Roasted Vegetables With Roasted Pepper Hummus Food

ROASTED VEGETABLES WITH ROASTED PEPPER HUMMUS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 450°F.
• In food processor, place chickpeas. Cover; process with quick on-and-off motions until smooth, adding enough reserved liquid (about 1/4 cup) to make a creamy mixture. Add roasted peppers, vinegar, 1 tablespoon oil and the garlic; process until smooth. If desired, season with salt to taste. Spoon into serving bowl. Let stand 30 minutes to blend flavors, or cover and refrigerate until serving time.
• In large bowl, toss vegetables with 1 tablespoon oil to coat evenly. Arrange in ungreased 15x10x1-inch pan; sprinkle with seasoned salt.
• Bake 7 to 10 minutes or until crisp-tender. Serve warm vegetables with hummus as a dip, or refrigerate vegetables at least 8 hours or overnight and serve with hummus.

ROASTED VEGETABLE HUMMUS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Toss the eggplant, bell pepper, onion and tomatoes in a bowl with the tablespoon of olive oil and 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
• Spread them in one layer on a baking sheet and roast for 30 to 40 minutes until the vegetables are very lightly browned and soft.
• Cool slightly and measure out 2 cups for this dish. Save any remaining roasted vegetables for another recipe, such as on a pizza for your lunch.
• In a food processor, place 2 cups cooked garbanzo beans, garlic, sesame tahini and 4 tablespoons olive oil.
• Process until the beans and garlic are almost completely ground.
• Add 2 heaping cups of the roasted vegetables to the processor along with the cumin, olives, salt and cayenne pepper. You can add more or less cayenne to suit your family's taste buds; I usually add at least another 1/4 teaspoon to ours.
• Process until almost smooth, leaving some texture and small bits of the roasted vegetables and olives showing through.
• Add more olive oil or some vegetable broth if you want to thin it out a bit.
• Taste for salt and pepper.
• Serve at room temperature.

ROASTED HUMMUS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• In a bowl toss the chickpeas, garlic, oil and spices.
• Place the mixture in a single layer on a baking sheet. Bake 25 minutes or until beans are slightly "crisp" and golden. Stir the beans occasionally while baking so that they roast evenly. (If the garlic looks as if it may be roasting too quickly, remove and continue baking the chickpeas).
• Once roasted, set beans aside to cool.
• In a blender combine the chickpeas, peeled roasted garlic, tahini, salt and lemon juice. Add about 1/3 cup of the reserved chickpea liquid. Blend until smooth, adding more cooking liquid if necessary to aid in blending. Stop machine and scrap down the sides with a spatula. Blend again until smooth, adding liquid as needed.
• Adjust seasoning. Transfer to serving bowl, cover tightly and refrigerate.
• When ready to serve, garnish with fresh parsley sprig. Serve the hummus with pita chips, French bread, cut up vegetables, etc.
• Hummus is best prepared at least 1 hour in advance, but ideally 3 hours is better.

ROASTED RED PEPPER HUMMUS WITH PINE NUTS

Steps:

• Note: *I use anywhere from 12-15 cloves, but your mileage may vary. It's also good to keep in mind that raw garlic takes a while to fully flavor a dish, so be careful of relying too much on that first taste. You just might end up adding more garlic when you don't actually need it (ha, as if there was such a thing!). When I make my hummus and serve it on the same day, I usually back off on the fresh garlic and increase the garlic powder, which gives more of an immediate flavor.
• If you're roasting your own peppers, throw them in the broiler now. Broil peppers until they're burnt to a crisp. Use tongs to place pepper in sealed plastic container and steam for 5-10 minutes (the longer you wait, the easier it will be to get that skin off). Carefully peel away blackened skin, then remove stem and seeds while preserving as much of the liquid inside the pepper as you can.
• Toast pine nuts in a hot, dry saucepan. These two things (broiling peppers and toasting pine nuts) can both be done while you're combining the rest of the ingredients, but be sure to keep an eye on the pine nuts, as they go from raw to perfectly toasted to burnt to a crisp in a matter of seconds.
• Combine garbanzo beans, tahini, lemon juice, garlic, salt, cumin, coriander, paprika, garlic powder, crushed red pepper, and cayenne in food processor and blend until smooth.
• Add roasted, peeled peppers** and as much of their liquid as you managed to save to food processor and blend into garbanzo bean mixture.
• Slowly drizzle olive oil into mixture until you get the consistency you're looking for.
• Taste the hummus. At this point, it usually needs another squirt of lemon juice and a half pinch of salt to really solidify the flavor.
• Garnish with paprika and toasted pine nuts and serve with vegetables, crackers, baguette slices, or pita
• (serving size is approximately 1/3 c).

ROASTED RED PEPPER AND ROSEMARY HUMMUS

Steps:

• Rinse chick peas and place in saucepan with water to cover.
• Bring to boil and simmer for 30-60 minutes to further soften, adding more water when necessary (This step really makes a big difference: Without cooking, you get more of a gritty store bought consistency; WITH cooking, you get a true authentic creamy consistency).
• Drain in strainer and set aside.
• Slice red pepper in half and take out seeds.
• Roast halves under broiler or on grill until skin is blackened (approximately 3-5 minutes).
• Place red pepper, garlic, parsley, onions, and rosemary in food processor and mince very finely.
• Add chick peas, tahini, lemon juice, salt, cumin, olive oil, and tamari or soy sauce to food processor and mix to form a thick paste, blending for about 10 minutes total with all the taste testing and tweaking of taste (To thin consistency if desired, add more lemon juice, olive oil, or lemon juice/water combination).
• Season with cayenne pepper to desired spiciness.
• Transfer to lidded container and store in refrigerator for 12-24 hours to age.
• To serve, spread to ½ inch thickness on plate, drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with Hungarian paprika and cumin for color and to taste.
• Serve with sliced, toasted pita, sliced baguette, or vegetables.

ROASTED RED PEPPER HUMMUS

Steps:

• Add chick peas to processor and puree.
• Add roasted pepper and remaining ingredients.
• Puree until smooth.
• Refrigerate.
• Serve with cracker,small pitas, vegetables.

ROASTED VEGETABLE COUSCOUS WITH HUMMUS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425°.
• Cut the red and yellow pepper in half and remove the seeds, then cut all of the vegetables in 1 inch pieces.
• Put into a roasting pan and add the sliced garlic and rosemary sprig and drizzle over the olive oil, tossing to coat evenly.
• Season and roast for 30-35 minutes or until the vegetables are tender and lightly caramelised, tossing occasionally.
• Meanwhile, prepare the couscous.
• Boil the vegetable stock or water.
• Add the couscous to stock (or water), swirl around a bit, cover, remove from heat and stand for 5 - 10 minutes.
• Add freshly ground black pepper and salt to taste.
• Fluff through so that the grains separate.
• Do this a few times while waiting.
• When ready add the cous cous to the pan with the vegetables and mix well.
• Return to the oven for 5 more minutes.
• TO MAKE HUMMUS:
• Put the garbanzos in a bowl with a clove of garlic, lemon juice and the 4 green olives.
• Season with black pepper and combine till smooth with a blender.
• TO SERVE:
• Divide between four plates.
• Place Veggie mix over the hummus before serving warm or cold.