Recipe: Perfect Toum - Middle Eastern Garlic Sauce

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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 - Middle Eastern Garlic Sauce 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

  1. Lets Go Prepare 2 Tablespoons of Corn Starch.
  2. Lets Go Prepare 3/4 Cup of Water.
  3. What You needis 4 Cloves of Garlic , finely minced.
  4. What You needis 1 Teaspoon of Lemon juice vinegar /.
  5. What You needis 4 Tablespoons of Olive Oil.
  6. 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

  1. Dissolve cornstarch in water and place it in a pot over medium low heat. Whisk continuously till it bubbles..
  2. Take off heat and let it cool..
  3. 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!.
  4. Add the starch mix, and lemon..
  5. Blend until the mixture turns white..
  6. Drizzle the oil into the mix as it blends. Keep adding the oil till you get the consistency of mayonnaise..
  7. Now make yourself a juicy shawarma, or grill some meat or just funk up your cucumber sandwich with toum..
  8. 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!