Hi my name is Dianna Walker, and I work
for the University of Nevada, Reno
Extension in the 4-H program. You can
see my little clover here on my shirt.
4H does youth programming
throughout all of Clark County, and
during this series that I'm doing "Quarantine Cooking," I'm kind of covering things
that are you might have on hand that are
easy to do with your kids
and one of the things I noticed during
quarantine is that I'd go to the grocery
store and all the dried beans were
gone, and a lot of the canned beans
except for garbanzo beans. Those were
always on the shelves which is so
interesting to me because that's what
you can make hummus out of, and hummus is
so yummy, and it's high in protein. It has
really good fiber, and if you make naan
with it, you've got almost a complete
protein kind of like a rice and beans
but it's hummus and naan. So I'm going to
teach you how to make a really quick
five-minute hummus without tahini. I do
love putting tahini in hummus, but it is
quarantine, and that's something that I
don't have on hand. So things you'll need
for this recipe. One fifteen ounce can of
garbanzo beans, a little bit of water
like two to four tablespoons, just until
we get a good smooth consistency, two
tablespoons, oh sorry about that, of extra
virgin olive oil, a couple of...a
tablespoon of lemon juice whether you
have a lemon or just the the bottled
stuff is fine, a clove of garlic, some ground cumin and
some salt. That's pretty much it. So
before we get going, I'm going to open
up this can and and make some hummus
with you. So you'll notice when you open
your can of beans up and you drain it, on
all of these little garbanzo beans,
you can squeeze it and a little shell, 
kind of a casing will come off, and even
though those are good, those are high in
fiber, they kind of don't give us a good
consistency for our hummus and so if you
have time or if you have little hands
that are looking for something to do
during quarantine, this is a good thing
for them to just kind of squeeze
through these and take off all those
little kind of shells. So from this, we
are going to add two tablespoons
extra-virgin olive oil, and you don't
have to remove the little shells off of
them. It just makes for a smoother
consistency. If I'm in a rush, I usually
don't actually. So let's see. We're gonna
do one tablespoon of lemon juice. I'm
gonna squeeze that squeeze it right into
my hand. That gives it a little bit of life.
I'm gonna use a little bit more of this lemon because that didn't have a ton of juice in it.
You can use either a fresh lemon
or you can use the bottled stuff on the
shelf. I've used both, and it's been fine.
You're gonna use one clove of minced
garlic. I like to kind of smash up my
garlic first to release some of the
flavors. That's a personal preference.
Normally in a recipe for hummus right
now, you would also add the tahini. Tahini
is like a sesame seed paste, and it is
good, and it gives great flavor, but
that's not something that you always
have on hand, and so I often make it
without that so I'm gonna add that garlic in. We're going to add three-quarters of
a teaspoon of ground cumin. This gives it
a ton of flavor and smokiness It's so
yummy. So three-quarters of a teaspoon of cumin. Yum, it smells so good just opening that and
a quarter to a half of a teaspoon of salt
So we've got everything in a food
processor. You don't have to use a food
processor. You can use a blender. You can mash it with your hand if you don't have
anything like that. It just won't give
you as fine of a inconsistency, but if you
want something rustic, it will still
taste really good. People will often add
things like roasted red peppers right
now before you blend it, and that's
really yummy if you have that on hand,
but I'm just making kind of the basic
thing just because it's during quarantine. So I'm going to process this together.
and we're getting a good
You'll notice it looks pretty thick, and this is when you add two to four tablespoons of water and
that'll kind of thin that out so I'm gonna add that in as I process this
nice and slowly so you'll want to watch it
a little bit more water
Feel like we've got a good consistency there
and I'm gonna taste it. Tastes so good. This would be really good
like I said with naan bread. I'm gonna
do naan bread next week so you'll have
hummus in your fridge ready to go.
Thank you for taking the time today to
see what 4-H youth programming is all
about. Throughout all of Clark County, we
do youth programming to help make the
best better for our kids' heads, hearts,
hands, and health. Until next time, bye bye!
