simmer for one hour, or until soft. Don't cheat: they give indigestion if not properly cooked. They must be soft.
- One minute before the end throw in a clove or two of garlic.
- Leave to stand, and meantime get on with the other ingredients.
USE YOUR IMAGINATION!
A stick of celery, a couple radish, half an avocado, now you have Avocado Hummus, half an eggplant cooked for five minutes in the microwave and scraped out of the skin (Eggplant Hummus), paprika, yoghurt... best hummus recipe!What we are indulging is in your favourite salads to make a healthy hummus recipe.
STEP 2: MAKE HUMMUS ! AUTHENTIC HUMMUS RECIPE
Note the Time: 11.48
I've slipped home from a four hour session at the Chiropractic Coalface, and I'm starving. How long will it take to throw some Hummus together for my Hummus Sandwich?Rinse the cooked beans, drain, and pour into a mixing bowl, together with the clove of garlic.
Time: 11.49
Wash and roughly chop your vegetables and the lemon. You're going to use the blender, so no need to be precise. The red chili. Chop the parsley benefits. Quick!
PARSLEY BENEFITS ... what are they?
Time: 11.50
Add the liquids: Olive oil, Tahini and Yoghurt, just slosh them in, perhaps two to three tablespoons each. The amount really isn't critical. Add your salt and pepper, and the pinch of cummin.
Time: 11.51
Get out your blender, and squish it all up. Oops, forgot the garlic today. "Stom" the Dutch would say. How could you possibly forget the "knoflook"?
Wow, Time: 11.52
"Klaar" we would say in Dutch. Finished. 1148 - 11.52 = 4 minutes! Plus 9 hours!
9.04 hours and I'm ready to make a Hummus sandwich. Or 4 minutes if you choose to cheat. Either way, this is a great way to get your evil LDL down in your blood cholesterol profile. Better still, it raises the champion HDL that takes nasty cholesterol back to the liver, getting it out of circulation. Want to live to a happy, healthy eighty?In any case, it tastes FANTASTIC! Believe you me, I do this every week! Add a slice or two of paprika, full of anti oxidants. Tastes lekker too. This is the best hummus recipe, believe you me, I enjoy it week after week, after week... a few more parsely benefits? Definitely! This is a very easy hummus recipe. Four minutes! This is the best hummus recipe you'll find on the net. Tried and tested.
STEP 3: EAT AND ENJOY A HUMMUS SANDWICH!
AUTHENTIC HUMMUS RECIPE
TOP SUPERFOODS FOR LOWERING CHOLESTEROL
Cholesterol.about.com, a very authorative site, lists the following: - Oatmeal - 1 bowl per day will lower your cholesterol between 8-23%.
- Beans, Lentils and Chickpeas - a fantastic way to add fibre...
- Avocado - decreases total cholesterol, whilst increasing the HDL fraction, the "good" cholesterol.
- Salmon - excellent source of Omega-3, a type of good fat believed to improve cholesterol profile.
- Walnuts - excellent source of Omega-3 for vegetarians particularly. For seafood lovers our fish soup has far more omega-3.
FISH SOUP ...
FORGOT THE GARLIC
I dont' follow recipes slavishly, with the result that I irritatingly forget an important ingredient occasionally. Today it had a positive result. Don't get me wrong, I love garlic. It's healthy stuff and, when making a mutton stew for example, I pitch a whole corm of garlic in.
MUTTON STEW ...
But I'll confess that I do get some wry looks from patients when I've put a couple of tablespoons of my authentic hummus recipe into my breakfast cereal. It does sustain me through the long morning at the Chiropractic Coalface, but second-hand garlic isn't such fun first thing in the morning.
CHIROPRACTIC COALFACE ...
The positive? I make up my authentic hummus recipe WITHOUT THE GARLIC. When it's mushed, I remove half (for my breakfasts), pop the blanched clove of garlic into the remaining half and blend it for real authentic hummus. Win-win! Next time perhaps I'll try 1/3 clove for breakfast garlic, remaining 2/3 for the authentic garlic recipe. Chop and change, experiment, taste... that's what's fun about cooking. Some recipes recommend three! cloves of garlic. Overkill. They've never actually made it. Then you can't taste the parsley benefits, or the sesame tahini and the other more subtle flavours. One clove!
CALORIES IN HUMMUS
AUTHENTIC HUMMUS RECIPE
All that olive oil and sesame paste. Is Hummus fattening? How many calories, and what about anti-oxidants, and other food stuffs like protein and is it high in carbs that we now know are one of the many causes of obesity?Of course you can change your authentic hummus recipe by adding less olive oil if you choose... that will immediately lower the calories in hummus.
CALORIES IN HUMMUS ...
HUMMUS - methionine and lysine
AUTHENTIC HUMMUS RECIPE
Vegetarians have to be very careful to balance their proteins, and over the centuries the typical vegetarian diet has evolved which contains a grain or seed PLUS a legume.The reason is simple. In order to live, survive, be healthy you need both methionine (found in seeds and grains) and lysine (found in legumes). Both are "essential" amino acids, and without both you and your children cannot be healthy. In fact, without both, your bodies and worse minds will be stunted, and you may even die. The disease is called Kwashiorkor, we see it all the time in rural Africa. Sesame seeds are known for particularly high in methionine. Chickpeas are rich in lysine. Together they make the perfect couple, the complete protein. So, if you want to make a low fat hummus (not actually what I recommend) cut back on the olive oil and not the tahini. Rather cut back on your saturated fats like butter, dairy and red meat. Those are the problem fats.
Why the Parsley?
Vegetarians have to make sure they are getting enough of an amino acid called Methionine. It's often in short supply. Meat lovers have too much of an amino acid called Homocysteine - it's been strongly linked to heavy plaque build up in the blood vessels, heart disease and stroke. Vegetarians eat a lot of parsley because of it's high Folate and Vitamin B6 content. They are an important link in the conversion of undesirable Homocysteine in the body, to very desirable Methionine. Parsley is not just a garnish, and for centuries the people living on the so-called Mediteranean diet have known it. Eat the parsley on your plate, don't trash it!
Plasma homocysteine levels are strongly influenced by diet, as well as by genetic factors. The dietary components with the greatest effects are folic acid and vitamins B6 and B12. Folic acid and other B vitamins help break down homocysteine in the body. Several studies have found that higher blood levels of B vitamins are related, at least partly, to lower concentrations of homocysteine. Other recent evidence shows that low blood levels of folic acid are linked with a higher risk of fatal coronary heart disease and stroke."
THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION.
Side dish of TAPENADE
You can rustle up a side dish of TAPENADE in fifteen minutes, five minutes if you choose (not recommended) to use de-pipped olives. Just olives, olive oil, capers and lemon. What could be easier?
Olive Garden Menu TAPENADE ...
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