However my recommendation is to still try to use freshly squeezed juice. The ratio is typically 1 to 3 or 1 to 4 Garlic to Oil cups. I have tried it before and it was really hot, it actually burnt our mouth to taste…is this recipe the same LOL. I got it after the 3rd try. I don’t have food processor, can I use blender? Hello, I was wondering if I could use my Magic Bullet for this recipe? ... How can i get rid of the “too spicy” taste? Can a person use grapeseed oil to make this? Add 1 tablespoon lemon juice and continue processing until a paste begins to form. Vegan, Garlicky, Creamy and Flavorful. 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. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. Thank you very much! If you want to try a specific kind of garlic, ordering it online is your best bet. If you don’t get that step right, it will make the remaining of the process more difficult. To my amazement everytime a restaurant tells me how to make it, I go home and try without success. Also, if anyone has any other possible solutions I would be grateful! I've never turned off the food processor while making toum so I don't know if stopping and restarting could cause problems. I’ve tried the blender before and found it a bit tougher to manage than a food processor. However I found out that I never have to use them ever again. Not all garlic is created equal, some types are spicier than others. Olive oil sure makes it bitter. 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. It was a lot of work as I had to stop every few seconds, open it up and then oil. So, thankyou. Hi Shanelle – thank you for your comment. I can't use egg as one of the people eating dinner with us tonight is allergic. I give permission to store the above data and use it to contact me. For my 11 cups processor, I use 3 heads of garlic (more than 1 cup worth) 4- Add the garlic + salt to the processor and run it until they turn into a paste and you no longer see chunks 5- At that point while the processor is running start adding the oil slowly up to 1/2 or 1 cup of oil. and runny? You could try that as well next time. Some folks boil or bake a potato and add a few pieces to the food processor while making the garlic in order to tone down the harshness. As for oil, the recommended quantity is 4-5 cups, this is equivalent to about 1.2 liters. The blades on my hamilton beach wouldn’t get the garlic on the bottom. Voila! Post anything related to cooking here, within reason. Egg white is simply an emulsifier agent here. Not many people can do that. Add the garlic and salt to the blender and then carefully add the oil and lemon juice in stages, a little at a time, while the emulsification process takes place. You are my hero for posting this recipe! I don't know if it matters but the toum had been in the refrigerator for about an hour before I reintroduced it to the food processor. 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. The result should be a tangy/garlicky paste…. Hi Gary – I tried making the garlic paste a few times using “The Bullet” which is a micro blender similar to Nutribullet. Wht should i use now to reduce the spiceyness Plssss do reply, It reduced wid more oil nd egg:-),thanks,from ystrdy hw many time we all had i Cnt say,:-) thanks dear, I love the garlic sauce:-),i had many times in Arabian restaurants nd bfc too,it’s just yumm wntd to .mk my own but dnt know hw,after reading ur recipe i couldn’t cntrl nd i made them,i roasted them smwht not fully,then hw u tld i did the same thing it came creamy ,but it became smwht spicey dnt know why, smthng making my tounge burn. Press J to jump to the feed. A watery mess for me too – then I put it into the frig – it separated and today I poured the oil off and tried again! I’d love to hear how it turns out for you. Thank you! Using a small chinois, I strained a couple of teaspoons of the solids and tossed them into the mortar and started banging away. We all meet in the kitchen cooking up our favorite dishes. Really excited to try making it myself. Jene yes absolutely. Did you use olive oil to make it or was it vegetable oil (canola/etc…)? It is most often served with chicken. ... (Traditionally the oil is added and the sauce is made in the mortar itself, but nowadays a blender works well too). If you want to try a specific kind of garlic, ordering it online is your best bet. Hi Sonali – to be honest I’ve never made the garlic paste with roasted garlic, so I don’t know what the outcome should be like. This is now on my list to be made for Christmas this year. However I personally prefer the food processor. 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. Richard this is awesome creativity at work!! Thank u for the recipe..was looking for a wonderful toum recipe for lng time..could u help me in the quantity of oil. ultimate… this recipe is the best for making authentic toum. Glad the garlic dip turned out well.. very creative solution to refrigerate the watery sauce prior to trying again.. those are the wonders of the process of emulsion. With the food processor running, slowly drizzle in 1/2 cup oil in a very thin stream, followed by 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Lebanese garlic sauce, also called "toum," is used in Middle Eastern cooking on everything from noodles to roasted meats to vegetables. Vincent here is the problem: you don’t add lemon juice to the paste and salt initially… this will definitely break them. If you want to try a specific kind of garlic, ordering it online is your best bet. This recipe checks all the boxes and it is vegan too. I even added one more egg white to dilute out the taste. 