The Great Pressure Cooker Recipe Test of 2012 - Hummus

I make hummus a lot.  I always use canned chickpeas/garbanzo beans so I was looking forward to trying this recipe and specifically working with the dried beans.

I chose this recipe as the second to try in The Great Pressure Cooker Recipe Test of 2012 because we had a party to attend and therefore I would have lots of people to guinea pig on OR lots of people to help us eat it up if it really sucked.  Recipe Origin - Simply Delicious Hummus 

Water after cooking - about 1/2 cooked out through the pressure cooker process

Next time I am going to try hand mashing like I would on s/v Honey Ryder.  Or maybe I will get my sous chef Tom to do that part!

Results-Findings-Thoughts-Yum Factor 
Ok, I didn't follow the recipe exactly. Yeah, I know I said previously I would for test purposes but....I had SO many beans so I doubled the recipe bean wise.  Then that caused me to make other changes.  First -I soaked the entire bag of beans.  I wasn't thinking, I should have measured out 1 cup and soaked only those.  I thought I had to double the water because I doubled to 2 c beans.  I don't think I really needed all that water. I probably could have gotten by with 1/2 as much again verses doubling (so maybe 9 c water?).  I doubled the garlic and bay leaves.  I upped the cooking time to 20 mins.  That was perfect for this double batch.    I doubled the Tahini which was boarder line too much.  I only used one lemon and that was fine.  Next time however I will use the lemon zest too as I adore lemon zest.  I used minimal cooking water.  I think my cooked beans had quite a bit of liquid in them.  Overall - very good.  It was completely snarfed down at the party.  I didn't get a pic of the final product presentation because we were running late for the party but I served it with crackers and Tom's Smoked Fatties.  I topped the hummus with olive oil like suggested as well as 5 or 6 roasted garlic cloves from The Great Pressure Cooker Recipe Test of 2012 - The Stinking Rose.  Those were gobbled up too.