Anyone else made Delia's hummus? I just had a go and it was absolutely ......

[neolara]

revolting! Tasted of tahini paste and nothing else.

I've checked out a Jamie Oliver recipe for hummus. He has about 20ml of tahini for 340g of chickpeas. Delia has 150ml (!!!) of tahini for 110g of chickpeas.

So Delia's recipe has roughly 22 times the amount of tahini than Jamie! Can't be right surely?

Delia's hummous is horrible, I never use her recipe, I always use the Rose Elliott one.

Made some the other day that had 2tbsp with 400g of chickpeas (was yummy).

Could it be a typo? Maybe she means 15ml?

surely a misprint?

Her recipe is 5 tablespoons which is approx 70 ml. Have you written down the recipe wrong?

I was cooking straight from her Vegetarian cookbook so didn't copy it down wrong. I was so convinced it must have been a misprint that I looked up the recipe on Delia online - it's the same proportions as in my book. Yuk, yuk, yuk!

i hate tahini, never use any. chickpeas, cooking water, lemon, cumin, salt. sometimes beetroot or roasted pepper.

Start with a tsp of tahini and add to your taste - you really don't need much. Cumin is definitely important and if I am feeling very foodie I toast cumin seeds, grind them up and that gives a great smoky flavour...

Well what do you expect? Google a proper middle-eastern recipe for humous if you want it to taste of the real thing, rather than relying on the like of Delia and Jamie

Did you see her making it on the bizarre new programme? Frozen chickpeas but freshly squeezed lemon and all mixed to make something prounounced "WHO-mouse". Dh nearly wet himself.

Ooooh get you OMDB

hi i am middle-eastern and have been raised on hummous, there is no way you could put that much tahini in it, it is absolutely not supposed to be like that.

My hummus never quite works.

Is this recipe part of her cheating range? She'll favour cheap (but vile) ingredients; maybe that's why?

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come on love, don't take one thousand and one nights...

I don't put tahini in mine, cos I never have any. I just boil the chickpeas (with butterbeans sometimes, makes it really smoothand creamy) and whizz up with loads of garlic, lemonOil (just cos it's there, olive otherwise) lemon jiuce, salt, chilli sometimes....

Tastes great.

c'mon, sheherezade

don't know why we're waiting here, sheherezade is the archetypal tease

i use sesame oil instead of olive oil in mine. it tastes so much better.

Beetroot in hummus??
FFS!!

this thread reminded me to get a move on with using up my supply of tahini.

Made some today and it tastes fab.

Whizz up a can of chickpeas with 2 tablespoons of tahini, 1 lemon and a good glug of olive oil, add more oil if it still looks dry and repeat until the consistency looks right. Oh, add a bit of white pepper as well.

I'm sure sheharezade's is superior though!

BOIL the chickpeas? I just chuck a tin in the blender+ lemon +olive oil+garlic. Sometimes without bothering to rinse chickpeas .

Didn't Delia have to wait to defrost her chickpeas for her hoomoose?

I hate tahini too. I always make mine without tahini.

nice with fresh coriander and parsley too.

or smoked paprika.

Coriander??
Parsley??

PAPRIKA???

Jesus H Christ.