1st try. It is so delicious! My blender is a closed one, so I need to add, close the lid, blend and then repeat the process. Hi Hannah – this is an indication that the emulsification process (which binds the oils + water to form a cream) failed.. don’t sweat it, just try again following our instructions closely. Hi Lori. And if I want to make it less harsh, I use more oil. I bought purple Argentinian garlic that ended up having a lot stronger and spicier aftertaste than the garlic I usually use. Much easier than making two separate sauces! 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. 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. I poured the failure into a container for later use and started over, this time eschewing all machines for the basics. You don’t know how many pounds of garlic I’ve wasted until I got it right . Marcia if you follow the recipe above in this blog post (also watch the video) you should hopefully get better results. Thanks for the feedback Jawed I’m glad you liked it. ¾ cup of water. If you want to try a specific kind of garlic, ordering it online is your best bet. If you follow this sequence and such conditions you will make it.. The end result was good, except that it was very thick, like butter or margrine and still had some strong garlic after taste. If you add too much oil at one time it will curdle. I added that whiter sauce to the “successful” sauce and repeated the process until all the solids had been reborn as this beautiful sauce. I’m ready to rock and roll. I slowly trickled in another six tablespoons of lemon juice, alternating with almost two cups of more oil. We try to quantify things here, but you’ll probably notice that the ratios may need to be different in your case depending on how strong the garlic is, and which type of oil you use. Thanks so much for such a fast reply!! 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. Gezzzzz just can’t get this right …lol. Then it will become fluffy and thick. Either the texture wasn’t quite right or the flavor wasn’t exactly where I wanted it to be. Maybe because it was so cold after being refrigerated for a whole day. Using a food processor, puree the garlic cloves with the salt until very smooth. Puree until perfectly smooth. Next time I make the garlic paste I’ll try adding some jalapenos. I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to find this recipe. if so how much? I’ve tried it before and didn’t like the subtle hint it leaves in the garlic. Perfection! Each spring it … The blend emits heats, which heats up the liquid too and delays the process.This is what happened: Made a paste with sufficient garlic, salt and 2 TBS of lemon juice. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. What can I say it came out great!! And do you know what the measurements are exactly on the lemon juice. Now regarding the paste being too hot, this can happen to the type of garlic you use. You might need to add just a little bit of water during this process to help things along. YUM! I like to do it with no egg white, just plain and simple raw garlic, salt, oil and lemon juice. So if I have 2 cups of oil, I’d need 1/4 cup of garlic (and maybe a tsp of lemon juice) – does that seem right to you? I know that I would be a lot of work, but can a mortar and pestle be used instead of a food processer? My husband is SO happy! Do you know if using Realemon juice works out the same as squeezing a fresh lemon and do you know exactly how much lemon juice is in the recipe? For some reason neither of them can seem to keep water in the sink. Great! Lebanese Garlic Sauce Recipe: Toum, The Ultimate Guide, Be the first to get new recipes and exclusive, https://www.mamaslebanesekitchen.com/poultry/chicken-shawarma-recipe-garlic/, http://www.maskafood.com/authentic-middle-eastern-garlic-sauce/, http://www.asknumbers.com/CupToMilliliter.aspx, Mama’s Christmas Turkey: How to Cook a Turkey, Lebanese Style, Lebanese Fruit Cocktail With Rose Water Ashta Cream, Original Lebanese Ashta Recipe – Clotted Cream With Rose Water, Simple Fruit Salad Recipe: Lebanese Style. If I split the batch up could I continue adding oil to half at a time? I find that doing it in a food processor is way easier. I personally wasted so many pounds of garlic to finally get this right so don’t get discouraged. I had to add the whole bulb and more oil to try to try to tone down the lemon. Thank You! I thought they were pretty reasonable and also pretty quick shipping. See, I love the garlic sauce in certain Lebanese and Greek deli wraps and kabob dinner plates. Thank you for a great update!! Hi Alex – sorry to hear about the garlic soup. It’s absolutely delicious. Once the garlic is pureed, drizzle in 1.5 cups of the oil. Hi Dee – the sauce on Gyros varies greatly.. if you’re talking about the GReek Style Gyro, they use a yogurt-based sauce (zatziki). Detroit. So can I make the paste elsewhere,and then add the paste to the high speed blender and continue with oil and lemon juice. Toum is a wonderfully versatile sauce that makes the best out of a few ingredients. The cloves are big, easy to peel, not too spicy, and very tasty. Some garlic is extremely harsh, so you will need far more oil than a typical recipe, and other