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Toum is my favorite thing in the whole wide world! These look amazing, Carolina!

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awwww!!!

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These look so good - what a great and easy appetizer option for the holidays! 🙌

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riiight?!

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Carolina, I love this recipe. It would make a perfect finger food for New Years Eve. I think I would use Lamb.

I wonder if substituting tofu for meat would work for vegetations.

Cheers

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absolutely!!! I would use crumbled firm tofu, cooked with all these spices until there's not a lot of liquid coming out of it :) Make sure to taste as you go, the tofu might need some extra flavor so don't hesitate to add more spices to it

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Made this today so yummy ! Really 5 out of 5 !

Can I replace the beef with chicken ? And I want to try to bake it instead, what do you think?

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interesting, and fun.

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I followed your recipe in making the Toum, but it came out very lemony. Is that normal? [I used freshly squeezed lemon]. I was trying to make something similar to mujdei for my Romanian husband, but this version seemed to be overpowered by the lemon.

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Sorry to hear that! Toum is definitely on the brighter side, it’s tart and garlicky, I wouldn’t say it’s close to mujdei flavor wise (besides both being garlicky haha). I should share a mujdei recipe one of these days!!!

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deletedDec 3, 2023Liked by Carolina Gelen
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hahhahahaah!!! I hope you do and let us know their reaction

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deletedDec 3, 2023Liked by Carolina Gelen
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hehehehe

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