Turkish Hummus with Yogurt
Updated June 14, 2023
- Total Time
- 2 hour 15 minutes
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Ingredients
- 6ounces (1 cup) dried chickpeas, rinsed, picked over and soaked for 4 to 6 hours, or overnight
- Salt to taste
- 2garlic cloves, green shoots removed
- ½teaspoon ground cumin
- 3tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 3 to 4tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, to taste
- ¼cup thick Greek-style or drained yogurt
- Fresh pomegranate seeds
- Ground cumin
- Black olives
For the Garnish (optional)
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Preparation
- Step 1
Drain the soaked chickpeas and place in a pot with 1 quart of water. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer 1 hour. Add salt to taste and continue to simmer for another hour, or until chickpeas are thoroughly tender. Remove from the heat. Drain but retain about ½ cup of the cooking liquid. You should have 2 cups cooked chickpeas.
- Step 2
Turn on a food processor fitted with the steel blade and drop in the garlic. When the garlic is chopped and adhering to the sides of the bowl, stop the food processor and scrape down the sides of the bowl. Add the chickpeas, salt and cumin, and turn on the machine for about 30 seconds. Stop the machine, scrape down the sides, and start the machine again. With the machine running, add the lemon juice, olive oil and yogurt, and blend until smooth. Taste and adjust salt. Thin out as desired with cooking broth from the chickpeas, or with more yogurt. Transfer to a wide bowl, and garnish if desired. Serve with warm pita bread.
- If you choose to use canned chickpeas, drain and rinse before proceeding with Step 2. You will need 2 cups.
- Advance preparation: Cooked chickpeas will keep for three or four days in the refrigerator. The hummus will keep for a couple of days but will become more pungent.
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Comments
Subbed dark sesame oil for the olive oil--very very good.
Pretty good, different. Used 1 tsp.. ground cumin (otherwise why bother). 1 cup dried beans ended up 3 cups cooked, which is the same as 2 15oz cans.
quick and delicious. I added some kalamata olives on the top and sprinkled with just enough paprika for some color
Missing Tahini ! You cannot make a Turkish hummus without Tahini ! Im 70 years old and Turkish ! No one in Turkey or Turkish cypriot north cyprus make hummus without Tahini paste ! You just cant achieve the essential nutty taste you need to have without sesame seed paste .
Worked better with canned chick peas vs dried
Delicious! I didn’t have tahini and wanted to make hummus. This was really yummy, and very creamy. The flavor is only slightly different than traditional hummus. I doubled the recipe and switched out 1 tablespoon of olive oil with roasted garlic olive oil.
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