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White Bean and Edamame Hummus Recipe

White Bean and Edamame Hummus
Difficulty: Easy | Total Time: | Makes: About 2 1/4 cups

Though traditional hummus is a snacking favorite, it can get a little boring. Try this Asian-inspired recipe that swaps in cannellini beans and edamame for the garbanzo beans. Instead of tahini, a touch of sesame oil adds a nutty, toasty flavor to round out this healthy, green-hued dip. Spread it on your next sandwich or use it as a dip for crispy lavash or taro chips.

What to buy: Shelled edamame are sold two ways—cooked or uncooked. If you buy the cooked, frozen ones, all you have to do is thaw them for this recipe. If you buy the uncooked ones, follow the cooking directions on the package.

This recipe was featured as part of our Make Your Own Veggie Chips project.

INGREDIENTS
  • 1 (15-ounce) can cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
  • 1 1/2 cups shelled, cooked edamame, thawed if frozen
  • 2 medium garlic gloves, coarsely chopped
  • 1/4 cup water, plus more as needed
  • 3 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice (from about 2 medium lemons), plus more as needed
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt, plus more as needed
  • 1/4 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
  • Freshly ground black pepper
  • 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped fresh cilantro
  • Taro Chips, for serving (optional)
INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Place the cannellini beans, edamame, garlic, water, lemon juice, olive oil, salt, and sesame seed oil in a food processor fitted with a blade attachment. Season with pepper and process until smooth, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. If the dip is too thick, pulse in more water, a tablespoon at a time, until the desired consistency is reached.
  2. Transfer to a medium bowl, add the cilantro, and stir to combine. Taste and season with more salt or lemon juice as needed. Serve with Taro Chips, if using.
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  • White Bean and Edamame Hummus Recipe
    2

    For a potluck, I made two dips from Chow: the Roasted Red Pepper-Feta Dip (http://www.chow.com/recipes/21690-roasted-red-pepperfeta-dip) and the White Bean and Edamame Hummus Recipe (http://www.chow.com/recipes/29592-white-bean-and-edamame-hummus). The first was outstanding, even though I used jarred peppers (with a little of their liquid) and added some garlic. If I were using fresh peppers would probably add a little lemon juice. Definitely a new go-to dip. The other was just weird. Sounds great, but seemed incredibly bland to start. Perhaps the fault of my edamame, which admittedly have(/has?) been in the freezer since July. So I started playing with it, adding more pepper, cilantro & sesame oil, then tahini, then hot sauce, then something else I can’t remember (it was a few weeks ago). Believe it or not, didn’t get much worse, but didn’t get much better. Politely successful at the potluck.

  • White Bean and Edamame Hummus Recipe
    5

    delicious - hummus or a dip - it's different and we only substituted lemon oil and added some additional lemon. we will make it again and again!

  • White Bean and Edamame Hummus Recipe
    5

    Quick call the whaaaambulance over the snobby "well technically this is..." Let's just call this delicious! I just recommend starting with less water, like 1/8 of a cup and adding until desired consistency . Also try adding some smoked black pepper (McCormick's Smokehouse Black Pepper)or Smoked Paprika. We have substituted parsly for cilantro at times and it works very well. Just be sure to use the sesame oil and not too much. Find that little 1/4 teaspoon measure in the back of the drawer and use it. It can completely over power the entire dish. This is a great base to make they your own special hummus. Just be sure to use the edamame, cannellini beans, garlic and sesame oil. Then add whatever you heart desires. Trust me no one will know or care that you didn't use chickpeas. They will just love it and ask you for the recipe.

  • White Bean and Edamame Hummus Recipe
    3

    Agree with Ghazi, while it sounds delicious, this is a dip, not hummus! It's not hummus if there aren't any chickpeas ;) Also, hummus doesn't have to be boring. There are many things you can do to change the taste (Like include spinach or fresh basil) to change it up.

  • White Bean and Edamame Hummus Recipe
    4

    It seems this dip is delicious, will try it. Allow me to make a language correction. In Arabic, hummus translates garbanzo beans and the name of the dip really is hummus b'tahini, which translates garbanzos with tahini, literally.

  • White Bean and Edamame Hummus Recipe
    5

    This is great I totally found a similar recipe at http://www.chefmorgan.com/soybean-hummus but they both sound great.

  • What is the nutritional info on this recipe? Thank you in advance.

  • interesting! I'll have to give this a shot. I love edamame and hummus. :) http://unhipsquirrel.blogspot.com

  • This calls for an immediate grocery store run!!! Sounds good.

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