Grilled Lamb Chops with Toum and Herb Salad

Name: Grilled Lamb Chops with Toum and Herb Salad
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Lebanese
Ingredients: 1 garlic bulb, cloves separated, peeled and roughly chopped; salt and black pepper; 1 tbsp lemon juice; 200 ml/7 fl oz/scant 1 cup vegetable oil; ½ tsp salt; 1 tbsp olive oil; 8-12 lamb chops; 2 tomatoes, diced; ½ large cucumber, diced; a handful of flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped; a handful of mint leaves, chopped; 1 small red onion, finely chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Life's Too Short to Stuff a Mushroom

By Prue Leith

Published 2024

About

Toum is a Lebanese condiment similar to aioli but uses garlic to stabilize the sauce rather than egg yolk...which means it’s very garlicky. Yum.

Ingredients

8-12 lamb chops
1 tbsp olive oil
salt and black pepper

Asia
Lebanon
Main course
Spicy
Mediterranean
Gluten-free

Method

Prepare the toum by blending the garlic and salt to a paste in a blender or food processor. Scrape down the inside and blend again. Slowly drizzle in the oil while the motor is running until the mixture becomes thick and emulsified. Stir in the lemon juice and season with salt and pepper. Set aside.
Heat the grill (broiler) to medium-high and line the grill tra