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    Home » Recipes » Miscellaneous

    Daring Cooks Mezze Challenge: Pita Bread and Hummus

    Published by Melissa on February 15, 2010 | Updated July 9, 2018 | 29 Comments

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    The 2010 February Daring COOKs challenge was hosted by Michele of Veggie Num Nums. Michele chose to challenge everyone to make mezze based on various recipes from Claudia Roden, Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Dugid.

    Mezze is a selection of appetizers or small dishes. The challenge requried us to make two mandatory items: pita bread and hummus.

    At first, I had mixed feelings about this challenge. I’d been wanting to make homemade pitas for a while, but I’m not a big fan of hummus and I didn’t think my kids would like it much either. However, we did have the option of substituting nut butters for the sesame paste, and since we liked last month’s peanut dipping sauce, I decided to make a peanut butter hummus.

    My family loves Souvlaki, so it was a logical addition to our mezze, along with Cucumber Raita and a crisp Greek Salad.

    It was such a great meal and it came together quicker and easier than I had imagined. It was so fun watching the pitas puff up in the oven and fresh hot bread is always so much better than packaged. The peanut butter hummus is probably not something I’d make again, but it was delicious. It was so much creamier and less oily than the hummus I have had in the past.

    Thanks Michelle for a really fun challenge! Visit the Daring Kitchen for the Mezze recipes.

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    1. evelyn fortich

      March 11, 2014 at 10:04 am

      thank you for sharing your talents to us..your an inspiration..

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      • Barbara Schieving

        March 12, 2014 at 3:55 pm

        So nice – thanks Evelyn!

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    2. M D

      February 24, 2010 at 9:35 am

      Love pita bread and hummus. Good idea of using peanut butter in hummus. Your pita bread has good a puff. Nice!

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    3. Saveurs et Gourmandises

      February 19, 2010 at 8:43 am

      Beautiful challenge.
      I love mezze et yours looks delicious.
      See soon

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    4. lisaiscooking

      February 18, 2010 at 3:03 pm

      The freshly-baked pita looks so great! I have to give homemade pita a try.

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    5. MeetaK

      February 18, 2010 at 8:06 am

      i love mezze and enjoyed it to the max. in dubai. but am loving your gorgeous colorful interpretation on the DC challenge perfect!

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    6. Soma

      February 17, 2010 at 8:48 pm

      The pitas looks so perfect.. soft, airy little pillows! Beautiful hummus too.

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    7. vickys

      February 17, 2010 at 1:04 pm

      Yum! That looks soo good. I just stuffed my face with my ugly attempt at macarons so something savoury is highly appreciated!

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    8. Katy ~

      February 17, 2010 at 9:28 am

      The pita bread looks terrfic, so nice and puffy. Will have to give that one a try.

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