It took me a while to acknowledge or conceed how important, joy bringing, adaptable and worthy of a recipe post my version of this well known and much loved condiment is! I bring it on pretty much all of my events as I want people to experience both deliciousness and how easy it is to come up with wonderful twists on familiar foods. Enjoy but be warned you may like I become hooked on hummus!

Ingredients:

Play with the quantities and use this as a starting point…

Chick peas, butter beans or black beans (1 jar/can)

Tahini (1 tbspn)

Olive oil – 30ml

Lemon juice – 20ml

One or two cloves of garlic (roasted or fresh)

Herbs – dried or fresh (or both) – as much as you like. I love using alexanders leaves in the winter, wild garlic leaves in the spring and various mustard leaves and common sorrel in summer and autumn…

miso paste – 1 tbspn

seasoning – to taste (bearing in mind the miso is very salty)

Favourite spices -Hogweed seeds, Smoked paprika, zataar, fennel or cumin seeds, toasted sesame seeds, lovage seeds (These are just some of my favourites)

Method:

Combine all ingredients in a Nutribullet or use a hand-held stick blender. Blend to the consistence you want (I like it quite course normally). Spoon into a container. Now, before enjoying, you can make it look really pretty adorning with edible flowers from three cornered leek, wild garlic, thyme, rosemary and/or many other garden and wild herbs. Dried nettle seeds look good sprinkled on top also. Have fun!