Toum - Middle Eastern Garlic Sauce. Toum is a Middle Eastern garlic sauce that is smooth, creamy, and bold. Toum is both a sauce, a condiment, and a dip, loaded with pungent raw garlic, which gives it both its kick and the necessary emulsifiers to keep it stable. It's perfect for grilled meat and kebabs or as a bold (and egg-free) alternative to mayonnaise.
Toum - Recipe for Middle Eastern Garlic Sauce. Use on Shawarma, Falafel, Grilled Foods. I've been wanting to post this recipe for a while now, but it took some time to develop it and get it just right. You can Cook Toum - Middle Eastern Garlic Sauce using 6 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Toum - Middle Eastern Garlic Sauce
- Lets Go Prepare 2 Tablespoons of Corn Starch.
- Lets Go Prepare 3/4 Cup of Water.
- What You needis 4 Cloves of Garlic , finely minced.
- What You needis 1 Teaspoon of Lemon juice vinegar /.
- What You needis 4 Tablespoons of Olive Oil.
- It's Pinch of salt of.
Toum is a Lebanese garlic sauce that's actually more like a spread because of its thickness. It's super popular to spread it over Shish Tawook, grilled chicken, shawarma, rotisserie chicken and many other Middle Eastern dishes. It's basically a slow and steady emulsion process of garlic and oil and it's utterly heavenly! Today, I continue my love letter to Middle Eastern food!
Toum - Middle Eastern Garlic Sauce step by step
- Dissolve cornstarch in water and place it in a pot over medium low heat. Whisk continuously till it bubbles..
- Take off heat and let it cool..
- In a blender, mix garlic and salt. You might laugh at the 4 cloves, but trust me 4 is plenty. You will regret adding that extra clove. YOU WILL!.
- Add the starch mix, and lemon..
- Blend until the mixture turns white..
- Drizzle the oil into the mix as it blends. Keep adding the oil till you get the consistency of mayonnaise..
- Now make yourself a juicy shawarma, or grill some meat or just funk up your cucumber sandwich with toum..
- And you are vampire-proof..
I teased this recipe when I posted the Perfect Pillowy Pita Bread recipe a few weeks ago, and I am HERE TO DELIVER!. This Lebanese garlic sauce, sometimes called "toum," was another delicious item that I discovered for the first time the summer I worked at a Middle Eastern restaurant. Also known as Toum or Toom (which happens to be the Lebanese word for garlic), this sauce traditionally accompanies sandwiches (like Shawarmas). Personally, I love getting a heaping bowl full and eating it with pita, crackers, or even veggies like a dip. Best part of all this recipe only requires four every day ingredients, a food processor, and patience!