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Easy Roasted Pepper & Garlic Hummus

A creamy hummus recipe bursting with roasted red peppers and pops of garlic. Once you try this recipe you’ll never want to go back to the store-bought stuff.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Easy Roasted Pepper & Garlic Hummus

Why it works: Chickpea and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 813 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Easy Roasted Pepper & Garlic Hummus

Serves 6
Prep5 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

263Calories
8 gProtein
16 gFat
25 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chickpea1/2 cup canned (120g) drained134
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Chickpea + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together813 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Chickpea + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,015 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl butyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Chickpea + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together227 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chickpea, garlic, pepper, olive):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Corianderfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chickpea, garlic, pepper, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.