Sauces and dips
Toum, or Garlic Sauce
Toum is one of the sauces served with chicken. We have the easiest way to make it without eggs, starch, or potatoes, and the result is excellent in flavor. It can be kept in the refrigerator for a full month.
Toum is one of the sauces served with grilled chicken, shawarma, or chicken taouk and more. There are several ways to prepare it, but the easiest toum is the one made without eggs, starch, or potatoes, and the result is excellent in flavor. It can be kept in the refrigerator for a full month.
Ingredients
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- 3 heads garlic
- 1 tablespoon lemon salt, or citric acid
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup vegetable oil, less or more as needed
Method
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- In a food processor or the special cocktail/blender jug, place the peeled garlic with the salt and blend, turning the machine off every now and then to stir the garlic and scrape down any bits thrown to the sides of the jug.
- Add the lemon salt and continue blending or whisking.
- Add the oil in a thin stream until you reach the desired creamy consistency, then stop adding oil.
- Store this sauce, or toum, in the refrigerator for a month or more after sealing it well with plastic wrap or placing it in a tightly closed jar.
- A wonderful, easy toum recipe from our friend and cook at What Are We Cooking Today
- Click on the link to make Avocado Sauce, or Guacamole
- To make chicken shawarma in the tastiest way, click on the following link Easy Chicken Taouk Marinade
Recipe tags
Sauces and dipsInternationalVegetarianVeganDairy freeGluten freeNut freeEgg free
Notes and serving ideas
- Avocado Sauce, or Guacamole
- Easy Chicken Taouk Marinade
