Also my blender isn’t crush things well, can I grate garlic? Here is my recipe for Toum Garlic Spread. If you want to try a specific kind of garlic, ordering it online is your best bet. The problem was that pieces of garlic were splattered all over the place inside the blender and would not concentrate easily on the bottom where you need them to be. It has more of a mayonnaise type consistency to me. Will follow your instructions to the letter next time. I have failed more times than succeeded. Im glad I found this website. By Suzyo Changa Thanksgiving is one of my favorite times to cook and spend time with loved ones. Hi Ahmad – thank you for your feedback. It took a minute or two but my “paste” was up and running. Using a small chinois, I strained a couple of teaspoons of the solids and tossed them into the mortar and started banging away. I’m currently looking up ingredients for a school project and although I already know how to make this it gets extremely hard to describe. I've already tried adding more salt and lemon to half of the batch but it isn't toning down the aftertaste and I'm starting to lose the thick texture. Jene yes absolutely. I got it after the 3rd try. Great article BUT to large! Good to know. I was wondering how much lecithin should I use to get the reciepy to work cause I don’t want to use raw eggs. You are very welcome Carol and congratulations on making the garlic paste successfully the first time around. Now I heard you could put a bit of oil and squeeze of lemon on top of the dish? 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. hi, kindly tell me the ratio of oil, garlic and lemon juice in gram or millilitter. I found this recipe and followed it exactly as laid out. I don’t know if it will have an impact on reducing the garlic bitterness. You might need to add just a little bit of water during this process to help things along. Can you tell me how long the sauce will keep in the fridge? My friends and I have been experimenting with this for some time after all falling in love with the ‘garlic butter’ at La Marsa’s(a michigan restaurant). Marcia what type of restaurant was that? Hi Alex – sorry to hear about the garlic soup. And it didn't break, the texture maintained and it tastes much milder now. Garlic Sauce – Toum. Now regarding Lecithin, I’ve never tried it with it however a friend who is a foodie told me that emulsifiers such as Soy Lecithin or Xanthan Gum can work too. It … One thing I think you might all like to try: Dry fry 1/2 sesame seeds until golden, then grind them to a powder in a coffee grinder. Thanks so much for such a fast reply!! Thank you, thank you!!! ¾ cup of water. I love this stuff, for those of you like myself who suffer from life in the fast track and never have time to slow down to make these tasty treats. If you want to fix a dish that's too spicy, you need to know where the spice is coming from and choose what's most appropriate for that particular sauce. On the topic of addiction, Ivy recently got me a bit hooked on a new tv series called Drugs Inc. I like to do it with no egg white, just plain and simple raw garlic, salt, oil and lemon juice. Oil tames down the garlic hotness. I thought they were pretty reasonable and also pretty quick shipping. anyone try making this in a nutribullet/nutriblast/Ninja Single blast, To see if you can get the same consistency? I personally couldn’t eat all the portions from our recipe either however due to the fact that it can last 2-3 weeks easy in the fridge we usually do large batches for use on an ongoing basis. Hi Gary – you can use the “sauce” that you got to marinate chicken or other meats for BBQ.. and if I were you I’d try this again. Required fields are marked *. Hi Renee – glad you stopped by. You can also subscribe without commenting. Ok so I made the toum for our traditional Christmas Eve dinner, watched the video and OMG it was perfection, Thank you Thank you , Love this recipe! Was called La Marsa, I asked our serve , she said garlic , soy, ice, salt … Am try my first try FAILED! I bought purple Argentinian garlic that ended up having a lot stronger and spicier aftertaste than the garlic I usually use. Awesome we look forward to finding out how you like it. . If you like it broken down and more mellow, use this quantity of oil or even more. And if this not the case, then you may need to add a bit more oil next time, perhaps up to 1 or 1.5 cups extra as well as a bit more salt at the beginning. I've never turned off the food processor while making toum so I don't know if stopping and restarting could cause problems. Can you tell me if its the same effect if I use Realemon instead of freshly squeezed lemon juice. Glad to know others tried it successfully, now I’m more encouraged to try it. Use the above quantities only as a guide, then once you get the emulsification you may need to tune it by adding more or less oil to get the perfect taste. You can use this conversion table if you’d like: http://www.asknumbers.com/CupToMilliliter.aspx, Lived in S.A. for several years have beed looking for sauce recipe they use for shawarmas THANKS just made it did break I fixed it by adding egg yoke and beating by hand with lager wisk taste like I remebeed can not wait to have my shawarma this weekend THANKS again, Hi Mary thank you for stopping by and I’m glad the garlic recipe worked out for you let me know how the shawarma goes, Your email address will not be published. Thanks for your comment Angelika. You are my hero for posting this recipe! I know that I would be a lot of work, but can a mortar and pestle be used instead of a food processer? If the garlic paste is too harsh/spicy, you just keep on adding more oil. Add garlic to a small processor with olive oil and lemon juice. