With all the basil I’m growing, I’ve been looking for some good recipes so that I can use it – we can only eat so much pesto chicken and pasta!
I love hummus, and I have a wonderful new food processor, so I decided to try some pesto hummus. I started off with this recipe from allrecipes.com, but it seemed to be missing something. So, I decided to start modifying it, tasting it after every addition until I was happy with the outcome.
I ended up adding extra basil (probably about a cup total), a lot of extra olive oil (didn’t measure, but keep adding until you have a smooth consistency), two extra cloves of garlic, about 1/8 cup of pine nuts and shaved parmesan, and probably 1/2 tsp of salt and lemon juice.
mmm, looks delicious! that would be yummy on some flatbread!