Best Lebanes Garlic Dipsauce Aka Toom Recipes

LEBANESE GARLIC SAUCE RECIPE

Steps:

• Put the garlic in the bowl of a food processor with the salt, and process until the garlic is as fine as possible.
• Use a rubber spatula to scrape down the sides as needed.
• Add a teaspoon of lemon juice and process to create a bit of a paste.
• With the food processor running, drizzle about 3 tablespoons into the paste.
• Add another one teaspoon of lemon juice.
• Add oil about a quarter cup at a time, followed by a teaspoon of lemon juice.
• Follow this alternating until you have used up your ingredients.
• The main thing to remember is to go slow, it can take ten or fifteen minutes to go through this process.

TOUM GARLIC SAUCE RECIPE

Steps:

• Peel the garlic cloves. Cut the cloves in half and remove the green germ (this is optional).
• Place the garlic and kosher salt in the bowl of a food processor (a smaller one may work better here). Pulse a few times until the garlic looks minced, stopping to scrape down the sides. Add the lemon juice and pulse a few times to combine (again, scrape down the sides)
• While the food processor is running, drizzle the oil in ever so slowly (use the top opening of the processor to drizzle in the oil). After you've used about 1/4 cup or so, add in about 1 tablespoon of the ice water. Stop to scrape down the sides of the processor bowl.
• Keep the processor running and continue to slowly drizzle in the oil, adding a tablespoon of the ice water after every 1/4 cup of oil. Continue on with this process until you have used up the oil entirely. The garlic sauce has thickened and increased in volume (it should look smooth and fluffy). This should take somewhere around 10 minute or so.

TOUM (GARLIC WHIP)

Steps:

• Place peeled garlic and salt in the bowl of a food processor. Pulse the garlic for 30 seconds, scrape down the sides of the bowl, then repeat three more times until garlic is finely chopped.
• Add 2 tablespoons lemon juice and continue processing until a smooth paste forms, about 3 minutes, scraping down the sides of the bowl every 45 seconds or so. You want the wet, finely chopped garlic mixture to end up with a texture similar to mashed potatoes. Pinch it between your fingertips, and it should no longer feel gritty. (If you don't blend the garlic enough at this stage, it won't become fluffy and emulsified later.)
• With the food processor running, start incorporating 1 cup oil, drizzling it in at a slow, steady stream. Once the oil is incorporated, slowly add another 2 tablespoons lemon juice. Repeat this step with another 1 cup oil, then another 2 tablespoons lemon juice. By the end, the mixture should have a fluffy consistency.
• With the food processor running, alternate adding 1/2 cup oil in a slow, steady stream, then 1 tablespoon lemon juice. This should happen twice. Next, with the food processor running, add the remaining 1/2 cup oil in a slow stream until totally incorporated, then do the same for the ice water.
• Once finished, transfer to a lidded container and refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Toum will keep, refrigerated, for up to 3 weeks.

TOUM RECIPE FOR THE WORLD'S STRONGEST LEBANESE GARLIC SAUCE

Steps:

• Ensure that all ingredients are at room temperature for a more reliable outcome. Also if you are using a large food processor make sure you use at least 3 heads of garlic otherwise smaller quantities of garlic won't be easily reached by large blades.
• Add the garlic and salt in the food processor and run for 10-20 seconds.
• Stop processor, scrap garlic down the sides, then run processor again for another 10-20 seconds. Repeat process 3-4 times until garlic starts to turn pasty.
• From this point onwards, turn the processor back on and keep it on until the end.
• Start adding the oil slowly in a very thin stream. After adding the first half cup you will start seeing the garlic emulsify and turn into a shiny paste already.
• While still running, add ½ teaspoon of lemon juice very slowly, in a thin stream.
• Wait on it a few seconds until the lemon juice is well absorbed then go back to repeating the same process of slowly adding ½ cup of oil in a thin stream, waiting a few seconds, then adding ½ teaspoon of lemon juice until you've used all ingredients. This process should take 8-10 minutes.

TOUM (GARLIC SAUCE)

Steps:

• Peel the garlic cloves and slice them in half lengthwise. If there is a green germ in any of the cloves, remove it to prevent the bitter, burning flavor it imparts.
• Process the garlic cloves with the salt in the food processor, stopping and scraping down the sides a few times, until the garlic is minced. Add the lemon juice and pulse several times to combine.
• With the processor on, begin to drizzle the oil in so slowly that the stream turns to a dribble at times; use the oil drip hole in the top of the processor if yours has one. After 1/4 cup (60 mL) of the oil has been added, slowly pour in a tablespoon (15 mL) of the ice water. Continue slowly drizzling in the oil and slowly adding a tablespoon of ice water after every 1/4 cup (60 mL) of oil until the sauce is thickened and all of the oil has been incorporated. This takes about 7 minutes.
• The sauce will be slightly thick, with some body, but still pourable. Store the toum in an airtight container in the refrigerator for several weeks.

LEBANES GARLIC DIP/SAUCE AKA TOOM

Steps:

• The key to your success in obtaining the needed result is to understand that oil and garlic at the proper ratio will react with each other and creat a fluffy mayo-like creamy product. If a any point the oil overwhelms the mixture, all of your work effort will go to waste (unless you increase the portions you started with and add more than 1 head of garlic). Start with peeling all of the garlic, clip away their hard extremity. Add 1/4 tspn salt, and crush them to paste-like. Start by adding 2 TBL spoons of oil and vigourosly crush and forcibliy blend them together in a rotation motion around the wall of the crushing cup. The temperature generated by this motion helps accelerate the reaction. This is why ceramic cruhing cups might not generate the needed heat. As you continue mixing the ingredients vigourously, you will quickly notice that the mixture will absorb the oil and it becomes thicker as you go along. Add another two TBL spoons of oil and repeat. Until the oil is consumed, or you are starting to notic that the mixture is taking a long time to become thick. This indicates that the garlic is saturated with oil, and any additional oil might break down the mixture into a liquidy soup loosing all of your previous work. You could add salt along the way, or at the end, or both. If you find it too spicy, add either a bit of yogourt (start with half a tspn) or mayo instead of the yogourt. Alternatively, a bit of a boiled potatoe, mashed to softness, could be added, and it would give it a stiffer texture.