This was odd. I bought this 'hummus' online.
It claims to be made in Lebanon, but it's not really what I call hummus; it's more part of a hummus making kit. It contains a paste of chickpeas and tahini with some water (thanks, I have enough of that already), salt (ditto), acidity regulator (I'm right out of that) and citric acid (I have lots of that hidden inside lemons and oranges etc.)
The multilingual instructions (hummus needs instructions?) tell me to add olive oil and lemon juice. You know the ingredients for hummus. Before doing so, I tasted the paste straight from the can. It tasted hummus-like but had very little salt which was made up for it being very acidic (even before I added any lemon juice). Their regulator has been deregulated!
I added olive oil as instructed but skipped the lemon juice. I also regulated the saline requirement.
I then ate it with this so-called Arabic bread (also bought online).
The bread was good and the hummus wasn't terrible; it wasn't great. It wasn't hummus!
It didn't have the lemon taste I like with my hummus, but there was no way I was going to up the acid.
Still, it was pretty cheap. $2 (USD) for the 180g can inc. delivery. I won't be buying it again though.
