Tuesday, March 19, 2013

My Ninja food processor

I bought a Ninja food processor right before Christmas using my Kohl's cash from Black Friday shopping. (This was my first year doing that and I did get some good deals--but I'll never be the shop all night or wake up at 3 a.m. type. I wandered in in the afternoon and got what I got.)

I've used it a few times and I liked it but for some reason it took me forever to finally make hummus, the number one reason I wanted a blender/food processor. Last night I made THE BEST HUMMUS I HAVE EVER MADE. Yes, it really was worth all capital letters.
I googled a random recipe and tweaked it to:

Classic cumin garlic hummus
Ingredients:
2 cups canned garbanzo beans, drained, rinsed
1/3 cup tahini
1 fresh lemon, juiced
1 teaspoon salt
several cloves garlic (I used four because they were smallish)
couple tablespoons olive oil
2 or more tsp cumin

Blend until smooth. Add water during blending if it's too thick. You can drizzle with the olive oil (or just put it in the mix, like I did) on top and sprinkle with paprika if you want.

Here's the Ninja I bought. It really does a good job with the blending. In fact, the first time I tried to chop onions in it, it turned them into juice. (You can rough chop with it but you have to be careful to do just a few pulses at a time.) I also like the fact that you can take out the blades and use the container like a pitcher--even put the cover back on and put it in the fridge. (Although it wouldn't be perfectly sealed.)



The coolest part is that it was on sale and I used my Kohl's cash so it was cheap. (You get vouchers you can spend in the store when you spend money--you have to come back later and spend it within a specific time.) I can't remember how much I spent but I think it was somewhere around $20.

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