I grew up in a Lebanese household where Hummus was a staple dish. After getting married my wife started buying prepared hummus in the supermarket When the price got up to around $5 bucks for a small round container of the more popular commercial brands , we decided to try making it at home with the food processor.
I agree wit all of the previous posts that : a. it's much cheaper to make it at home. and b.
it tastes much better than store bought.
We did make one slight alteration to the basic recipe: because Tahini is rather expensive, we tried substituting penut butter.in small quantities. Result = slightly different flavor but still delicious.
I can see from tha above comments that we have not committed a cardinal sin by using PB instead of Tahini.

I grew up in a Lebanese household where Hummus was a staple dish. After getting married my wife started buying prepared hummus in the supermarket When the price got up to around $5 bucks for a small round container of the more popular commercial brands , we decided to try making it at home with the food processor.
I agree with all of the previous recipe posts that : a. it's much cheaper to make it at home. and b.
it tastes much better than store bought.
We did make one slight alteration to the basic recipe: because Tahini is rather expensive, we tried substituting penut butter.in small quantities. Result = slightly different flavor but still delicious. I gather from tha above responses that using PB is a no-no; How can I offset the taste, ie: extra lemon-juice, tabasco sauce, etc.?

I grew up in a Lebanese household where Hummus was a staple dish. After getting married my wife started buying prepared hummus in the supermarket When the price got up to around $5 bucks for a small round container of the more popular commercial brands , we decided to try making it at home with the food processor.
I agree wit all of the previous posts that : a. it's much cheaper to make it at home. and b.
it tastes much better than store bought.
We did make one slight alteration to the basic recipe: because Tahini is rather expensive, we tried substituting penut butter.in small quantities. Result = slightly different flavor but still delicious.
Any comments on the use of peanut butter?