Black Bean Hummus
Paul and I are big fans of hummus…all kinds, we love it. I also love to make it from scratch. But you know what I don’t like? Peeling those little skins from the chickpeas. It weirdly grosses me out and so I choose not to do it very often.
You know what doesn’t have skins that makes really stellar hummus? Yep – black beans! And they just go so well with some of my favorite herbs and spices like cilantro, cumin, Sriracha and lime juice. So my love for Mexican foods and flavors meets somewhat-healthy for this black bean hummus. And what makes it even easier is my trusty Blendtec whips it up in no time, with virtually little effort on my part. I used the Twister Jar which has a lid that spins in the opposite direction of the blade and helps all of the ingredients to be incorporated so quickly.
I made this dip for a meetup of some Kansas City Bloggers. (Have I ever mentioned that I am so grateful for a group like this?) I was in a hurry, threw in what I had on hand, and ran out the door. But failed to photograph. And of course, everyone loved it. So it didn’t take me long to throw together another batch of black bean hummus to share with you. It’s so creamy and flavorful. And did I mention super simple and quick? I know it lacks tradition, but this is probably going to make an appearance at Thanksgiving!
You might remember when I reviewed my trusty Blendtec blender a while back when I made Limemade Green Smoothies…I have enjoyed lots of smoothies, homemade salsa, crushed up the crumbs for the crust of my pecan pie bars…you get the idea.
Black Bean Hummus Recipe
Yield: 1 1/2 cups hummus
Prep Time: 10 min
A quick and flavorful recipe for black bean hummus with green onions, cilantro, cumin and Sriracha.
Ingredients:
1 (15-ounce can) black beans, rinsed and drained
2 green onions
1/4 cup cilantro
1 Tb. tahini
1 clove garlic
1 tsp. Lime juice
1 tsp. ground cumin
1 tsp. dashes Sriracha
1/4 tsp. salt
Dash of crushed red pepper flakes
2 Tbs. olive oilDirections:
Combine the beans, green onions, cilantro, tahini, garlic, lime juice, cumin, Sriracha, salt and red pepper flakes in a powerful blender (or food processor) with all ingredients besides the oil. Pulse a few times to bring the ingredients together. Add the olive oil, place the lid on and turn the blender on and process until smooth. Add more olive oil to achieve your desired consistency.
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As you know, I love all things hummus. I have a trusty black bean dip recipe but I’ve never added tahini!! Great idea!! BTW Have you tried edamame?? Another good one.
Cassie replied: — November 16th, 2012 @ 6:32 am
I have, yes, I love edamame hummus!
This idea is fantastic. I never thought about making hummus with anything other than chickpeas… but then again, I just learned to make hummus this year!
Also (entry for contest) my favorite Thanksgiving dish is stuffing/dressing. So delicious!
I’m all about the green bean casserole 🙂
I love anything sweet potato!
Ooo, That sounds heavenly! And what a great giveaway!!
I am so, so, into this! Looks lovely!
Oh, Cassie, this looks SO good! And cheers to Blendtec!!
I am going to have to try this! I am a hummus-aholic! it’s my go-to not-chips snack! these photos are great too!
Oh this looks amazing Cassie!
Cassie, not only am I IN LOVE with this hummus, I am green with envy of your beautiful scalloped bowl! Is that from Anthropology? I want it!! 🙂
Cassie replied: — November 16th, 2012 @ 8:22 am
I actually wanted to talk about the bowl in the post but couldn’t fit it in…my talented mom made it! She does some pottery as a hobby. I have lots of really cool pieces in my kitchen!
i love hummus of every kind. never thought of black beans what a genius idea Cassie 🙂
I have all these ingredients in the house so I will be whipping this up today! This would be great on a veggie wrap which I just decided will be lunch today. 🙂
Mashed potatoes with butter and gravy! That is a must-have for me at Thanksgiving!
my favorite dish for thanksgiving is mashed sweet potatoes with cinnamon 🙂
I really like stuffing!
That blender looks amazing and so does your hummus! I love trying to flavor combos and this one is a winner!
I love candied yam casserole with lots of brown sugar and pecans the best.
