Toum is a traditional Levantine garlic sauce commonly eaten in the Eastern Mediterranean region, including countries like Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Jordan. Yo make it by emulsifying raw garlic with oil, lemon juice, and salt until it turns thick, fluffy, and bright white.

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  1. Recipe:
    120 g garlic cloves (peeled, germ removed)
    10 g salt (about 1½ tsp)
    240 ml neutral oil (sunflower or grapeseed),
    60 ml fresh lemon juice,

    – place the oil in the fridge for at least 30 minutes to make it cold
    – ⁠place the garlic in a food processor with salt, pulse it until it becomes a very smooth paste. Scrape down well
    – ⁠Add in the lemon juice and half of the oils then blend into a wet paste
    – ⁠Now slowly drizzle in the rest of the oil while blending. If your food processor doesn't have a gap to do this, just keep opening and adding in oil bit by bit and blending as you go
    – ⁠adjust the seasoning to taste with salt and more lemon juice as needed
    – ⁠if your emulsion splits, you can try to strain out the oil, leaving the garlic paste. Chill both the oil and garlic paste then try blending again, adding the oil slower this time

  2. I used to eat soooo much of it growing up in Michigan. There is a huge middle eastern population where I'm from and the garlic sauce is the best part of eating grilled beef, chicken and lamb kabobs. Can't have a meal without it! My favorite restaurant told me a secret ingredient is potato. I'm still not sure how that factors into the recipe but their toum was hands down The. Best!

  3. As a half Lebanese, i approve! 😊🇱🇧 .. "Toum" literally means garlic in Arabic, and this "toum" spread, is from lebanon. And you can see it as the lebanese version of mayonnaise. Because you emulsify the garlic paste with oil. 😊👍

  4. in spain we have a version with olive oil instead of neutral oil called allioli/aioli. i think they also eat it in occitania in france too

  5. Try making with mustard oil and finish with toasted mustard seeds and sesame seeds (and touch of salty)

  6. Finally seeing this made without an egg! IT'd been years since I've made this stuff, thank you for the reminder and a good show of how to make it if you don't have an immersion blender!