Recipe: Appetizing Hummus topped with meat and pine nuts

Hummus topped with meat and pine nuts. The best homemade hummus you'll ever make passed down from my Syrian great grandmother! Easy to create and creamy this dish is sure to please! If I had to pinpoint the recipe that started it all, my Great Aunt Vieve's Lebanese hummus with toasted pine nuts would be the answer.

Hummus bil lahmeh is a traditional Middle Eastern hummus dish topped with warmly spiced meat, toasted pine nuts and pomegranate seeds. I've got some hummus in the fridge that can use a bit of pepping-up - this sounds intriguing! I googled "hummus with meat" and got this recipe. You can have Hummus topped with meat and pine nuts using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Hummus topped with meat and pine nuts

1. You need 2 cups of canned chickpeas.
2. You need 5 tablespoons of tahini, sesame paste.
3. You need 3 cloves of garlic, crushed.
4. You need 4 tablespoons of lemon juice.
5. You need 1 teaspoon of salt.
6. It's of The topping:.
7. It's 200 g of beef, cut in tiny cubes.
8. It's 2 tablespoons of raw pine nuts.
9. Prepare 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
10. You need 1/4 tablespoon of black pepper.
11. You need 1 of pinch of cinnamon.
12. It's 1 of pinch of salt.

Välj bland ett stort urval liknande scener. Pine nuts are the edible seeds of pines although not all species of pine produce them in large enough quantities to be worth harvesting. They've been cultivated for centuries and are common in Europe, Asia and the Americas. A Lebanese specialty, creamy hummus is topped with hushwee, a cinnamon-scented meat and pine nut mixture, then served with warm pita bread.

Hummus topped with meat and pine nuts step by step

1. Drain the chickpeas and blend them in a food processor until you get a smooth paste..
2. In a big bowl, dilute the tahini paste with 1 tablespoon of warm water. Add the crushed garlic, lemon juice and salt. Mix well until you get a whitish liquid sauce..
3. Add the chickpeas paste to the sauce and mix well. Adjust lemon juice and salt according to taste. Transfer the hummus to a serving dish..
4. For the topping: heat the oil in a small pan over medium heat. Fry the pine nuts until they turn golden in color. Remove and drain on a kitchen absorbent paper..
5. In the same pan, fry the beef cubes for 10 min or until they are well done. Sprinkle with black pepper, cinnamon and salt. Remove from heat..
6. Top the hummus with the fried meat at the center of the dish and sprinkle with fried pine nuts. Serve with pita bread..

Greek style lamb koftas are perfect for a barbecue and just as tasty griddled. To serve, spread the hummus in a serving bowl and top it with the beef. Keep hummus and parsley oil chilled, covered, and pine nuts and cumin seeds in an airtight container at room temperature. Strip leaves from additional parsley sprigs. Season with salt and pepper, and combine well.