My favorite is the cranberry sauce!
Completely in love with my step dad’s sweet potatoes with cayenne cinnamon roasted pecans. Recently learned he puts Jack Daniels in them too–no wonder they rock!
Hummus looks so lovely. Long live black beans and good bye chick pea peeling!
Cassie replied: — November 16th, 2012 @ 2:49 pm
Cayenne cinnamon roasted pecans – must try those!
YUM!! This looks AMAZING!! Will definitely be making this for my afternoon snack today!
My favorite dish is the stuffing, so long as my mom isn’t the one to make it.
My favorite is stuffing! 🙂
Hummus is my favorite!!!!!! I would love to have this blender!!!
Oops AND for the giveaway… Fav Thanksgiving food is my Nana’s cream of corn cornbread.. SO good!
Stuffing..!! I love stuffing.
I love black beans and never considered making hummus out of them. Great choice! My favorite dish is the classic green bean casserole.
Stuffing is my favorite
ALL OF IT.
Well…I never actually peel the skins off my chickpeas when I make hummus. I just live with them. 😛 Though I do like the idea of a black bean hummus! MAJOR need to try!
Cassie replied: — November 16th, 2012 @ 2:48 pm
I guess I need to try to leave them on…they just totally gross me out! 🙂
Love hummus! My favorite on the Thanksgiving menu is Opa’s Stuffing!!
My favorite is my Mom’s dressing. Yum!
Thank you!
I fell in love with sweet potatoes this year. I never really gave them a second look and now I think we are in a life long relationship! I’ll take’m any way, baked, twice baked, mashed, in pie, casserole, baked into french fries and chips.
Cassie replied: — November 16th, 2012 @ 2:48 pm
Totally agree – we love sweet potatoes here too!
Would love this as a gift to me!!!
This looks fabulous! I need to experiment with hummus more often, it is so darn tasty 🙂 I think my favorite side dish is the stuffing…but I also love roasted garlic mashed potatoes and this cranberry jello salad my mom makes —- deeelish
Yams or this awesome homemade cranberry sauce I make! SO much better than the canned jellied kind! 😀
My favorite thing at Thanksgiving is pumpkin pie!
My favorite Thanksgiving dish is my grandmother’s cornbread dressing. No one makes it like her.
Sweet potato casserole!
Hardly a fair question, since almost everything on the menu is a “favorite”! Love turkey…sweet potatoes…stuffing…pumpkin pie…
Mashed potatoes!
My favorite Thanksgiving Day food is cranberry orange fennel sauce. Mmmmm.
I have to choose one? I do love dressing. I make two kinds–my Grandma’s recipe, using croutons, and my own recipe with cornbread. Both are so, so good with a drizzle of gravy.
I love love love the mashed potatoes!!!
Dressing is my favorite!
Does pumpkin pie count? haha
My favorite is Mashed Potatoes! Wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without them (one year my Grandma thought we didn’t need mashed potatoes…that was not a good year).
Homemade green bean casserole! mmm.
Oooo gurl! I lourves black bean hummus like you wouldn’t believe!! I always add a handful of feta cheese to it too! It’s sinful, but so good!!
Cassie replied: — November 16th, 2012 @ 2:47 pm
That is a great idea. Doing that next time!
stuffing for sure !
Mashed potatoes and Cheesy Corn – mixed together of course and piled on top of the turkey – that’s my favorite, oh wait, I forgot the dressing and gravy and the rolls, and the pie – ah, um, nevermind, everything on the Thanksgiving table is my favorite but just this one time a year 😉
My favorite dish would be the fresh baked rolls, dripping in butter. I could just eat bread for dinner. Yum.
My favorite Thanksgiving dish has got to be my grandmother’s dressing. I love black bean hummus and the siracha is s great addition! Thanks for offering the giveaway.
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving dishes is cornbread stuffing.
I like the mashed potatoes and gravy the best, too.
I’m on a diet, so my favorite Thanksgiving recipes are the dishes with only protein and vegetables that are DELICIOUS, and remove any hint of sadness at missing the fruit and starch and sugar.
