Hoummus
Chickpeas - get em dry, soak them overnight and then rub them vigorously *snarf* to remove the outer skins. Discard water & skins.
Tahini - unless you're going to wizz up your own sesame seeds get a good expensive jar.
Roughly 1 part tahini to 8 parts chickpeas in the wizzer-upper thingy. Add fresh lemon juice and garlic (raw works but roasted is better) until it tastes good. A bit of raw chilli (with seeds you fucking wusses) and parsley doesn't go astray either.
Roast some pitta in the oven for a few min. till they're crisp. Bash with mallet to produce "Handmade Rustic Style Crisps".

Eat the fuck out of that bad boy like it ain't no thang!

A bam from an organically, hand-reared, free-trade spice weasel is optional.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sat 30 Jun 2012, 6:52, 3 replies)

i'v never actually used tahini, i'v always improvised with sesame oil.
However NEVER EVER try to do it without lemon juice or even worse...replace the lemon juice with lemon curd. Bleurgh!
(shezam slouching towards nirvana., Sat 30 Jun 2012, 9:25, closed)

some of the store bought crap is rank. Fresh made or a decent deli that does it fresh is the way forward. Its like dont mess with the zohan
(resistanceisfutile, Sat 30 Jun 2012, 9:45, closed)

Baba ghanoush is very similar
Basically the same recipe, but instead of chickpeas, get a couple of nice large eggplants, wash them and roast them. For best results, do this over a gas flame or a chargrill. Once the eggplants are soft, stick them in a covered saucepan and let them cool down. When they've cooled, remove and discard the skin, chuck them in a food processor, add the other stuff ringofyre mentions (I would use cumin instead of chilli and coriander instead of parsley, but whatever suits your taste), and blend it all together with some olive oil to smooth it out. If it's too bitter, you didn't cook your eggplants long enough - they need to be soft all the way through. If you cooked them over some kind of flame the baba ghanoush should have a lovely smoky flavour.
(oball needs Satan more than he needs me, Sat 30 Jun 2012, 10:28, closed)