A few days ago, I cooked too many dried chick peas. Adding these peas to salad or soup gets a bit boring, so I made hummus for the first time. Hummus is from the Mediterranean and Middle East regions, but it's easy to buy it at any supermarkets in London. I used to eat it very often, spread on toasts, or used as a dip with crackers or freshly cut vegetables. But I won't buy it from a supermarket since tasting my own home-made hummus! It was very tasty and easy to make.

I didn't have my digital camera handy, so I used a mobile phone camera. It doesn't look good, does it? But it was so tasty!

I checked a few recipes on the internet, one of the recipes said 'for 3 cups of cooked chick peas, 2 ts tahini (sesame paste), 1 garlic clove, 2 pinches of cumin, 2 tbs olive oil, a bit of salt', but I didn't really follow the recipe. I used a barmix (hand blender) to mix everything, added more tahini, cumin, some lemon juice and yoghurt water to get the right texture. Some recipes recommend adding water or the cooking liquid from peas. It was easy to make tahini from roasted sesame seeds with a bamix. Hummus doesn't last for long, even in a fridge, so don't make too much. I think 1 cup cooked chick peas is enough for 4 persons as a little snack. Let me know if it's tasty.