Fred's Famous Hummus

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1 (12 ounce) can chickpeas
• 1/4 cup olive oil (more or less)
• 1 medium onion
• 4 -6 cloves garlic
• 1/2 green pepper (optional)
• 1 -2 dried hot pepper, of choice
• kosher salt or sea salt, to taste
• fresh cracked black pepper, to taste

Recipe

• 1 heat oil in a fry pan.
• 2 ruff chop the onions and garlic and add to the oil.
• 3 if using the green pepper, dice it and add it too.
• 4 add the hot pepper and give everything a good toss.
• 5 keep the heat low and cook it all slow.
• 6 stir occasionally and press down on the pepper into the oil but do not break it up.
• 7 continue to cook until golden (ok, caramelized).
• 8 remove from heat.
• 9 drain and rinse the chick peas.
• 10 dump them into a blender.
• 11 remove the hot pepper from the oil.
• 12 dump the rest into the blender.
• 13 add 6 or 7 cranks of black pepper.
• 14 purée.
• 15 slowly add water until you get a preferred consistency.
• 16 stop and taste, add salt carefully to taste.
• 17 if it is not spicy enough, add back pieces of the hot pepper and blend some more.