garlic types are softer and require far less oil. I found a smaller version of hamilton beach in my cupboard that i never used and the blades were lower. Can you tell me how long the sauce will keep in the fridge? How can I make it slighty thin again ? Question?! Enjoy!! It took me more than 1 year and several pounds of garlic to get it right, but it’s very satisfying to be finally able to make a good garlic paste! Suddenly, it overheated and broke into its elements of oil and garlic. I'm hoping there's a way to make a "plain" toum I could then mix in my overly spicy toum with. Note: It is very important that the oil and lemon juice be added in stages or there is a risk of the sauce splitting. You tear off a peice of lebanese bread, put some chicken or whatever meet you are cooking with, wrap it up and then dip it into the Toum. Although I was really sure that you added more lemon and oil. I wasted several pounds of garlic experimenting with different methods. Thanks for the fast response! I have failed more times than succeeded. Im glad I found this website. Added oil at intervals and blended. And you should order soon. The salt is absolutely necessary - not to make it salty, but to help the emulsion and balance the garlic flavour. I was told it was made with garlic soy, and ice ? I couldn’t eat an 1/8 of the paste. So I thought I put in freezer , just for dinner , going too try again tomorrow …. good job Marcia! as for adding lemon juice and olive oil on top this is only a preference of some folks. I hope you get a chance to try our recipe successfully. Finally you could try to reduce the lemon juice quantity. Will follow your instructions to the letter next time. I wasted so many pounds of garlic until I settled on this method which yields 100% success. Thanks Edgard, Actually tried before your suggestions. Will the taste reduce once it cools ? Thanks a lot for the recipe … been years since i’ve retired from work in Saudi Arabia, me and my family are dearly missing this type of food … shawarma, shish tawouk,falafel,hummus and many others to mention … The recipe and video helped a lot coz i got it in my first try … we have tried many times before using other methods and never got it right… now my family can avail of fresh toum anytime we want … i did it using a blender … need enough patience though … next time, im going to use a mortar and pestle to mash the garlic then continue the process in the blender … homemade shawarma galore … homemade hummus to follow … thanks again …. A sweetener like honey or sugar can work in some dishes that include garlic, but should be used carefully to keep the dish from becoming unpleasantly sweet. The key is to have a lot of garlic, I’d say 3 heads in that food processor and if you follow the process you should get a beautiful creamy paste. Ill try again but a smaller quantity. And you should order soon. Alright!! First my sauce was little liquidy…..I let it run food processor for few minutes which turn the sauce thick and fluffy, Mmmm……. Congratulations on making successful Garlic paste in such a cool twist to it. 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. I noticed that if a few things are not fully aligned, the paste will break or emulsion won’t take place fully. My toum came out too spicy. 2 to 5 cloves of garlic finely minced (see notes) You can also use it with BBQs, fried chicken, rice…etc Believe me those 20 servings won’t last long . 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. Ari LeVaux More Content Now Thursday Jun 25, 2020 at 9:55 AM Jun 25, 2020 at 9:55 AM. You could use grapeseed oil/canola/peanut oil/safflower..etc. Standards toum recipes use a food processor, but some modern chefs have discovered that it can be prepared with a blender instead. This may seem like a lot but it all depends on how you like the garlic. Also my blender isn’t crush things well, can I grate garlic? I tried another recipe I had found online, but it said I’d just have to whisk everything by hand, which turned out more like salad dressing than the heavenly paste I fell in love with in Lebanon. 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 recommend using a dry and clean blender). Glad to know others tried it successfully, now I’m more encouraged to try it. I did just like your video, but that delicious recipe turn into a watery mess. Was called La Marsa, I asked our serve , she said garlic , soy, ice, salt … Am try my first try FAILED! Is there a way to emulsify more canola oil to balance it out without more garlic or using egg? Hi Sandi and thank you for your comment. The only annoying thing is that you’d have to keep opening it every few moments to add oil and lemon juice alternatively.. other than that it should work. Too much sautéed garlic can give your dish a bitter taste. Greeks call it “skordalia”, French and Spanish versions are ”aioli” and the Lebanese take is called “toum.” 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! Hi Faizal – regarding the garlic paste measurements, for Garlic 3 heads are equivalent to about 30-40 cloves. 