This post is part of Andy Baraghani's Guide to Modern Middle Eastern Cooking. Get all his recipes, tips, and stories here. When I was in my teens, old enough to drive myself around, I would rarely ...

Toum, like hummus, is the Arabic name for the main ingredient and the dip. Zankou Chicken estimates that each year it goes through more than 1 million pounds of toum. Toum has become so popular that ...

An ultra-garlicky toum can elevate a meal to new levels. A smear on a sheet-pan chicken shawarma wrap, a dollop on a balanced grain bowl, or served alongside Greek-style pita bread or crispy sweet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As someone who follows a mostly plant-based diet, I’ve become a little obsessed with toum sauce—the Lebanese garlic sauce that ...

Chicken thighs marinated with lemon and Lebanese toum are grilled until lightly charred and juicy, and served with a cool yogurt, mint, and garlic sauce. Maureen Abood is author of two cookbooks on ...

I’m a garlic devotee. I love it all: full cloves of garlic roasted in olive oil until tender, garlic powder, the minced garlic in those stout little jars with the golden lids, even the garlic paste in ...

As someone who follows a mostly plant-based diet, I’ve become a little obsessed with toum sauce—the Lebanese garlic sauce that manages to be luxuriously creamy without a drop of dairy or a single egg.