Need a new hummus recipe please

[Eileen101]

I always make my own using the Jamie oliver "best basic hummous" recipe. However giving recently tried a shop brought one, it was so much better...
Does anyone have a great recipe please?
I've tried adjusting various things but just can't get that nice flavour of the shop brought one.

Looking at the recipe, it needs more salt, more tahini, more garlic, more lemon and a really pokey olive oil.

You could also try using Kala Channa (brown/black chickpeas), as they have far more flavour than the standard ones.

Have you read the ingredients on the bought one you like? It’s possibly more oil and salt than you use, or smoother? Did you buy the one in the green pot with the lovely pine nut topping? It’s heavenly. I always make my own but not to a specific recipe so I can’t really help.

If it’s a texture thing and you’re not a purist I often use butter or cannelini beans which are softer so make a smoother product.

Whatever you do I don’t recommend Raymond Blanc’s recipe. Adore him though I do, he’s the uncle I always wanted, it’s really awful and I made a huge bucket and then made myself eat all of it and it was depressing.

I honestly think the secret to good hummus is lots of olive oil, more than I’m always willing to put in 😄, plus as PP said, loads of garlic, lemon and Tahini.

I use Good Food hummus recipe. I add more cumin, salt and lemon juice but I find it better with dried chickpeas prepared and cooked as per instructions. No oil in this recipe so a lot lower in fat than the olive oil recipe ones. I drizzle pomegranate molasses over it.

Have you tried ottolenghi?

ottolenghi.co.uk/pages/recipes/hummus-recipe?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAABIOY2-f37blNYNYQB8ZNemU6h03l&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIv6qcmrnKhwMVHJlQBh3PlybUEAAYASAAEgKpavD_BwE

this is the recipe I have used and it is stunning. I think the problem with many hummus recipes is too many people view it as a low calorie 'healthy' dip, when it should be really quite high in fat and super luxurious in texture.

Thanks for the tips everyone!

Cookie and Kate’s recipe is the best. Delicious.

No olive oil and you have to peel the chickpeas!!! Quite therapeutic actually. Smoothest hummus you can imagine.
littlegreenspoon.ie/2018/05/14/next-level-hummus/

I tried a recipe from YouTube where the chef simmers tinned chickpeas with a teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda and then blanches them in cold water to remove the skins. This gives the humus a finer 'silkier' texture- which I think is more like the shop bought stuff.
Here's a link

After a number of failed, bland attempts, I've had success with this recipe:
https://www.everydaymaven.com/instant-pot-hummus/#wprm-recipe-container-47410

Y^es, I think that original recipe is way too stingy with the tahini. I use half a small jar with one tin of chickpeas! You also need to be generous with the salt and the lemon. And as someone else pointed out - this isn't a low fat snack. It needs the olive oil.

I also saw a recommendation to boil even tinned or jarred chickpeas with bicarb for a few minutes and have been meaning to try it as my hummus always comes out a bit less creamy than I'd like so pleased to hear it works for others.