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. The best part of all this is that I had learned that yes indeed there is hope for the broken sauce. I have been experimenting with donar kebobs since my days in Turkey, Saudi Arabia and in Japan. Try to follow the video or recipe as close as possible, and this time around when you add the lemon juice use just half a teaspoon or even less, just a tiny bit every time. Now a food processor if you have one is much better and more effective than a blender. And you should order soon. Maybe i wont mess with success, and just do it the right way. I have not tried this recipe yet but it looks great! It tastes pretty burn-ey and strong, too. Add another tablespoon lemon juice and process until completely smooth and slightly fluffy. Chef Fred Heurtin’s Spicy Toum Recipe. Sorry I could not see my message from the day before so I didnt think my email sent and now I see both LOL. I used a high speed blender and often got just a liquid. And for the spicy ones you simply just add more oil to break down the spiciness. By Suzyo Changa Thanksgiving is one of my favorite times to cook and spend time with loved ones. On the topic of addiction, Ivy recently got me a bit hooked on a new tv series called Drugs Inc. 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!! I’m going to share this on my facebook. Garlic Sauce – Toum. It has been in the fridge for 4 days now and it’s still a little too spicy for me? Regarding the quantity of lemon juice, you’re right Chef Kamal seems to have used a lot of it. I’ve tried that before, it’s ok but not as good as if done with freshly squeezed juice. 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. Marcia, this sounds like a great idea. The Best. And you should order soon. Here is our Chicken Shawarma recipe including all the spices needed: https://www.mamaslebanesekitchen.com/poultry/chicken-shawarma-recipe-garlic/. Anonymous. Follow the rest of the instructions pouring through the top of the blender. Stopping occasionally to scrap down the sides of the bowl. 3)Add oil little by little in a steady stream. 4)If your garlic sauce split or curdled. Made some garlic sauce came out really good, i was surprised at how spicy it was, i used canola oil, unless i had a hot head of garlic. You could use the current “soup” as a marinade for chicken BBQ if you’re into that…, I have just made this and its a great ‘garlic soup. After that I could add the oil at almost any ate I wanted and the ensuing paste just got better and better. Hi Julia – this garlic paste tastes great with so many sandwiches.. we’ve tried it in paninis with salty cheeses like Halloumi, and of course the meats.. baked potatoes, etc… I hope you’ll have a great dinner. On the video it looks like he put so much lemon juice. 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 also subscribe without commenting. Still determined, I allowed it to cool, added an ice cube and one egg white. I think half a lemon would have been perfect. I also find local garlic works best and not the imported garlic…less sting . I'm very much against drugs probably due to my control freak nature so drug documentaries don't usually hold that much appeal but she pointed me towards the final episode of the series. /r/Cooking is a place for the cooks of reddit and those who want to learn how to cook. 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. I hit max capacity on my food processor. Required fields are marked *. With the food processor running, slowly drizzle 1/2 cup of the oil into the bowl. In the old days folks used a mortar and pestle to grind the meat and mix it with onions and spices. Will be trying tonight . Using the pestle and mortar is the old fashioned way of doing it and it may even yield a better tasting garlic if we have patience for it. Put the garlic cloves in the a food processor or blender and drip/stream oil slowly as the garlic is being pureed. I am going too try this recipe…. Alf Shukran! If however you have a smaller food processor then it should be fine. Yeah! Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. If you also have a mortar and pestle you could do it there following the same sequence of ingredients addition. An emulsion always involves two incompatible liquids that are brought together by dispersing one into tiny droplets suspended throughout the other. If you like it broken down and more mellow, use this quantity of oil or even more. And although I’m not a betting man, I’m giving odds that your mothers, (let’s bless their hearts), never failed! Wow this is an excellent recipe! Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can’t wait to try it! Run on high speed. One of the woman at the restaurant did tell us that they add jalapeno as well as the garlic, oil and lemon juice. 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!!! I’ m glad you liked it Gary. What is used for spices to season chicken shawarma?!!! Regarding lemon juice, 1-2 teaspoons are fine. thanks for sharing this! I have a question. Love all your recipes, thanks you for sharing the food, time and talent that makes it all possible! Ingredients • ¾ cup garlic cloves • … How would you reduce that to a ratio so that I could make less? Awesome we look forward to finding out how you like it. I have fond memories of being at the beach and eating panini-pressed sandwiches of roast chicken or dry sausage with a generous slathering of garlic paste (and of course, pickles!) I’m sure this will help lots of my family! All Rights Reserved. In fact, don't add too much of any buffer because the acidity of most sauces is an integral part of their flavor. Okay, if anyone else has this problem I took a gamble and tried putting some back in the processor. However I encourage you to try again without lecithin if at all possible. Can you tell me if its the same effect if I use Realemon instead of freshly squeezed lemon juice. Give it a try, you can unsubscribe anytime. 