Yellow pea hummus
With this quick and easy hummus, replace chickpeas with Quebec yellow peas: it's delicious!
Preparation
10 minutes
Cooking
0 minutes
Yield
1 large bowl
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Good to know
You're not wrong: yellow peas have replaced chickpeas! It's a great alternative, and it's grown locally!
Beware: the taste of yellow peas is more bitter than chickpeas... If you prefer to tone down the bitterness, you can add a few drops of balsamic vinegar to finish the seasoning. And that's it!
Bonus: it's even cheaper to buy dried yellow peas and cook them yourself. In a large saucepan, let them simmer uncovered over medium heat for at least 30 minutes before preparing the hummus. The yellow peas should be sufficiently melting when cooked!
You can enjoy this quick and easy hummus with pita bread or naan, for example.
Source: Malek Batal, Professor of Nutrition, for Équiterre
- 500 ml (2 cups) Quebec yellow peas
- Juice of 2 large lemons
- 500 ml (2 cups) tahini
- 2 cloves of garlic
- Salt, to taste
- 30 ml (2 tablespoons) olive oil
- Cumin
- Smoked paprika (optional, to taste)
- Balsamic vinegar (optional, to taste)
- 1In a food processor, blend yellow peas with a little of their juice or cooking liquid, lemon juice, tahini and salt until smooth.
- 2Serve in a bowl or on a platter and season with cumin and olive oil.
If it's too bitter for you, you can add a few drops of balsamic vinegar and stir!
Compared to the ready-to-eat hummus sold in supermarkets, this recipe:
• Contains 2.5 times less salt
- • Represents just 2% of daily per-capita greenhouse gas emissions associated with food in Canada
- • Costs 1.5 times less
