Low-Fat Hummus

[Ambient]

30 oz Chick peas or gorbanzo.
4 Cloves garlic
Lemon Juice
Teaspoon sesame oil (or teaspoon tahini> peanut butter)
Salt+Pepper
Cummin
1 cup natural unsweetened youghurt (or until consitancy).

<3 Natural Youghurt.

P.S Cummin is the spice traditionally used in hummus by many cultures.

[Mantikore]

ive always used tahini in hummous. so in this recipe, youre just replacing oil with yoghurt?

anyway, i love hummous. i often eat it with just a spoon.

[Ambient]

Well dairy is often used in hummus. My parents use milk to replace alot of cream/butter i.e. in curry but ive found natural youghurt gives a better texture and has similar nutritional value.

So its really desighned as a replacement to butter/olive oil/cream.

Some kind of liquid (thick or thin) has to be used to give the consistancy; so instead of the various things that could be used i use natural youghurt.

I pretty much use it as a replacement for all high-fat diary especially in curry which naturally utilises natural youghurt anywway.

Id only use milk or natural youghurt, a little bit of butter maybe if im baking.

Milk for thinks like pancakes , fritters that dont call for cream anyway.

[Candiru]

Thanks for the recipe, man. As a hummus junkie I will make this as soon as I can. Maybe a little less garlic though?

[Ambient]

Thanks for the recipe, man. As a hummus junkie I will make this as soon as I can. Maybe a little less garlic though?

No such thing if your italian! (hummus is a medditeranian dish)

[Kwinnie Bogan]

What? Hummus is more middle eastern than it is mediterranean.

[Ambient]

What? Hummus is more middle eastern than it is mediterranean.

Arguably.

I understand where your comming from; but understand many "middle eastern" countries border the medditeranian sea and medditeranian countries.

Greek; Jew, Israeli, Turkish, palestinian.

[Kwinnie Bogan]

- One 'd', two 'r's. Please.

- Yeah / nah. Your understanding is only that way for marketing reasons, because the majority of the American consumer market are dumbasses (who buy a product or service based on it's name or reputation, which in their market it based on nothing more than their twisted backwards perceptions). Why do you think hummus is so heavily associated with Greece in the US, despite the fact that it's more synonymous with other nations and cultures? Marketing. Middle eastern isn't a dirty word.

Forgive me for being blunt.

[Ambient]

- One 'd', two 'r's. Please.

- Yeah / nah. Your understanding is only that way for marketing reasons, because the majority of the American consumer market are dumbasses (who buy a product or service based on it's name or reputation, which in their market it based on nothing more than their twisted backwards perceptions). Why do you think hummus is so heavily associated with Greece in the US, despite the fact that it's more synonymous with other nations and cultures? Marketing. Middle eastern isn't a dirty word.

Forgive me for being blunt.

Understanding; not spelling and grammar.

If i have spelled the word well enough for a lingui-nazi to identify it and correct it then you have understood what i have said and fulfilled the communication as far as im willing to take it.

.... So your saying its a historical innacuraccy to say that hummus is part of Greek, Judeaic, Israelite, Turkish and Palestinian cuisine?

Or is that just marketing?

Edit: Eygpt too i think (no its not middle eastern its african)

[Kwinnie Bogan]

Understanding; not spelling and grammar.

If i have spelled the word well enough for a lingui-nazi to identify it and correct it then you have understood what i have said and fulfilled the communication as far as im willing to take it.

That 'disclaimer' is worth jack shit when you've got the proper spelling right in front of you, and the only thing preventing you from using it is laziness. It's not for the sake of communication, but for the sake of self respect. Whatever floats you boat amigo.

.... So your saying its a historical innacuraccy to say that hummus is part of Greek, Judeaic, Israelite, Turkish and Palestinian cuisine?

Or is that just marketing?

Edit: Eygpt too i think (no its not middle eastern its african)

It's not the first part of your reply, but I want to address it first - because it's vital here - that it depends on which 'official' definition of middle eastern you're using, darling. The one that favours your argument just so happens to be the American one. Go figure that one out and get back to me.