Pumpkin bread! Although this is a hard question, do I get to pick a dessert too? Apple pie and vanilla ice cream 🙂
My fave Thanksgiving dish is the mashed potatoes haha. I know… so bad 😉 and the pumpkin pie! Gotta love it! I love that dish Cassie! So beautiful! I saw that you said your mom made it. She is one talented lady 😀
My pumpkin pie on an oatmeal crust!
When it comes to Thanksgiving, I’m a traditional girl, I like all the usual standards. HOWEVER my sister-in-law makes the absolute best sweet potato yams that people have to fight over to get some every year, it never fails, delish. On a second note, I LOVE hummus…and I absolutely LOVE black beans, so thank you SO MUCH for this recipe! I can’t wait to try it.
My favorite dish would have to be cranberry sauce, but pecan pie is a close second!
Pumpkin Pie of course!!!
My favorite dish is roasted veggies. I just love them!
Love this hummus!
I love garlic mashed potatoes!
my gma’s apple pie! 🙂
and i think the KC bloggers should come to STL for a meet up sometime!
Cassie replied: — November 16th, 2012 @ 2:46 pm
I agree, that would be a ton of fun!
Pecan pie
Turkey is my absolute favorite part of the Thanksgiving dinner! Always a classic!
Probably my mom’s sweet potato and apple bake.
Mom’s macaroni and cheese!
Cassie replied: — November 16th, 2012 @ 2:45 pm
I just read the post about it this week and it looks amazing! I can see why it’s a favorite.
I love the mashed potatoes with gravy. Great giveaway!
My mom’s stuffing – I’ve never had anything compare to it.
This hummus sounds amazing!! Can’t wait to try it! For contest – Sweet Potatoes and pumpkin dessert of some sort!!!
My favorite is my mom’s sage dressing.
My favorite dish is sweet potato casserole with streusel topping. Yum
Oh man, this looks so good! I’m obsessed with hummus but I don’t think I’ve ever had black bean. I want!
I love my aunt’s mashed potatoes!
Sweet potato casserole
This looks so good, and I love that bowl.
omgggg, cassie, this looks awesome! you have no idea how much i love you right now for hosting this giveaway! haha!
my all time favorite dish is pecan pie, by the way!
Stuffing. It is the base of the mound of food on my plate.
Send your chickpeas to me! I love squeezing those little skins off.
Also, sweet potato dishes and stuffing are tied for my favorite dish on Thanksgiving!
Definitely the stuffing!
My all time favorite Thanksgiving dish is stuffing for sure! So good!
Awesome hummus! I would LOVE to have a Blendtec!! Favorite Thanksgiving dish…I love an awesome cranberry sauce.
Green bean casserole is definitely my fave! And your hummus looks fab, Cassie! Happy weekend to you 🙂
mashed potatoes all the way! Sometimes on a holiday known for gluttony you have to indulge and pour the gravy on! 🙂
This is a hard one! At the moment, scalloped potatoes!
I love turkey with stuffing, but the stuffing has to be cooked in the bird!
I love the stuffing!
I love homemade cranberry sauce on the turkey and leftover Thanksgiving turkey sandwiches!
I love vegetarian stuffing at Thanksgiving.
I love hummus, what a great idea to use black beans!
I just made my first pumpkin hummus and would love to try black bean. I will be making this for football season for sure!
Sweet Potato Casserole is definitely my favorite topped with toasted marshmallows!
Stuffing! As long as it’s homemade!
Dressing with nothing weird going on in it. 🙂 That’s what my family says.
I could eat rolls alllllll day on Thanksgiving.
My all time favorite was my mom’s crabmeat dip. she would make a triple batch bc everyone inhaled it. she used beautiful lump crabmeat. i still remember the first time she taught me how to make it. she was amazing. i have tried several times to make it since she passed Aug 06. But it never fails. Yes it is delicious. But its not my mom’s. She had the magic touch. Hope everyone has a safe and blessed Thanksgiving!!
My favorite dish on the Thanksgiving menu would be my Aunt’s famous Egg custard Tart…so good!
