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Fava Bean Hummous with Cumin
Author
From "Vegetable Literacy" by Deborah Madison
Ingredients
1/2
cup
shelled fava beans
1
small clove garlic
, chopped
1/2
tsp
ground cumin
2
tbsp
olive oil plus more for drizzling
Sea salt
Fresh lemon juice
Instructions
Bring a small pot of water to boil. Immerse the beans into the boiling water for 1 minute, drain, and refresh in a bowl of cool water.
Pinch the skin off each bean.
Put the skinned fava beans a food processor and add the garlic, cumin, oil and 1/4 tsp salt. Pulse until the beans are roughly puréed.
Taste for salt.
Add the lemon juice, starting with 1 teaspoon and working up from there. Scrape the purée into a bowl.
Just before serving, drizzle oil over the surface and add a sprinkle of toasted cumin seeds.