Toum is more than a condiment. Its rich garlic flavor and creamy texture can transform chicken, seafood, vegetables, sandwiches, flatbreads, potatoes, pasta, and more. This cookbook shows you how to make classic toum and use it in creative everyday meals, while also exploring muhammara and a variety of complementary Levantine-inspired sauces.
Inside, you'll find recipes for:
• Classic Toum and flavorful toum-based dishes
• Muhammara, including stuffed chicken, meatballs, pasta, salmon, crostini, and more
• Garlic tahini, garlic yogurt, garlic sumac, and garlic lemon butter sauces
• Toum chicken wings, shawarma, skewers, roast chicken, and turkey burgers
• Toum shrimp, fish tacos, lamb chops, and other seafood and meat dishes
• Toum roasted cauliflower, crispy chickpeas, potato wedges, loaded fries, and roasted vegetables
• Falafel wraps, hummus, labneh, shakshuka, mezze platters, and other Middle Eastern-inspired favorites
• Garlic parsley chimichurri, shatta garlic chili sauce, zhoug, tarator, and other flavorful sauces
• Dips, spreads, flatbreads, crostini, stuffed vegetables, and easy appetizers
Whether you're already a fan of Lebanese and Levantine food or you're discovering toum for the first time, these recipes give you practical ways to put bold garlic flavor to work.
Make a batch of classic toum, then turn it into everything from crispy chickpeas and grilled vegetables to chicken shawarma, pasta, seafood, sandwiches, and flatbreads. Explore the smoky, nutty flavor of muhammara alongside creamy garlic tahini, fresh herb sauces, yogurt sauces, chili sauces, and other versatile accompaniments.
Recipes include:
Toum Hummus • Muhammara Stuffed Chicken Breasts • Toum Chicken Wings • Toum Shrimp Skillet • Toum Grilled Cheese Flatbread • Muhammara Meatballs • Labneh with Toum and Herbs • Toum Roasted Cauliflower • Toum Steak Sauce • Toum Lamb Chops • Garlic Sumac Sauce • Toum Marinated Chicken Skewers • Garlic Tahini Sauce • Toum Crispy Chickpeas • Garlic Parsley Chimichurri • Toum Potato Wedges • Garlic Mint Yogurt • Garlic Lemon Butter Sauce • Classic Toum • Toum Pasta with Lemon and Herbs • Toum Grilled Vegetables • Garlic Feta Sauce • Muhammara Deviled Eggs • Toum Turkey Burgers • Garlic Pickle Sauce • Garlic Pomegranate Sauce • Muhammara Pasta Sauce • Toum Falafel Wraps • Muhammara-Stuffed Peppers • Muhammara Croquettes • Toum Shakshuka • Muhammara Dip Board • Garlic Tahini Roasted Carrots • Garlic Yogurt Sauce • Toum Mezze Platter • Toum Loaded Fries • Toum Chicken Shawarma • Toum Fish Tacos • Muhammara Salmon • Shatta Garlic Chili Sauce • Muhammara Roasted Potatoes • Toum Roast Chicken • Toum Garlic Bread • Muhammara Stuffed Mushrooms • Garlic Herb Zhoug • Muhammara Crostini • Muhammara • Tarator Fish Sauce • Muhammara Eggplant Toasts
From a simple bowl of hummus to weeknight chicken, roasted vegetables, seafood, dips, and mezze, this cookbook is designed to help you make the most of toum and the rich sauces that surround it.
If you love garlic sauce, toum, muhammara, hummus, shawarma, mezze, and Levantine-inspired cooking, this cookbook gives you dozens of flavorful ways to bring those ingredients into everyday meals.
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