Smoky, creamy, full of flavor with a hit of hot sauce. This black-eyed pea hummus is all dressed up like your rich fancy auntie living her best life!
Black-Eyed Pea Hummus
Description
Smoky, creamy, full of flavor with a hit of hot sauce. This black-eyed pea hummus is all dressed up like your rich fancy auntie living her best life!
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 ½ cups of cooked black-eyed peas ( or 2 cans of black-eyed peas, 15.5 oz each, drained and rinsed)
- 2 cloves of garlic
- Juice from 1 lemon (if you like it a bit more lemony like me, use 2 lemons)
- 1 tablespoon of Louisiana-style hot sauce
- ¼ cup tahini
- ⅛ teaspoon ground cumin
- ½ teaspoon smoked or sweet paprika + more for garnish
- 3 tablespoons olive oil + more for drizzling
- 2–3 tablespoons cold water (or use reserved liquid if black-eyed peas were home-cooked)
- Kosher salt and cracked pepper to taste
- ⅛ teaspoon red pepper flakes for garnish
Summer Salad
- 2 Persian cucumbers cubed
- A handful of cherry tomatoes halved
- 1 quarter of a red onion, diced
- 2 tablespoons of yellow bell pepper, diced
- 3 tablespoons seasoned rice vinegar
Instructions
- Prepare Summer Salad: Add all ingredients to a medium-sized bowl and toss with vinegar. Sit to the side.
- Add the black-eyed peas and garlic and purée in a food processor until they look like a gritty paste.
- Add the lemon juice and hot sauce and continue to process for a minute or two, until the mixture becomes smooth.
- Add the tahini, oil, spices, and reserved black-eyed pea liquid or water. Puree for 3-5 minutes, or until smooth. For super creamy hummus, you want your processor to werk, werk, werk, werk, werk! Let that baby go and don’t forget to scrape the sides down.
- Add a little salt and pepper to taste, depending on how well the black-eyed peas have been seasoned.
- How to dress this hummus up! Spread hummus in a thin, even layer on a large plate or small platter (about 1/2 – 3/4 inch thick). Drag the back of a spoon across the surface. In the center of the platter, make 1-3 circular dips with the spoon— it will look like circles within a circle. Use a spoon to create more dips in the hummus so it looks like little pockets. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with a little paprika and red pepper flakes. Add summer salad around the platter and enjoy!
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