OwlRightsReserved
VIP Member
Oh lads it was really bad.
Started with a can of very high quality chickpeas from the corner shop when I took the dog for a stroll round the village green. The cat scared me when I was taking this so apols for the worst photo in history.
Would also like to note that I didn't use the whole can because I didn't want to be wasteful, so the other half have gone into a couscous salad with blanched red onion, fresh chilli, tomatoes, cucumber, garlic and roasted aubergine. Because I enjoy foods with texture and flavour.
She doesn't specify how much mayonnaise in proportion to chickpeas, so I guessed. The aquafaba loomed in the background.
I began my first blend without any aquafaba.
Because I'm terrible I did actually try some at this early stage and have to say that it was just as you'd expect from the following picture: gritty mayonnaise with a heavy dose of chickpea and self-loathing. I blended on.
Again, it was just a very mayo-y chickpea purée, so I decided at this point I would try adding some aquafaba. I've made good vegan mayonnaise with aquafaba before, so I was hopeful.
It did look like absolute dogshit though.
But, we blend on, boats against the current and all that. I had zero confidence in this recipe to begin with but fraus, I was disappointed.
Honestly the most astonishingly bad thing I've made. This is neither stretchy, nor is it hummus. I would describe it as a wet chickpea mayo. The addition of the aquafaba did make it less mayo-y, but only on first taste; the aftertaste was appalling. It didn't have any of the lovely tahini, garlic or lemon flavours that you might get in a homemade hummus. Did have flavours of what I imagine a chicken's arse tastes like, though, so if that's your thing then fire on in.
It also slopped off the spoon. It's got the texture of a bog.
I was going to save it for Mr Owl's return from the beach to get his reaction for you all but I think I love him too much to subject him to it.
Jack's a menace of the first water because this was rank. I'm having wine.
Started with a can of very high quality chickpeas from the corner shop when I took the dog for a stroll round the village green. The cat scared me when I was taking this so apols for the worst photo in history.
Would also like to note that I didn't use the whole can because I didn't want to be wasteful, so the other half have gone into a couscous salad with blanched red onion, fresh chilli, tomatoes, cucumber, garlic and roasted aubergine. Because I enjoy foods with texture and flavour.
She doesn't specify how much mayonnaise in proportion to chickpeas, so I guessed. The aquafaba loomed in the background.
I began my first blend without any aquafaba.
Because I'm terrible I did actually try some at this early stage and have to say that it was just as you'd expect from the following picture: gritty mayonnaise with a heavy dose of chickpea and self-loathing. I blended on.
Again, it was just a very mayo-y chickpea purée, so I decided at this point I would try adding some aquafaba. I've made good vegan mayonnaise with aquafaba before, so I was hopeful.
It did look like absolute dogshit though.
But, we blend on, boats against the current and all that. I had zero confidence in this recipe to begin with but fraus, I was disappointed.
Honestly the most astonishingly bad thing I've made. This is neither stretchy, nor is it hummus. I would describe it as a wet chickpea mayo. The addition of the aquafaba did make it less mayo-y, but only on first taste; the aftertaste was appalling. It didn't have any of the lovely tahini, garlic or lemon flavours that you might get in a homemade hummus. Did have flavours of what I imagine a chicken's arse tastes like, though, so if that's your thing then fire on in.
It also slopped off the spoon. It's got the texture of a bog.
I was going to save it for Mr Owl's return from the beach to get his reaction for you all but I think I love him too much to subject him to it.
Jack's a menace of the first water because this was rank. I'm having wine.
I hate you from the bottom of my pencil case...
. Old timey medicine
