Results from yesterday's attempt at hummus - it was terrible!
I'm tempted to be a bad workman and blame my tools i.e in this case, blame the recipe but I must be honest and say that it was my own fault - I was impatient.
According to the recipe, I'm supposed to soak the chickpeas overnight (hummus is actually a cool foreign way of saying chickpea paste) , then boil them until they are soft. I waited for about 15 minutes and decided that they were soft enough which they were not!
That's where all my problems began because I had to blend them until they turned into a paste and they simply REFUSED to turn into a paste!!
I ended up with hard, lumpy hummus which I tried to rescue by adding olive oil and lemon juice but to no avail. It remained lumpy and tasted like mud. Awful!
The only thing I managed to achieve was to totally waste about 200ml of Extra Virgin Olive Oil which is like saying I threw away a bar of gold because that's what Extra Virgin Olive Oil is worth in Dar if you consider what it costs!
I'm not going to attempt hummus again....besides, The Engineer told me that during Ramadhan, Al Basha is open at lunch time on weekdays. Woo hoo!
1 comment:
Apparently the chickpeas in a can works the best. But I haven't tried it yet - you know my cooking skills.
Girlfriend
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