Spiced garlic sauce(TOUM). 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 is a bold and creamy Middle Eastern garlic sauce made of garlic, oil, lemon juice, and a pinch of salt with just a little bit of water.
Olive Oil and Garlic Sauce (Toum) Toum or Garlic Sauce is one of the most important sauces/dips in Mediterranean, and specifically Lebanese, cuisine.
Like Spanish or Italian aioli but with a lot more bite, this sauce is the perfect accompaniment to so many dishes, but especially grilled chicken like shawarma or kebab.
Lebanese garlic sauce is a condiment similar to mayonnaise, but with a very strong garlic flavor.
You can cook Spiced garlic sauce(TOUM) using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Spiced garlic sauce(TOUM)
- It's 1/2 cup of fresh garlic.
- It's 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
- It's 1/2 teaspoon of black pepper.
- Prepare 2 tablespoons of lemon juice.
- Prepare 1 teaspoon of paprika.
- It's 1 teaspoon of hot sauce.
- It's 2 tablespoons of Cream.
- You need 1 teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce.
- Prepare 1 of and half cup oil.
Lebanese Garlic Sauce (Traditional Toum) This sauce is very similar to an aioli sauce, made without any egg yolk. It is used as an accompaniment to several meat dishes, and can actually be eaten with bread on its own. Toum (Lebanese Garlic Sauce) A creamy, delicious, spicy Lebanese dipping or spreading sauce, and an absolute must have with Chicken Shawarma, Shish Taouk or any other variant of Kebab dish. Creamy and fluffy garlic sauce or toum which is so tasty and makes a great spread or dipping sauce for shawarma or grilled chicken.
Spiced garlic sauce(TOUM) instructions
- In a blender add all the ingredients except for the oil and lemon juice blend till soft.
- Next start drizzling the oil small at a time alternating it together with the lemon juice (emulsion) until the sauce is as thick as mayo..
- Note: make sure your garlics are not aged as this still affect the taste and quality of the sauce.
- Use neutral tasting oil like canola or sunflower.
- Drizzle the oil not just pour it else you’ll end up with a watery sauce. This sauce is a labor of love🙌🏻.
- I enjoyed my shawarma with it so as my friends.
I have already shared a garlic sauce recipe in my blog. 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! If you've never had the pleasure of trying toum, it's a creamy garlic dipping sauce that is often served in Middle Eastern and Mediterranean restaurants.
