Hummus | Pita bread | Grilled vegetables

Ingredients:

Pita Bread

100 g All purpose flour

4 g Instant yeast

2 g Salt

5 g Sugar

45 ml Water (45C)

Hummus

250 g Canned Chickpeas, drained

80 g Tahini

8 g Garlic, minced

40 ml Lemon juice

40 ml Extra virgin olive oil

50 ml Water

4 g Cumin powder

Black pepper and salt to taste

Grilled vegetables

250 g Eggplant

300 g Courgette

100 g Sweet pointed pepper

50 ml Olive oil

Black pepper and salt to taste

Garnish

Dash Paprika powder or Sumac

Extra virgin olive oil

Cilantro leaves

Method:

To make pita bread add salt, sugar, and yeast to flour and mix them together.

Add water and olive oil and bring the dough together, cover the dough with plastic wrap, and let it rest for 10 minutes.

After letting it rest, transfer the dough onto your work surface and knead it for 2 minutes.

Shape it into a ball and put it back into the bowl, cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let the dough rise for an hour at room temperature.

After one hour, deflate the dough and divide it into 4 pieces, shape each piece into a ball and cover them with plastic and let them rest for 10 minutes.

Roll out each ball into a circle about 15cm wide. Cover them with plastic and let them rest for 10 minutes.

Heat a crepe pan over high heat, Place the first pita bread on it. wait until bubbles appear all over the dough, flip it and bake it for about 20 seconds.

To make hummus, add chickpeas, lemon juice, olive oil, water, and minced garlic into the food processor and blend them finely.

Once the chickpea mixture is smooth and creamy add the tahini and cumin powder, and continue blending until the hummus is silky and soft.

Season it to your taste.

Transfer it to a bowl and keep it refrigerated.

To make grilled vegetables, cut them into small chunks and toss them with olive oil, salt and pepper.

Preheat a grill pan over high heat and grill the vegetables until they are tender and charred.

To Plate hummus, start by spreading it in a circular or oval pattern on a flat plate. Use the back of a spoon to make a well in the center of the hummus.

Add grilled vegetables to the other side of the plate and place the pita bread in the corner.

Drizzle the hummus with olive oil and sprinkle with paprika powder or sumac.

garnish the grilled vegetables with cilantro leaves.

Enjoy.

Ingredients:

50 g Basil 

5 g Garlic

60 g Pine nuts

40 g Parmesan cheese

50 ml Extra virgin olive oil

Salt and black pepper to taste

Method:

Add basil into a food processor and pulse several times. Add garlic and toasted pine nuts into basil and pulse a few more times.

Add grated parmesan cheese into the food processor and pulse. Add the olive oil and pulse several times.

A the end season it with black pepper and salt.

Enjoy.

Ingredients:

45 g Basil

15 g Chives

4 g Garlic

40 g Capers

250 g Butter

Zest of a lemon

Salt and black pepper

Method:

Add basil, capers, chives and garlic into a food processor and blend them fine, then zest a lemon and add it into the mixture along with black pepper and salt.

Add a few cubes of butter at a time and blend them together until it's smooth and creamy.

To shape it into a cylinder try to use a silicone mate or an oven tray as your working surface and place your plastic wrap on top of it,  this way plastic wrap will stick to your work surface and makes it easier to roll.

Take half of the butter mixture and place it on the plastic wrap, roll it over, pull it back and then push it forward, this way your butter comes to a cylinder shape little by little. Be patient!!

It takes a few minutes, simply tie a knot on each side and do the same with the other half of the mixture. , put them in a freezer for about half an hour before slice them.

Enjoy.