Mine is a
hummus eating family. Yes hummus…we like to it hummus with almost everything
like raw vegetables, breads, chip or any crispy snack. I guess you have started
thinking that it spikes our blood glucose level every single day. No, it doesn’t,
because lentil hummus is low in calories.
Ingredients
required:
½ cup of Bengal gram
lentil (chana daal)
3 tomatoes
3 tomatoes
3 chopped and
peeled garlic cloves
2 Dry red chilis
1.5 tsp dry roasted
and ground black pepper
Curry leaves /
Dhania leaves / Rosemary
Lemon juice
Oil for frying,
garnishing
Method I
followed:
Heat oil in a
frying pan. Add lentil to the hot oil. Roast the lentil until you find brown
spot on them. Remove the roasted lentil from the pan and set aside for cooling
down.
Add little more
oil to the pan. Add garlic and red chili to the oil and let them heat up.
Take another pan
and place the tomato halves. Now dry roast them at high heat till the moment
the skin of tomato chars and they become mushy. Remove the skin of the tomato carefully.
Add black pepper,
curry leaves (or other option mentioned in the ingredient list) and salt to the
warm tomato and leave it covered for 10 minutes.
Now take roasted
lentil, tomato and lemon juice in a blender bowl and blend it for few minutes or
until you get smooth hummus.