I've seen a few hummus recipes in rfc and have always wanted to
try it. Unfortunately, I'm too chicken to make something myself
if I have no idea what it will taste like (I don't recall ever
eating a chickpea). So today at the stupidmarket, I bought
something called "Athenos Hummus & Pita", and gave it a try.

The first thing I noticed was the smell of cumin. No problem, I
like cumin. Then I tasted the hummus -- it was good, but it seemed
to have a bitter and/or sour after taste that I didn't care for.
Is that normal, or is it perhaps a product of all the various gunk
that one finds in store bought stuff?

Here's a list of the ingredients:

Chickpeas, water, olive oil, tahini (sesame), garlic, lemon juice
concentrate, salt, high fructose corn syrup, contains less than 0.5%
of spice, sorbic acid and sodium benzoate as preservatives, phosphoric
acid, natural flavors.

Comments? Thanks in advance... :-)


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j*ni p. ~ mom, gamer, novice cook ~
...fish heads, fish heads, eat them up, yum!