Showing posts with label hummus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hummus. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Name that citrus

One of my mom's patients brought her some citrus from their tree. Can you guess what these are?

They're called rangpur limes, and they are just as orange on the inside:

Although they're called limes, these fruits are actually a very sour mandarin orange. The taste is described to be something between a tangerine and a lemon. To be honest, all I really tasted was the acidity.

So you might be wondering, what did I make with these? Hummus. Yeah, I know it sounds like a weird way to use exotic citrus, but I really wanted hummus and didn't have any lemons around. I ended up using the juice from two of the limes, it gave the hummus a nice citrus flavor. I still have one more, I'm thinking a vinaigrette is in order, maybe with some orange olive oil.

I loosely followed the hummus recipe in the Barefoot Contessa cookbook.