My favorite dish is sweet potatoes!
oh i a a carb girl i love the stuffing
but a big second is home made cranberry relish
My favorite Thanksgiving dish would have to be my mother in law’s dressing! I try to copy it but it is never as good as hers!
My favorite is pumpkin pie!
I love stuffing! And pumpkin in any kind of dessert! Yum!
The turkey!
Thanksgiving has to include a sweet potato recipe because sweet potatoes are my all time favorite! This year we’re having maple roasted but I’m not ashamed to say that I also love them in marshmallow topped casseroles too.
Call me strange, but I love mashed turnipa (and it’s the only day my family ‘lets’ me serve it!)
My favorite thing to eat on thanksgiving is my mom’s homemade mac-n-cheese!
What a fantastic twist on hummus! My favorite Thanksgiving dish has got to be the stuffing!
What a delicious looking black bean dip!
I’m not sure I can choose a favorite Thanksgiving dish–maybe the dressing my husband makes every year. He doesn’t cook often, so it’s kind of his specialty (well, along with frozen pizza 🙂 ), and he’s really proud of it–with good reason!
I am a baked good/sweets girl so I get giddy over cornbread and sweet potato pie for Thanksgiving. Your hummus looks delicious. I lived in Egypt for 3 years and you couldn’t walk down a street without passing little local, hole-in-the-wall cafes selling fresh hummus and pita bread. Absolutely delicious!
We’re huge hummus lovers, too! I don’t know if I can pick one Thanksgiving favorite, the entire meal is so fantastic. I’ll go with stuffing because it is one food that I don’t ever enjoy any other time of year 🙂
My mom made a lime jello with tiny marshmallow, sour cream, slivered almonds and crushed pineapple topping. Yum!!!
Stuffing! I could eat it every day of the year, but especially on Thanksgiving
Favorite Thanksgiving dish is my grandmother’s cornbread dressing, which I make even though we have ham because no one likes turkey!
I love my mom’s cranberry chutney. Its sweet, tart, spicy and crunchy all in one and I steal some for later just to put on ice cream even though I could eat it by itself. Its that good.
The turkey — we only have it once a year, so it’s something I look forward to every year.
Pumpkin pie is my favorite.
cranberry sauce is my fave thanksgiving dish!
Definirely stuffing!!
My favoritte….that’s a toughie! I think it has to be stuffing. Only make it once a year and from scratch. I love it!
This is great! I’ve been making a lot of white bean hummus recently. I’ll have to try this version next!
I love sweet potatoes!
Stuffing is definitely my favorite part – a perfect turkey compliment!
sweet potato mashed!
This is such a fantastic giveaway, Cassie! I love indulging on my great grandmother’s mashed potatoes with cream cheese as Thanksgiving.
great giveaway! my all time favorite is green bean casserole! Thanksgiving just isn’t complete without it!
Homemade cranberry sauce
I love this take on hummus, Cassie! I’m crazy about black beans! I think my favorite Thanksgiving dish is stuffing!
cranberry orange relish
My favorite is grandma’s cranberry sauce.
I’m a huge hummus lover too but can you believe I actually have never made it yet?! I know, I’m a bad food blogger. But I promise, if I win this, your hummus will be the first thing I make 🙂
As for the giveaway, my favorite dish on the Thanksgiving menu has to be the candied yams.
I love homemade cranberry jellied sauce made with fresh, ripe, red cranberries!
This hummus sounds amazing. I love black beans and hummus so I am sure I would love this too! For thanksgiving I love the stuffing!!
Grandma’s stuffing is my favorite Thanksgiving menu item!
My favorite Thanksgiving menu item is stuffing!!
I love creamy mashed potatoes with mushroom gravy.
I would have to say my favorite on Thanksgiving would have to be the stuffing, but that’s only because it’s pretty much the only time of year we have it, while turkey, potatoes, cranberry sauce, etc. turn up during the year, and the desserts show up on other holidays and at random times. Thanks for the opportunity. 🙂
stuffing and cranberry sauce
I love Waldorf salad that Grama makes!
Great giveaway! My favorite is dinner rolls. I will happily eat fluffy and hot dinner rolls the whole day.
love anything sweet potatoes!
my fav dish is DRESSING!!! i love it!!
