Homemade Spinach Hummus with Almonds

Ingredients minus the spinach & almonds

I made hummus for the first time the other day. I came up with my own version because I didn't want to add the tahini and instead wanted to use almonds (it's what I had) and I wanted to add spinach.  Unfortunately there aren't as many pictures as I would have liked. I had full intentions on taking pictures each step of the way but since it was my first time making it and I was improvising along the way I forgot to take pictures for the most part. This is what went into mine - everything except the chickpeas are an estimate... I'm so bad about measuring...

1 can chickpeas
1/4 cup water (depending on the consistency you are looking for)
2 tbs olive oil
1/2 cup chopped almonds
1/2 cup spinach
3 tbs lemon juice (or to taste)
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cayenne (you can easily leave this out or add more if you want more of a punch)
Garlic to taste

Chop the almonds in your food processor, adding oil while chopping. Add in the remainder of the ingredients and let it blend together until it is the consistency you are looking for. I wanted some chunks of spinach so I added my spinach last and just blended it enough to get it all mixed in. You will want to make sure there is enough liquid in your food processor or your hummus won't get very smooth and you might run the risk of burning up your motor. If you do use the almonds you probably won't get the super smoothness that some hummus has - if you want it completely smooth you may want to use almond butter (you can easily make your own almond butter).

I left mine a bit chunky

I had some on my homemade tortillas from the other day (pay not attention to the un-roundness - *yes, yes I said un-roundness* - of it.

In case you were wondering the helper in which I call my daughter was doing...