Toum Recipe
Servings: 3 cups
Calories: 1426kcal
I like to purchase peeled garlic cloves; Whole Foods sells a great pouch of organic garlic cloves. You can increase the amount of oil added to the toum by an additional cup to level out the garlic flavor or make a larger amount. To make toum in a prep food processor (a smaller food processor than the standard 11-cup), simply reduce the ingredients below by half the amount.
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Equipment
Ingredients
For a standard processor:
- 1 1/2 cups garlic cloves peeled (from about 4 bulbs)
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 2 cups neutral oil such as canola or safflower (look for expeller pressed
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 1/4 cup ice water
Instructions
- To prepare the garlic, slice the cloves in half lengthwise and remove any green sprouts. Worth the effort here, as the sprouts contribute to burn and bitterness.
- If making toum by hand, mince or grate the garlic on a fine grater into a medium bowl. Set the bowl over a towel or use a non-skid bowl, to hold it in place as you whisk. If making toum in a processor, blitz the garlic with the salt until it is minced, stopping to scrape down the bowl as you go.
- Take your time here. Whisking constantly or with the processor running, use a teaspoon to drop a droplet of oil into the garlic. Stop and scrape down the bowl. Then add another droplet, stop and scrape, then another. Continue in this way even though at first it seems like nothing is happening.
- Once the garlic begins to look a bit creamy, you can add the oil a couple of droplets at a time, stopping and scraping the bowl down as you go. Stay with it.
- Continue in this way until the garlic becomes thick and spreadable. Once the emulsion is fully formed and what you have looks like a thick white spread, you can increase the speed of adding the oil. Rather than droplets, add the oil in a slow, thin, steady stream while processing or whisking. Stop and taste and keep adding more oil if the toum is too strong. Don't be surprised if this process takes up to 15-20 minutes.
- Finish by processing or whisking in the lemon juice and ice water.
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Nutrition
Calories: 1426kcal | Carbohydrates: 24g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 150g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 42g | Monounsaturated Fat: 95g | Trans Fat: 1g | Sodium: 1563mg | Potassium: 294mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 7IU | Vitamin C: 29mg | Calcium: 126mg | Iron: 1mg
