Hummus 3 Way

I absolutely love hummus. Love! I can eat it for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks in between. The best part is it's insanely easy to make. All you need is a food processor, garbanzo beans, tahini, lemon juice, salt and pepper....and the possibilities to "spruce it up" are endless!

Earlier this week I made a basic hummus recipe and then added 2 special ingredients to it to make it...well, special :)

Basic Hummus Recipe
2 cups garbanzo beans
1/3-1/2 cup liquid (water, or liquid from canned garbanzo beans...or part of each)
2 tablespoons tahini
2 garlic cloves
juice of 1 lemon
salt & pepper

In a blender puree all ingredients until they are well incorporated and smooth. Add more liquid/salt/pepper if needed. Feel free to add olive oil to taste.

I then divided the basic hummus into 3 parts: one remained as is, and I added a few tablespoons of store-bought pesto to the 2nd part: Pesto Hummus.

I put the last portion of basic hummus back into the food processor and added one roasted pepper and pureed the whole thing together to make Roasted Red Pepper Hummus.

Here they all are: ready to be enjoyed.

Note: looking back, I should have cut down a bit on garlic because pesto already had a lot of garlic, and combined with the garlic in the basic recipe it was a bit overwhelming.

Other suggestions: in the past I've added sundried tomatoes to hummus; you can also experiment with olives, or try my butternut squash hummus recipe.