Hummus with Spiced Floor Beef Recipe

This creamy hummus with spiced floor beef, feta cheese, and recent mint is completely scrumptious! It’s the right appetizer or flip it into a lightweight, high-protein meal.

Our long-time readers understand how a lot we love our recipe for home made hummus (shared a few years in the past). We’re all the time looking out for brand spanking new methods to get pleasure from it, which is the place this hummus with floor beef recipe got here from.

We take hummus and pile on numerous spiced floor beef, crumbled feta cheese, and recent mint. It’s further tasty, straightforward to do, and works rather well with home made pita bread, this faster flatbread, or served on prime of salad for a lightweight protein-forward meal.

Key Components

• Hummus: I extremely suggest our easy hummus recipe, however be at liberty to make use of your favourite store-bought model.
• Floor Beef: Search for floor beef with some fats (85/15 or near it’s excellent). Floor lamb can also be glorious.
• Spices: We’re going for a Center-Jap vibe with the spice combination, so that you’ll mix cumin, cinnamon, cayenne, coriander, and allspice. These make the meat actually scrumptious with an nearly intoxicating heat spice.
• Broth: Use beef inventory, hen inventory, veggie inventory, or, in case you are in a pinch, water. We simply want slightly liquid to make our beef juicier.
• Feta and Mint: I really like the salty pop of feta cheese and the recent taste of mint. That mentioned, you could possibly skip this altogether and add a spoonful of home made tzatziki sauce on prime, as an alternative.

Discover the total recipe with measurements beneath.

My Suggestions for Making Hummus with Spiced Beef

Tip 1: Don’t miss the chance to brown your beef. When cooking floor beef, I prefer to press it down into my skillet and resist the urge to stir it till the underside is properly browned. When it’s, I stir and add my spice combination.

Tip 2: Season the meat rather well. Consider the bottom beef as a topper to the hummus, so it’s okay if it’s very properly seasoned. That’s a very good factor. You’ll possible be having fun with this with flatbread and scooping up a few of the hummus with the meat for every chunk, so whereas the meat by itself could appear too seasoned, as soon as it’s all put collectively, it really works.

And there you go! In order for you extra methods to boost hummus, see our roasted crimson pepper hummus (a reader favourite!).