You can find my original hummus recipe in this post but it was the array of hummus permutations at the grocery yesterday that prompted me to make a video of the process. How many times can I say it? Cook. Beans. From. Dry.
The selection yesterday had a range of prices (and flavours which you can just as easily do yourself) but the cheapest of the lot was 300g for $5.99. Granted I see those tubs of dense, industrial stodge go on markdown often but even at half price, it’s still ridiculous. Homemade as I do here with dry beans made a batch three times that size for a sum total of $0.42. Forty two cents a batch! (no, I wasn’t channelling Douglas Adams with my I-ching calculator when I did those sums). Do the extended math and that means the store is hovering around a 2000% markup even at discount sale prices. Even if that’s not enough motivation for you to soak a few beans, the flavour and texture differences between fresh and store-bought should convince you. Make a batch already.
