What goes with hummus? Carrots in particular...

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Carrots are fine with hummus. I do kind of feel like celery dilutes the overall effect, but what the hell? Celery is better with hummus.

What I particularly delight in with hummus is either tortilla chips or fries. I did try pita chips, and it’s a fine combination, but also plain saltines will do. String cheese is just a little better dipped in hummus.

I’ve been meaning to start a thread talking about making hummus. I’ve only started doing so recently, but even before then I was using the stuff as a basic condiment. Based on recipes on the internet, and my own trials at home, I’m currently best satisfied with the following:

1 Can Garbanzo Beans (usually Bush’s Best), liquid set aside
60 g Tahini (Joyva is the brand available at my grocery store)
60 ml Olive Oil (Wal-mart Extra-version, if that matters)
20 ml hot sauce (Chipotle tobasco)
30 ml lemon juice (generic)
50 ml liquid from garbanzo can
3-4 Cloves of garlic (pressed, with my garlic masher)
Some kosher salt
Some red pepper
Everything in the food processor, and blend until you give up trying to make it look creamier.

Some thoughts: I’m still not sure after all these years how to judge the intensity of garlic, since cloves vary widely. For stews, 6-8 cloves always seems to work out just fine. I only recently tried adding red pepper, and what I didn’t think of as a lot of the stuff seemed to make a big difference for the better. The stuff is not as good, overall, as my favorite commercial brand Sabra. It’s less smooth, for one thing, even if I try peeling the beans first. And the Sabra has an overall nicely polished flavor profile, if what I mean by that could possibly be referred to so abstractly. But in other ways it’s better – I get a sharper garlic taste, not to mention the bite of the red pepper, and I find that now that I know which part of the flavor is tahini, I like to get a stronger taste of it. So, overall the fact that the homemade stuff is significantly cheaper to make is a huge win.

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I like sliced cucumber or cucumber spears with hummus.

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Whatever happened to green onions as a dipping vegetable? I remember when they we included in the standard display with carrots and celery, etc., but no more. I wonder why?

Green onions are great with hummus.

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It looks like those are what I’d call spring onions, so basically this.

Also, fingers.

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Anybody who’d turn down carrots would probably turn down green onions. But, yeah, I’ve never seen the stuff put out for dipping.

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They are common as a snack item in our house, as are radishes. We also dip radishes in hummus [or at least I do]

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In a previous thread on hummus, I shared the tip of making it with garbanzo bean flour. !/4 cup of flour to a cup of water. Boil the water, stir in the flour, whisk like crazy while turning down to a simmer. It thickens up quickly, so you just need to cook it a few minutes to get the “raw” taste out of it. It is the absolute CREAMIEST hummus you’ve ever eaten!

For dipping, bagel chips are divine. Daikon radish slices into chips like cucumber. And I’ve heard that you can take those GAWD-awful rice cakes, spread with hummus, and place veggie slices on top, to turn the rice cakes into something actually EDIBLE.
~VOW

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Don’t care for carrots, but I do like gyro dipped in hummus. The chewy, spicy gyro contrasts nicely with the smooth hummus texture and taste.

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Hummus’ texture and taste can vary widely. It can also be flavored (don’t buy the roasted tomato hummus, it tastes like ketchup and those two are not interchangeable).

I will try that recipe above. We’ve already tried tzatziki, what else can we do wrong?

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agree with everything and wanted to add pickled radishes.

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…skimming over the title, I first read this as “What goes with human? Carrots in particular…”

(I’m guessing Long Pig isn’t halal, either.)

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Something that often occurs to me when I’m eating hummus is that the flavor reminds me of my dad’s Deviled Eggs. He used stone ground horseradish mustard. Why these things should seem similar is a mystery to me, but it makes me think hummus would be a terrific base for deviled eggs.

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As a Middle Easterner, my first reaction upon reading the OP was akin to that of those Afghanis reacting to the burned Qurans. But on second thought… what the hell, you’re Americans. Do whatever you want. Sure, go ahead, wipe your hummus with carrots. I can’t stop you.

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Just out of curiosity, what do you, as a Middle Easterner, consider “proper” applications of hummus?

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You either wipe it from a bowl with torn pieces of pita, or you use it as a condiment on meat.

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Pita and falafel.

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Sorry it took so long to get back to this thread. I got distracted buying things for the party, then prepping.

I’m still curious what others like, for sure. I ended up using carrots, daikon radish, celery and pita to dip in my hummus. Apparently only one of those isn’t sacrilegious, but I was given retroactive permission to be American & do what I wanted. So, that’s what I did. :wink:

I love hummus with pita most of all. But with carrots is pretty freakin’ good, and better for me than just about all the other foods I like to eat. (Honestly, though? I still ate more pita + hummus than carrots + hummus.)