6 Minute Meal: Michael Solomonov's Hummus with Tehina Sauce

The Meal: James Beard award-winning chef Michael Solomonov's 5-MINUTE HUMMUS WITH QUICK TEHINA SAUCE is excerpted from ISRAELI SOUL 2018 by Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook. Reproduced by permission of Rux Martin Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

5-MINUTE HUMMUS WITH QUICK TEHINA SAUCE

Makes about 4 cups (4 servings)

QUICK TEHINA SAUCE

1 garlic clove

Juice of 1 lemon

1 (16-ounce) jar tehina

1 tablespoon kosher salt

1 teaspoon ground cumin

1 to 1 cups ice water

Chef Tip: The ice water will give your hummus a fluffy consistency

HUMMUS

2 (15-ounce) cans chickpeas, drained and rinsed

Chef Tip: Use organic canned chickpeas rather than dried. That way you know the chickpeas were cooked at their peak of freshness.

1. MAKE THE TEHINA SAUCE: Nick off a piece of the garlic (about a quarter of the clove) and drop it into a food processor.

2. Squeeze the lemon juice into the food processor. Pour the tehina on top, making sure to scrape it all out of the container, and add the salt and cumin.

3. Process until the mixture looks peanut-buttery, about 1 minute.

4. Stream in the ice water, a little at a time, with the motor running. Process just until the mixture is smooth and creamy and lightens to the color of dry sand. Now you have Quick Tehina Sauce!

Chef Tip: The sauce will keep in the refrigerator for 5-6 days and can be used on everything from meat to fish and potatoes. At Chef Solomonov's Zahav Restaurant in Society Hill, he uses the sauce on a number of dishes on the menu.

5. MAKE THE HUMMUS: Add the chickpeas to the tehina sauce and process for about 3 minutes, scraping the sides of the bowl as you go, until the chickpeas are completely blended and the hummus is smooth and uniform in color.

Chef Tip: The longer you blend it in the food processor, the creamier your hummus will be

Chef Tip: You can eat as is or garnish with fresh parsley and paprika.

When plating, dollop the hummus into a bowl and use the back of a spoon in a back and forth motion to create a well in the center.

Drizzle extra virgin olive oil into the well then grab a pita and, as they say in Israel, wipe some hummus.

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