+ That's not supposed to be what I said anyway, so for the benefit of sanity let me say it again; Hummus is more middle eastern cuisine than mediterranean. That's not to say that it's not associated with the mediterranean, because it is (largely due to marketing), and in turn that's not to say that either Greece and other true Mediterranean countries are actually Middle Eastern, or that hummus is only popular in the Middle East. Can you get you head around this yet? Do not try and twist my words if you don't even know what I'm saying. It just won't work.


Lastly, you're now starting to mix up you cultures with your regions. Stop it. You're also confusing nations and continents with regions too. Egypt is mediterranean, by all creditable definitions!

[Ambient]

That 'disclaimer' is worth jack shit when you've got the proper spelling right in front of you, and the only thing preventing you from using it is laziness. It's not for the sake of communication, but for the sake of self respect. Whatever floats you boat amigo.



It's not the first part of your reply, but I want to address it first - because it's vital here - that it depends on which 'official' definition of middle eastern you're using, darling. The one that favours your argument just so happens to be the American one. Go figure that one out and get back to me.

+ That's not supposed to be what I said anyway, so for the benefit of sanity let me say it again; Hummus is more middle eastern cuisine than mediterranean. That's not to say that it's not associated with the mediterranean, because it is (largely due to marketing), and in turn that's not to say that either Greece and other true Mediterranean countries are actually Middle Eastern, or that hummus is only popular in the Middle East. Can you get you head around this yet? Do not try and twist my words if you don't even know what I'm saying. It just won't work.


Lastly, you're now starting to mix up you cultures with your regions. Stop it. You're also confusing nations and continents with regions too. Egypt is mediterranean, by all creditable definitions!

Well you know i wasnt intending for this thread to be about this sort of thing; so dont confuse the summarized nature of my argument as inarticulate.

But a challenge has been issued.

* "Correct" English (or formal) has its place; in formal writing/ communication. This is not within that context.

The "middle east" is a term coined by the British India office and popularized by Alfred Thayar Mahan as the area surrounding the Persian Gulf. Their are varying definitions of "middle-east" geography because of enculturation and acculturation of sourounding areas such as East Africa and east East Asia countries. So it is between the east of Asia and the east of africa therefore the middle east.

This conception can also be applied to the society; being "eastern" in culture but possesing symptoms of modernization which is viewed as a "western" trend even though middle-eastern countries were industrializing before the British Empire. So its in between the wild- side of Africa and the more timid idiom of Asia.

So its in between in many ways so it is "middle" in nature and geography between the Easts of two continents.

As for the hummus; who gives a shit that's just semantics.

[ratfrink]

^ her, er, I dunno if you noticed, but you spelt 'surrounding' wrong. Just a heads up.

[scovegner]

^ her, er, I dunno if you noticed, but you spelt 'surrounding' wrong. Just a heads up.

^ hey, I dunno if you noticed, but you spelled 'hey' and 'spelled' wrong. Just a heads up.

[jailbaitjenkum]

^ hey, I dunno if you noticed, but you spelled 'hey' and 'spelled' wrong. Just a heads up.

"spelt" is completely applicable. It's from the English language, and not the bastardised form of the English language that the U.S. uses.

OP, seems like a great recipe. I will make sure to try it out.

[Ambient]

^^ Guys.

This forum is about food, if you want to preach your linguistic superiority and therefore others linguistic inferiority why dont you just fuck off to the linguistic forum and you can all jerk off together?

[The English Gentleman]

Is low fat yoghurt acceptable?

[Ambient]

Is low fat yoghurt acceptable?

Natural unsweetened.

Low-fat yougurt pwns; .3 grams of fat, 5 g protient 10g carbs; its almost perfect.

[Kwinnie Bogan]

I used pot set. It's the same stuff as natural plain yoghurt and the only way to go. It's great stuff.

[KyleKyle Bensen]

You can also mix the Chick Peas with Hominy and it cuts the fat a lot more. There is no texture change, and the taste difference is minute.

[Ambient]

You can also mix the Chick Peas with Hominy and it cuts the fat a lot more. There is no texture change, and the taste difference is minute.

Chickpeas have 5% fat.

Perhaps you would cut the carbs but unless Hominy is readily avialable and cheaper i wouldnt bother eh.

[Duelist]

^ her, er, I dunno if you noticed, but you spelt 'surrounding' wrong. Just a heads up.

also, dunno isn't really a word,

but i understand you're meaning.