White Bean Hummus

I was never a big fan of hummus, this is until I made it myself.  Prior to my epiphany I never understood what the all the fuss was about.  I loved all the ingredients that went into hummus: garlic, lemon, chickpeas and olive oil...but for some reason it just never tasted any good.  If I remember correctly most of the hummus I tried was probably store bought but even the odd homemade batch did nothing for me.  It didn't make any sense to me so one day I decided to try making my own.  I found a few recipes and from these made some adjustments according to my person preferences and came up with my hummus recipe.  This is when I fell in love with hummus and understood the attraction, I had been missing out!  I found out I prefer my hummus less garlicky and more lemony and now that I know, I can make it this way.

Once I had discovered a passion for hummus there really was no need to mess with perfection but I couldn't resist and I ask you, why can't there be room in one's heart for another hummus?  I remember two summers ago when Bryn and I went out for dinner on our anniversary we had a number of different tapas as an appetizer and one of them was a white bean hummus, it was amazing!  In one of my new cookbooks Eat, Drink & Be Vegan, Dreena Burton has a whole section dedicated to hummus and one of them happens to be for white bean hummus.  It was fate.  And I now have a second hummus love.  Dare I expand my hummus love even further with the black bean hummus?  (you bet I will)

White Bean Hummus with Fresh Thyme & Basil

*photo by Bryn*

If you're interested in trying it yourself, you can find the recipe here on Dreena's blog.