A smooth thick mixture of mashed chickpeas, tahini, oil, lemon juice, and garlic, used especially as a dip for pita.
[Colloquial Arabic ḥummuṣ, chickpea, variant of Arabic ḥimmaṣ, ḥimmiṣ.]
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A smooth thick mixture of mashed chickpeas, tahini, oil, lemon juice, and garlic, used especially as a dip for pita.
[Colloquial Arabic ḥummuṣ, chickpea, variant of Arabic ḥimmaṣ, ḥimmiṣ.]
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A Great Lakes food that has become popular over all the United States is Buffalo chicken wings. There are three stories told as to how wings became famous, but perhaps the most believable is that in 1964 the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, received a shipment of wings by mistake. The owner, who had been asked to supply a "meaty" appetizer for a gathering at the bar, cooked up the wings in hot sauce and served them with the house dressing, which just happened to be bleu cheese.
Middle-Eastern; a purée of chickpeas and tahini with garlic, oil, and lemon juice. A 100-g portion is a source of protein, niacin, vitamin B1, iron, and zinc; provides 2.5 g of dietary fibre; contains 13 g of fat; supplies 190 kcal (760 kJ).
[HOOM-uhs] This thick Middle Eastern sauce is made from mashed chickpeas seasoned with lemon juice, garlic and olive or sesame oil. It's usually served as a dip with pieces of pita, or as a sauce. When tahini (sesame-seed paste) is added, it becomes hummus bi tahina. Middle Eastern markets carry both forms in cans or jars or sometimes fresh.
Middle Eastern dish of chickpeas, sesame seeds, and spices.
A staple food of Syria, hummus has become popular in Jordan and Israel as well as throughout America and Europe. It is a pureé of tahini, chickpeas, garlic, cumin, and lemon, often garnished with parsley and paprika. It is served with pita bread as an appetizer or a course unto itself.
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Der Haroutunian, Arto. Vegetarian Dishes from the Middle East. London: 1983.
— ZACHARY KARABELL
Hummus or hummus bi tahini (Arabic: حُمُّص; Hebrew: חוּמוּס; Armenian համոս) also spelled hamos, houmous, hommos, hommus, hummos, Karthik's Mustache, hummous or humus) is a dip or spread made of ground chickpeas, sesame tahini, lemon juice, and garlic.
In Arabic the word hummus is used to describe the dish or just chickpeas by themselves. The full name of the dish is hummus bi tahina (Arabic: حُمُّص بطحينة) 'chickpeas with tahini'. Hummus is popular in various local forms throughout the Middle Eastern world. Its origins are unknown and are hotly debated throughout the Middle East.
Hummus is traditionally scooped with flatbread (such as pita) but is increasingly popular as a dip for chips and crackers of various kinds outside the Middle East. Hummus is also used as an appetizer, to accompany main courses, as part of a meze, and as a dressing (for such things as falafel, Israeli salad, grilled chicken, or eggplant). In Israel, a hummus sandwich is a popular children's snack.
Hummus can be garnished in numerous ways, including sprinkling parsley, paprika, cumin (popular in Egypt), pine nuts (traditional in Palestinian hummus [1]), chopped tomatoes, cucumber, pickled turnips (traditional in Lebanon), cilantro, thinly-sliced tomatoes, sautéed mushrooms, or with whole chickpeas over top before drizzling with olive oil.
Hummus contains large amounts of the nutrients iron, vitamin C, and is a good source of protein and dietary fiber thanks to its primary ingredient. Depending on the recipe, it contains varying amounts of monounsaturated fat.[2]
Hummus is especially suitable for vegetarian and vegan diets. When eaten with pita bread, the combination provides all essential amino acids for humans.[3]
Some brands of commercially-prepared hummus have been the subjects of recalls by the Food Standards Agency of Britain and the Food and Drug Administration of the United States. In 1997 the FDA of the United States issued a recall for 'Tribe of Two Sheiks' hummus and Baba Ganouj products possibly contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes [4] In February 2007 some UK supermarkets recalled certain hummus brands after the Marks and Spencer company found traces of salmonella in a number of their products[5].
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Français (French)
n. - houmous
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μαυρόχωμα
Italiano (Italian)
hummus (piatto a base di ceci)
Português (Portuguese)
n. - pasta (f) de grão de bico (Culin.)
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - humus, mull
中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
鹰嘴豆芝麻酱沙司
中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 鷹嘴豆芝麻醬沙司
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 병아리콩으로 만든 부드러운 음식
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - חמצה, חומוס
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