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Hummus and Foul Topping Recipes by Michael Solomonov/Dizengoff

Some of what makes Dizengoff hummus tremendous is technique. Much of it, though, is ingredients. You don’t need to sell me on the creamy quality of dried chickpeas over the canned stuff. And then there’s the secret sauce. Lemon and garlic combine and sit together to temper each other. Add plenty of good quality tehina. Dizengoff uses Soom from the three Sisters Zitelman. So do I. I have become a Soom addict. Dizengoff hummus comes with a variety of seasonal toppings to choose from, including corn masebacha and spring onions with zhug. But my absolute favorite is foul — or ful — beans (what a surprise). I double-checked about the quantity of green beans in the topping. Yes, it’s 16 cups. You’ll be grateful for every last one.
Servings 4 -6 people

Ingredients
  

Hummus Tehina

  • 1 cup dried chickpeas
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 1/2 cups Basic Tehina Sauce plus a bit more for the topping
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
  • paprika
  • chopped fresh parsley
  • olive oil for drizzling

Basic Tehina Sauce

  • 1 head garlic
  • 3/4 cup lemon juice
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
  • 2 generous cups tehina
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cumim

Foul Topping

  • 2 tablespoon Kosher Salt
  • 2 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 medium onion diced small
  • 3 garlic cloves peeled, thinly sliced
  • 1 tablespoon tomato paste
  • 1 tablespoon Aleppo pepper
  • 1/2 tablespoon ground cumin
  • 1 tablespoon ground coriander
  • 1/4 tablespoon ground fennel seed
  • 1/2 tablespoon smoked paprika
  • 2 cups of parsley chopped
  • 2 cups of cilantro chopped
  • 3 cups crushed tomatoes
  • 16 cups green beans ends snipped and cut into thirds

Instructions
 

Hummus Tehina

  • Place the chickpeas in a large bowl with 1 teaspoon of the baking soda and cover with water. (The chickpeas will double in volume, so use more water than you think you need.) Soak the chickpeas overnight at room temperature. The next day, drain the chickpeas and rinse under cold water
  • Place the chickpeas in a large pot with the remaining 1 teaspoon baking soda and add cold water to cover by at least 4 inches. Bring the chickpeas to a boil over high heat, skimming off any scum that rises to the surface. Lower the heat to medium, cover the pot, and continue to simmer for about 1 hour, until the chickpeas are completely tender. Then simmer them a little more. (The secret to creamy hummus is overcooked chickpeas; don't worry if they are mushy and falling apart a little.) Drain.
  • Combine the chickpeas, tehina sauce, salt, and cumin in a food processor. Purse the hummus for several minutes, until it is smooth and Auber-creamy. Then puree it some more!
  • To serve, spread the hummus in a shallow bowl, dust with paprika, top with parsley and more tehina sauce if you like, and drizzle generously with oil.

Basic Tehina Sauce

  • Break up the head of garlic with your hands, letting the unpeeled cloves fall into a blender. Add the lemon juice and 1/2 teaspoon of the salt. Blend on high for a few seconds until you have a coarse puree. Let the mixture stand for 10 minutes to let the garlic mellow.
  • Pour the mixture through a fine-mesh strainer set over a large mixing bowl, pressing on the solids to extract as much liquid as possible. Discard the solids. Add the tehina to the strained lemon juice in the bowl, along with the cumin and 1 teaspoon of the salt.
  • Whisk the mixture together until smooth (or use a food processor), adding ice water, a few tablespoons at a time, to thin it out. The sauce will lighten in color as you whisk. When the tehina seizes up or tightens, keep adding ice water, bit by bit (about 1 1/2 cups in total), whisking energetically until you have a perfectly smooth, creamy, thick sauce.
  • Taste and add up to 1 1/2 teaspoons more salt and cumin if you like. If you're not using the sauce immediately, whisk in a few tablespoons of ice water to loosen it before refrigerating. The tehina sauce will keep a week refrigerated, or it can be frozen for up to a month.

Foul Topping

  • Heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium heat.  Add the onion and garlic, and cook until tender and translucent – about 5-10 minutes.  Season with a pinch of salt.
  • Add the Aleppo pepper, cumin, coriander, fennel seed and paprika to the pot and continue to cook over medium heat for 3-4 minutes.
  • Add the tomato paste and cook for another 5 minutes.  Add the crushed tomatoes and simmer on low heat for 15-20 minutes or until most of the water from the tomatoes has cooked out.
  • Let the tomato sauce cool completely, then add the chopped cilantro and parsley.
  • Meanwhile, bring another large pot of water to a roaring boil.  Fill a large bowl with ice and set to the side.  Once the water has come to a boil, drop the green beans into the water in small batches.  Let them cook for 3 minutes, then drain in a colander. Immediately transfer the green beans from the colander to the ice bath and let sit for 3 minutes.  Remove the beans from the water and set aside.
  • To serve, dress the blanched beans in the tomato sauce.  Add extra chopped herbs before serving.