hommus recipe please

[shell]

although i`ve made hommus,bought hommus,ive never tasted hommus as good as the one i get from the organic market,but at 5 euro`s a small tub its a tad expensive for me,i can`t fathom the ingredients she uses and really dont think she`ll give me the recipe,have you a recipe for great hommus?
thanks

[lsm1066]

Ground chick peas, sesame oil and garlic. That's your lot. Mix until it's the consistency / taste you like.

Lynne

[Clara]

cooked chickpeas blended with tahini, salt, garlic, olive oil and lemon juice until you have it the way you like it - sorry not to be more specific but it really does depend on how you like it.

[contadina]

2 cups of cooked chickpeas (keep 2 tbsp of the cooking water aside if
you've used dried ones or use regular water if using canned)
1 or 2 garlic cloves
2tbsp tahini if using or 4 tbsp yoghurt (I use a bit of both)
Juice of 1 or 2 lemons
2 or 3 tbsp of olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
parsley or mint
paprika

Put chickpeas in blender and whiz to desired consistency (keep some aside to throw in at the end so they stay a bit chunkier if you want). Put everything else in, bar the herbs and paprika and whiz to combine.
Taste and add more of anything that you fancy. Transfer to dish and garnish with herbs, paprika and drizzle with olive oil.

[Green Aura]

Same ingredients - chickpeas, garlic, salt, lemon juice, tahini and olive oil. I blitz the chickpeas while they're still hot with the garlic so it cooks it slightly and takes away that harsh raw garlic taste. Start with a little of the rest of the ingredients and just keep adding and blitzing until you get the taste and texture you like. Then put it in a dish, drizzle with more olive oil and sprinkle with paprika.

[Clara]

I blitz the chickpeas while they're still hot with the garlic so it cooks it slightly and takes away that harsh raw garlic taste.

Good tip, thanks!

Your method is exactly the same as mine, sometimes with completely different results, but then sometimes I'm in a slightly saltier mood and other times I like it really lemony.

[Cassiepod]

The best home made I managed cooked the garlic with the chickpeas and that as declicious... just never got it right again no tahini either....

[eccentric_emma]

There seems to be a bit of a knack to making hummous! But recently I've been getting better at it. I like the idea of putting paprika in it though, and the tip about cooking the garlic through a little. Otherwise I can stink for days after eating it!

[Mal]

I've just never made it often enough to justify buying a big pot of tahini - it only seems to come in big and expensive pots, so the total cost doesn't seem justified next to just going and buying some hummus. I may try again with that non-tahini recipe though.

Good tip on the garlic too. We're all garlic eaters but Mal Jr can be difficult to persuade if it's particularly harsh.

[Clara]

You can usually get Tahini in 300g (or thereabouts) jars, seeing as you need a good dollop of it for hummus it soon goes! We buy 3kg tubs anyhow but it does seem to keep forever.

[Green Aura]

I'll second that - we've had jars for a couple of years. As long as it's got a little oil over the top it seems to keep just fine.