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. Fluffy as in the pic! Have you ever heard of or tried adding some fresh jalapeno? i asked at a restaurant what that was , Was so great! Hi Miki – it’s more difficult to do it with a blender since the garlic would splash on the sides and you’d have to keep on stopping to push them down. Detroit. Some garlic is hotter than other. good job Marcia! I fell in love with this sauce at our favorite Lebanese restaurant in Los Angeles and I’ve been trying to figure out how to make the sauce they served with their grilled mahi mahi ever since. Either the texture wasn’t quite right or the flavor wasn’t exactly where I wanted it to be. Regarding adding more oil and lemon, this really becomes to taste. I am going too try this recipe…. Finally you could try to reduce the lemon juice quantity. My Toum was also a failure in texture, but the flavors are a beautiful thing!! You sure can Emilie, we’ve done it successfully with the Magic Bullet before. Gezzzzz just can’t get this right …lol. 3. We also used to rip the lebanese bread in 1/2, lather on the toum and then BBQ, it's the most delish garlic bread! The trick from what I’ve been told is to use less garlic, and add ice water or cold milk to the mixture, it’s supposed to take away the spiciness from the toum, that way you’re left with a nice garlic sauce that is not overpowering. I hit max capacity on my food processor. My first try crashed because I was only using a half cup of garlic and my Cuisinart was far too big and as a result 1) the garlic cloves did not sufficiently paste and 2) the oil was not making sufficient contact with the garlic and I ended up with a cup and a half of failed broken sauce. An emulsion always involves two incompatible liquids that are brought together by dispersing one into tiny droplets suspended throughout the other. The cloves are big, easy to peel, not too spicy, and very tasty. If you also have a mortar and pestle you could do it there following the same sequence of ingredients addition. Olive oil sure makes it bitter. You sure can Bernie it’s just going to be a bit difficult getting the garlic cloves to turn mashed with such a low quantity, if you’re using a large food processor. You can also use it with BBQs, fried chicken, rice…etc Believe me those 20 servings won’t last long . Hi Lori. I’ll add that rather than 10 minutes, it took me about an hour to add the oil and lemon – part of that time was turning off my Cuisinart to let it cool down. Only at that point, after they’re completely crushed do I start adding the oil perhaps one cup at a time, very slowly, then 1 or even 1/2 teaspoon of lemon and alternate until I’ve used about 3-4 cups of oil per cup of garlic. The best way to counteract the bitterness is with something sweet. I do just enough oil to just start to stir than I add an ounce or less of egg white and instant paste has started. Great! Really excited to try making it myself. Much easier than making two separate sauces! Thank you! Toum is essentially a mayonnaise, but it's stabilized with garlic instead of egg.Just like mayo, toum is an emulsion of oil into water made possible with the help of a third-party emulsifier. I even added one more egg white to dilute out the taste. Hi Sandi and thank you for your comment. Toum is a wonderfully versatile sauce that makes the best out of a few ingredients. What is the best tasting oil to use? Is this one the same? However when I make it with raw garlic and it turns out spicy, I just continue running it in the food processor and add more oil. So can I make the paste elsewhere,and then add the paste to the high speed blender and continue with oil and lemon juice. Thanks for sharing the idea about Jalapeno in the paste, I’ve actually thought about trying it once but then I thought I didn’t want to waste the garlic if it turns out bad so I stopped. Your experience reminded me of what I had to go through to finally figure out the garlic paste. Looks much simpler than I thought. I added that whiter sauce to the “successful” sauce and repeated the process until all the solids had been reborn as this beautiful sauce. is that ok with 4 cups of oil? I’ m glad you liked it Gary. 1st try. My toum came out too spicy. If however you have a smaller food processor then it should be fine. Like I mentioned for the garlic paste the best way to reduce garlic spiciness is to add more oil while making it. I have not tried this recipe yet but it looks great! I’m so happy to find your website and recipes Even more happy to say my Garlic ‘Butter’ turned out amazing the 1st time around and I am thrilled to try others now!!! Will the taste reduce once it cools ? My blender is a closed one, so I need to add, close the lid, blend and then repeat the process. Richard this is awesome creativity at work!! If you want to try a specific kind of garlic, ordering it online is your best bet. Add the powder to the garlic when crushing then carry on as usual. Too much sautéed garlic can give your dish a bitter taste. Once the garlic is pureed, drizzle in 1.5 cups of the oil. I did just like your video, but that delicious recipe turn into a watery mess. It is most often served with chicken. Put the garlic cloves in the a food processor or blender and drip/stream oil slowly as the garlic is being pureed. Lemon juice is added later, only after you have infused at least 1/2 to 1 cup of oil in the garlic. And do you know what the measurements are exactly on the lemon juice. How would you reduce that to a ratio so that I could make less? It has been in the fridge for 4 days now and it’s still a little too spicy for me? However I encourage you to try again without lecithin if at all possible. ... How can i get rid of the “too spicy” taste? Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Suddenly to my surpise, I got a beautiful paste.I kept adding oil and blended out the strong garlic taste. 4)If your garlic sauce split or curdled. I used up so many pounds of garlic first trying to figure this out but once you get the hang of the process it becomes a breeze. What Is Toum? The key is to start off with a large quantity of garlic in the food processor (about 1 cup) and with just salt on them, grind them for a minute or 2 until they turn into a paste or super crushed. I’m sure this will help lots of my family! Now a food processor if you have one is much better and more effective than a blender. It’s great on grilled meats and vegetables or as a spread or dip. If you want to try a specific kind of garlic, ordering it online is your best bet. Can this be saved or did I just wast $10 and an hour of my time? Take the whole sauce in a cup and add 1 cold egg white in the blender and add the curdled mix little by little and keep blending till it gets thick. If you want to experiment with other uses of the garlic paste, try spreading it on bread, add feta or goat cheese and toast on a foreman grill or in the oven. Then it will become fluffy and thick. Each spring it … Can i use lemon juice in can?? Thank you so much for posting this recipe. Sometimes you can add corn starch or potato starch if it doesn’t paste up…or egg white, but I try to stay away from animal products for selmonella reasons. It tastes pretty burn-ey and strong, too. Use on Shawarma, Falafel, Grilled Foods. I used to also try some starches in the garlic to make it firm, and I’ve also tried eggs successfully. Add another tablespoon lemon juice and process until completely smooth and slightly fluffy. This recipe makes for a great side dish and will have your guests wanting more! Run on high speed. After that I could add the oil at almost any ate I wanted and the ensuing paste just got better and better. Sometimes mine comes out too raw garlicky even with regular garlic. Remove the garlic cloves from the head. Vincent here is the problem: you don’t add lemon juice to the paste and salt initially… this will definitely break them. If you like it strong and pungent, then use less oil. The problem was the food processor! How much ml would be 1 cup of oil in ur recipe.thx, Hi Raziq, it looks like 1 cup is about 237 ml. Being Lebanese myself I find this website extremely accurate! Chef Fred Heurtin’s Spicy Toum Recipe. Can you use the blender instead of the food processor? Have patience while adding lemon/oil, follow the recipe and you will the fluffy tasty dip… . thanks for sharing this! Surely i will try edgard :-),and will get u bck ,.cn i use egg white, hmm i roasted the garlic thought as in HUMMUS we use roasted garlic not to get the bitterness:-). I find that doing it in a food processor is way easier. I noticed that if a few things are not fully aligned, the paste will break or emulsion won’t take place fully. At it’s worst — and believe me, I know all about it’s worst — toum is runny, loosely curdled and suspicious looking. Toum has four basic ingredients: Garlic, oil, lemon juice and salt. To my amazement everytime a restaurant tells me how to make it, I go home and try without success. Note: It is very important that the oil and lemon juice be added in stages or there is a risk of the sauce splitting. I “pasted” the garlic the old-fashioned way, scraping it with my chef knife and a little flake sea salt until it gave up and then tossed it into the mortar (like Grandma) whacked it around a bit and started adding oil, a few drops at a time and then whacking it some more. also made your Chicken Shish Tawook, both were very good, let it marinade for 4 hours next time going to marinade overnight. Toum – Recipe for Middle Eastern Garlic Sauce. I’ve tried it before and didn’t like the subtle hint it leaves in the garlic. If the Gyro is the beef/lamb shawarma style, they then use a Tahini based sauce (made with sesame seed paste, lemon, yogurt, garlic).. I’m ready to rock and roll. The essential condiment in the Middle East, served with Shawarma, Fried or Grilled Chicken and Kebabs. All Rights Reserved. For some reason neither of them can seem to keep water in the sink. Add the lemon and oil slowly. I always grind my garlic with salt and olive oil and let it breath for bit and mellow out when I make allioli. And you should order soon. it was lovely and creamy and suddenly with only using 3 of the 4 cups of Canola it split and went to liquid. My husband is SO happy! All is not lost I have just made sour dough toast and spread a little on the bread before adding cheese, sliced tomato and basil. The solution to this would be to add more oil than the recipe demands. 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