Garlic: Harvesting, Braiding, and Making Toum
Anna Glasgow
Senior Garden Specialist
Will Florence, RD
Health Educator
Garlic is nutritious and delicious. Join our Garden Senior Specialist Anna to harvest garlic and braid it for the curing process. Dietician Will shows how to whip up a tangy and garlicky toum recipe. Serve the toum with yummy kebabs or dip vegetables in it for a kick of flavor.
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Garlic Toum
Ingredients
3 clubs of garlic, peeled and sliced in half
2 teaspoons of salt
½ cup of lemon juice
3 cups of neutral oil such as canola or sunflower
Directions
- Add garlic and two teaspoons of salt into the food processor. Blend until garlic is minced.
- Add two tablespoons of oil to the minced garlic and pulse to create a garlic paste.
- Slowly stream the oil and lemon juice into the food processor, alternating until the toum is white and fluffy.
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