Houmous.

[Serin]

Am I being unreasonable to think there must be more than one blimmin houmous factory in the whole of the UK?
Its never coming back is it ?
I've tried making my own and it's a faff (and horrible).

Where are you that there is no hummous?

There is gazillions of it in London

Just bought 2 packs of it in the NE this morning - is there a shortage that I haven't heard about???

What do you find a faff? I make at least one lot a week, takes about 3 minutes, cheap as chips, you can tweak it depending on what you fancy and you get way more from a tin of chickpeas than in a bought tub.

Overnight chickpeas in water
Boil it
Blend it with garlic and tahini sauce and lemon juice and cumin powder

Voila

Serve with olive oil and olives

I'm in the NW, there has been none for weeks here, since the salmonella scare.
Well there is the sabra brand but it's flying off the shelves, even at £2 a pot.

Just googled. Apparently the company that supplies pretty much all the supermarkets with hummus has issued a recall notice due to a salmonella scare. My local Asda had no own brand hummus on Friday, only that posher brand. Can't remember what it's called.

It was out of my local area for a while after a recall (maybe listeria??) but is back now.

Tesco is chock full of the stuff (NE).

Hope it's fine as I've demolished a whole tub this weekend.

AmbitiouslyFit
Cumin?
Maybe that's what mine missing.
Will add cumin!

Also, why are there so many different ways to spell it?

Our Tesco, Aldi, Sainsburys and Lidl had none today.
Not even Spar

If you make your own you need loads more garlic paste, lemon juice, salt and cumin than you think you do. Add them all in small doses until you get the right blend. Also, weirdly, the magic ingredient for consistency is water. Took me years wondering why my home made houmous was so sludgy to realise adding water until it is silky smooth is the answer.

Ocado seem to have plenty. Or what about making something like pea and garlic puree, that wouldn't be as much faff as chickpeas.

I'm NW too. Asda were out but Aldi had some

Also, why are there so many different ways to spell it?

Because it's an Arabic word and obviously spelt in the Arabic alphabet. When Arabic words are translated into the modern Latin alphabet spellings can be very loose because you are approximating a sound that exists in a different alphabet.

Butter bean hummous is amazing.

Co-op hummus wasn’t on the recall according to dh.

Who moose?

newdeer Thanks for that, never thought of adding water.
Glad to hear Aldi had some.

Tesco wasnt either.

It is Herland! I’ve been switching things up lately with my pulses and butter beans make an amazing one.

Costco do a huge pot for something like £3.49.

I'm in Scotland and there was none in Aldi or Tesco yesterday. My four year old has been asking for it all day! Will probably be able to get some mid week now the weekend rush is over.

Don't add plain water. Save the chickpea water when you empty the tin and add that.

Lancashire here, Sainsbury's had loads in