Pumpkin pie!
Garlic and herb mashed potatoes are my fav!
My favorite is always the butternut squash, regardless of what form it takes I just love the stuff.
Hmmm.my favorite side dish…has to be mashed potatoes!!!
Love your black bean Hummus!
So now you have made me feel terribly guilty because I never peel the skins of the chickpeas! I just blend them for longer. LOL. Your hummus looks AMAZING!
We go through hummus like crazy too – but I’ve never had it with black beans. Will have to try this, as I never have the patience to get rid of the chickpea skins. As for Thanksgiving – I am a mashed sweet potato girl through and through!
My family makes a hot pineapple casserole on Thanksgiving! Its my favorite!
Sweet potatoes are my absolute favorite. I love them baked, roasted, mashed…pretty much any way except coated in marshmallow. Who needs marshmallow when they taste so yum all on their own! 🙂
roasted chicken! (we don’t cook turkeys for the holidays in my family) 🙂
i love hummus – have never thought to make with black beans! can’t wait to try.
vegan butternut squash with walnuts and lentils
My all time favorite is probably cornbread stuffing
Fave thanksgiving dish is most definitely the mashed potatoes with gravy with chunks of turkey in it…. oh… and pumpkin cheesecake!! 🙂
My favorite Thanksgiving dish is my mom’s homemade stuffing!
My favorite thanksgiving menu iem is called Apple Cranberry Crunch…yum!
my all time favorite is my mom’s homemade apple pie!!
My favorites are the dressing and homemade pasta!
Hi Cassie! My favorite dish is the the stuffing- and ALL dessert!
All time favorite is stuffing! This dip looks amazing, btw. Love all the spice in it.
I love turkey on Thanksgiving. This hummus looks great! Just might make it. Never thought of making junkie before.
I did a deep fried turkey last year and will never go back. It has now become my favorite dish on the Thanksgiving menu.
I would have to say the dressing. I have a delicious recipe with sage sausage. from a dear older woman I knew. She is no longer with us and every time i think about her when I make it. Plus an added bonus, my boys love it and request I make it a few times a year. Great Memories!
I love baked/roasted whole sweet potatoes.
It’s gotta be my family’s cheesy potato casserole. It’s really simple, but I only get it a couple times a year (because it is definitely not the healthiest thing to be eating)!
I love pumpkin pie!
I love stuffing and sweet potatoes!! Annnnd pumpkin pie 🙂
Stuffing or dressing, is my favorite.
I gotta say the cranberry sauce is the best!
Something green with fruit!
Dressing
I love the yams and my mom’s oyster dressing. Can’t wait to eat it.
My all time favorite dish has to be the stuffing – I could probably eat that alone!
Pumpkin anything and homemade cranberry sauce.
That’s easy! My aunt’s Mexican chicken! 🙂
Can’t choose between the following, aunt’s sweet potato, aunt’s regular potatoes, cousins chocolate pecan pie, or my chocolate pumpkin pudding
Mashed potatoes or cranberry sauce!
So hard to choose but sweet potato casserole would have to be the winner!
Cornbread dressing is my favorite dish. Thanks for the great giveaway!
sweet potato casserole is my all time favorite
My favorite recipe is my Nanny’s sweet potatoes. She mashes them with white sugar, vanilla, and butter, and tops them with browned mini-marshmallows. It’s like eating dessert!
I love stuffing!! And pumpkin pie!
I’m a bit of an eccentric cook, but yet when it comes to thanksgiving I have a hard time stopping on the mashed potatoes&gravy! But pumpkin cheesecake is way up there too!
Devil Eggs
I start getting excited about making Thanksgiving stuffing about a month in advance. We make an Italian style stuffing loaded with sausage, olives, mushrooms, celery onions broth and of course copious amounts of butter. It is heaven. I also get excited about making cranberry sauce. This year it is flavored with ginger beer and orange juice. Yum. 🙂
Stuffing is the best!
Dressing or stuffing whatever you call it. I love it!
I love stuffing!
Pumpkin Pie.
I love deep fried turkey
I love smashed potatoes!!!
Everything!
would love to have a new blender!