Homemade Hummus

Ingredients
2 cups chickpeas (Garbanzo beans)
2-3 garlic cloves
1-2 tbsp olive oil
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/3 tahini (seasame sauce, can be found in Middle Eastern markets)
water
salt

1. Finely mix the chickpeas and garlic cloves in a food processor until they reach a smooth consistency.
2. Add the olive oil and lemon juice, mix them in well. If the lemon juice is not mixed in well, it reacts strangely with the tahini.
3. Add the tahini, mix again. If the hummus is getting too thick, add water to thin it out.
4. Add salt to flavor. If the hummus is not bitter enough, add more tahini.

This recipe comes from Annie, and is absolutely spectacular. Making it here in Germany, we got most of the ingredients from a Turkish market, where the owner was very surprised that we would be making hummus from scratch. But it was definitely worth it and wasn't too hard. Actually, you can even make it as we did, without a food processor by mashing the chickpeas with spoons. But, as you can guess, that takes a lot longer, but is no less delicious!