Submitted 11 months ago by nodsocket@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
Both are pastes made of mashed beans (peanuts and chickpeas are beans.) They also have a similar nutrient profile and are both used for similar dishes.
are both used for similar dishes.
Man, I love hummus and jelly sandwiches. As well as my peanut butter shawarma.
Reese’s hummus cups are to die for.
Mmm, I’m going to melt some hummus over my ice cream.
I know you’re joking, but You’ve just given me the Idea for pad Thai shawarma.
I’d eat it
Tbh, a stoned discovery that I still enjoy is chocolate chip cookies dipped in hummus.
Hold up… Melting peanut butter over ice cream?
How did it take me four decades on this earth to find out that this was an option‽
Treat yourself.
I especially like to use chunky peanut butter.
I addressed this earlier, hummus is used for savory while peanut butter is used for sweet.
Then they aren’t really the same thing.
You could’ve just said they’re both bean pastes, lol
Peanut butter can be made solely with blended peanuts. Hummus is rarely, if ever ime, made with only blended chickpeas and also requires some oil/tahini for even the basic texture.
I was under the impression that, by definition, blended chickpeas were only one ingredient in hummus.
I thought in order to qualify as hummus it had to have blended chickpeas, tahini ( which is just blended sesame seeds, IIRC), oil, and lemon juice.
Now that I think about it, tahini and peanut butter air fairly similar in texture and consistency.
I wonder what Hummus with peanut butter would taste like.
I also wonder what peanut butter with garlic, lemon and cumin would taste like.
Peanut butter with garlic and salt is absolutely awesome.
This is the kind of thinking that leads to tomatoes ending up in fruit salad.
Better hope your dump stat wasn’t charisma, then!
“Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad.
Charisma is being able to sell a tomato based fruit salad.”
Don't knock a classic hummus and jelly sandwich.
Uhh yes… Nothing like a hummus and jelly sandwich
To be fair, depending on how the hummus is seasoned, that might work quite well.
Peanut butter is paired with sweet while Hummus is paired with savory.
So not the same? 😛
Depends on how you season the peanut butter. Store bought peanut butter is often chock full of sugar to make it sweet.
A plain peanut butter with just salt and peanuts goes extremely well with savory. Like on a burger.
A beef bacon cheeseburger with something like havarti, with peanut butter on it is delicious.
And a lamb burger with feta and hummus goes really well together.
Hummus and Hot Pepper Jelly
Do you have taste buds?
Idk man. I’d put peanut butter on a falafel pocket long before I’d have a hummus and jelly sandwich.
Except chocolate hummus. That shit is a totally different category though.
Peanuts and chickpeas are both legumes, just like beans. Therefor I propose that PB&Js amd hummus on bread should all be classified under “Beans on Toast”
This is an example of British colonization.
"beans on bread" I'm on board with; it's only on toast if you toast the bread.
If you want to compare something to peanut butter, check out tahini. It’s basically peanut butter made out of sesame seeds, and even has a (kinda) similar flavor profile. Tahini and grape jam is delicious.
Mixed with cocoa it makes a nice hazelnut-free alternative to Nutella.
I think hummus contains tahini.
It does. And in a pinch, if I run out of tahini, I'll make hummus with peanut butter.
And hollandaise is just bougie mayo.
Peanut butter usually has sugar in it, but it doesn’t have to. Peanuts can be great in savory dishes too, such as Thai peanut sauce. I eat peanut butter with celery and hot sauce.
I am a peanut butter purist, so IMO real peanut butter is just crushed peanuts and maybe some salt. Anything else is just a peanut-flavored spread.
Peanut butter with sugar in it is gross to me. I specifically look for it without any sugar in the ingredients. It doesn’t have to be sweet!
My favorite is from those machines some grocery stores have that grind it up on the spot - nothing but peanut. Definitely shows the extra ingredients like sugars, oils etc in some jarred ones are totally superfluous. Kind of offensive, really, how some major brands remove the peanut oil and replace it with a cheaper oil.
I’ve had that. I thought it was vile, but to each their own. The friend that made it for me loves it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It tastes like… peanuts? What could be vile about it? I guess you could mix in some sugar and other oil if desired, since that’s really all other peanut butters have.
Would you consider mushy peas and refried beans in the same family, too?
No, but they are related. They differ because only hummus and peanut butter are used as condiments/dip as opposed to being eaten alone.
Bean dip or eating refried beans with chips is not unusual at all.
as opposed to being eaten alone.
Allow myself to introduce… Myself.
Pshaw!
If you have never hung around with my cousin, you might think that. But I’ve seen him get stoned as fuck and sit there finger-spooning either hummus or peanut butter into his gaping maw while washing them down with Dr Pepper. Sometimes he changes things up and uses RC cola.
I suspect, when I show him this, he’ll take it as a challenge and try both at the same time.
They add stuff to peanut butter to keep the oil from separating, and they add a bunch of sugar. It’s ground finer too.
I literally never bought pb that isn’t 100% peanuts. Sometimes with a bit of salt. Stop buying junk.
I literally never bought pb that isn’t 100% peanuts. Sometimes with a bit of salt. Stop buying junk.
It’s not automatically “junk”, it’s flavored.
It just happens to be the most popular flavor in the U.S.
I like my spicy red pepper hummus, other people like their extra-oil-and-sugar smooth consistency non-separating peanut butter.
It’s like the difference between corn flakes and frosted flakes.
Some brands do add that stuff, but not all
But the song ‘Humus and jelly time’ doesnr have the same ring to it…
Sung by a dancing fig with a tambourine
I had a delicious Peanut Stew at a West African restaurant. It was savory, hearty and delicious. Peanuts are much more versatile than what they are typically used for
I don’t put mouthfuls of hummus into my mouth
You’re missing out
In the way that ravioli, dumplings, and calzones are sandwiches.
Incorrect, they're all calzones. Quesadillas are sandwiches though
https://cuberule.com/
🤯
Hold up there. If you’re putting sauce on ravioli, that makes it a casserole.
Also yes
i misread this as “Peanut butter and humans are the same thing.” lol 🤣🤣🤣
nigella lawson peanut butter doesn’t go in pasta
hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There’s way more garlic in my hummus
I say tahini and peanut butter are the same thing because a tahini and jelly sandwich is pretty good.
OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, this is the answer. In theory, you could make peanut butter hummus, but you couldn’t make hummus peanut butter.
Baahb@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But you could make chickpeanut butter
scarabic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Basically tahini is hummus peanut butter, or as close as you can get.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The statement implies that there is at least some garlic in your peanut butter.
KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There’s a lot of garlic in mine. You should try it, it’s fucking delicious.