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. Can i use lemon juice in can?? Remove the garlic cloves from the head. 6/23/2020. At this point you should see the emulsification of garlic into a thick paste 6- Add a tiny bit of lemon juice (less than half a teaspoon) then add 1/2 to 1 cup of oil very slowly etc…. But all this is according to taste, I’d say experiment with it a bit with less lemon juice and more oil until it’s no longer hot and then you can adjust the lemon juice. I’ve heard of people using some raw egg white in order to make things stick together at the bottom so you could try that if you are ok with raw eggs. Sonali folks use egg white to overcome the difficulty of making the garlic emulsify. Can you use the blender instead of the food processor? If the garlic paste is too harsh/spicy, you just keep on adding more oil. The Toum sauce is for those garlic lovers like myself. I would try adding half a teaspoon to the garlic and salt initially, make them a paste, and then start adding the oil as per recipe. Reply. Enjoy the world of garlic . 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. Your message was successfully sent. I couldn't get my Toum to … hi, kindly tell me the ratio of oil, garlic and lemon juice in gram or millilitter. I’m now able to make an amazing paste consistently in less than 8 minutes. Thank you! 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! Toum has four basic ingredients: Garlic, oil, lemon juice and salt. Toum – Recipe for Middle Eastern Garlic Sauce. Is this one the same? Adding too much oil or lemon juice will also cause the same effect. Some garlic is hotter than other. Hi Cornelia – The garlic dip tastes great with any light oil such as canola. Have you ever heard of or tried adding some fresh jalapeno? Love middle eastern/Lebanese foods!!! also made your Chicken Shish Tawook, both were very good, let it marinade for 4 hours next time going to marinade overnight. There is just my husband and I so a recipe for 20 is more than I would use in one sitting. . Do this as slowly as possible so the oil is in a super thin stream. I think that about covers it for common "spicy stuff" that goes in sauces. I spent many years in Jordan, Syria, and Palestine but never learned how to do this properly. Thank you again soooooo much!! I would not recommend using olive oil as it gives a bitter taste to the garlic paste. Followed the instructions to a T with my Cuisinart and ended up with ‘garlic soup’. Toum “middle eastern garlic sauce” Ingredients: 2 tablespoons corn starch. 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. Did it thicken due to the second egg white ? anyone try making this in a nutribullet/nutriblast/Ninja Single blast, To see if you can get the same consistency? By the way have you tried it yourself? One year ago:Fteer falahi (layered filled flat bread) Two years ago: Roasted garlic chicken pizza with roasted peppers and onions. I always grind my garlic with salt and olive oil and let it breath for bit and mellow out when I make allioli. 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. 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:-). . Vincent based on my experience if you watch for the following details you will increase your chances of success in making the garlic paste tremendously: 1- All ingredients must be at room temperature 2- If your processor isn’t capable of crushing the garlic, crush it separately with a mortar/pestle or with a garlic crusher 3- Use a large quantity of garlic if you have a large food processor. I found this recipe and followed it exactly as laid out. The brand TOOM Garlic Dips even have a few flavors making it either spicy or basily to mix it up! Excellent idea Jay thank you for sharing!! ... sprout or scape, is make toum, a Lebanese aioli-like sauce of garlic, salt and olive oil. 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. I was wondering how much lecithin should I use to get the reciepy to work cause I don’t want to use raw eggs. Hi, can I use one head of garlic insted of three heads? Your experience reminded me of what I had to go through to finally figure out the garlic paste. . 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. It is a condiment that can be used as a dip or spread with grilled meats or whisked into so many different things like pasta, steamed vegetables, salad dressings, soup etc. Hi Peter- The 2 cups of oil would need 1/2 (half) a cup of garlic or even 2/3rd of a cup. 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. I even banned my husband and child from the kitchen because I didn’t want water entering the area. So my only experience with toum is that I ate it at a restaurant a couple times and couldn’t stop thinking about it. Add the powder to the garlic when crushing then carry on as usual. This makes a cross between the much loved garlic sauce and tahini which is often used in shawarma. The problem was the food processor! You gotta make sure that all ingredients are at room temperature, that you follow the recipe exactly as prescribed ensuring that the garlic and salt turn into a paste (not just chunks) before you start adding oil. Might need to add just a little bit of water during this process to help things along more garlic even... 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