I would highly suggest this tip if you use a lot of garlic! There was a time where our family used to buy minced garlic from the store. For the past couple years we have gone back to buying bulbs of garlic again. Buying the minced garlic is of course the most convenient. I do think that chopping your own garlic it has a stronger aroma, and taste of the garlic is a lot stronger.
1. Gather all your ingredients! As shown below are: bulbs of garlic, vegetable oil, and a glass jar with a lid. (e.g. jam jar, hot sauce jar, honey jar)
2. Start with 1 bulb, and seperate it into the individual cloves.
3. Peeling garlic is a little time consuming, in it's original state. So I like to smash my garlic with my knife, then the skin of the garlic will come off in one big piece!!! Lay your knife down sideways holding it with your dominant hand. I've also heard that to get the full benefits of garlic, you have to smash it in order to release the natural oils, in garlic.
4. With your non-dominant hand, smash the knife with your palm.
5. Move the knife away and you should see this! Continue, and smash the rest of the cloves of garlic.
6. As you can see below. I pull the skin off from the bottom, and the skin comes off easily in one piece! Continue to peel the skin off the rest of the cloves of garlic.
7. Have a bowl or little grocery bag handy to throw the garlic peels in!
8. Trim off the tips of all your garlic cloves.
9. Now you should have a bunch of trimmed garlic!
10. Now we're going to slice all your garlic cloves lengthwise into long thin pieces.
11. Below is what my garlic looks like. Now slice up all the rest of your cloves of garlic. Can you tell we're kind of creating an assembly line. This way everything will be a lot faster!
12. Now we're going to cut along the other way. Creating cuts that are 90 degree angles to the slices that we just made. I bunched together about 2-3 cloves, and chopped them at one time.
13. Minced garlic.
14. When you're done mincing all the garlic, you can put your blade a little slanted to scoop up your minced garlic. Try and keep it towards the tip, as we're going to dump it into a jar!
15. Dump the garlic into your jar.
16. Continue steps 14-15 until you fill up your jar with the garlic.
17. Pour in your oil!
18. You can store this in the fridge for about 2 weeks. I love having this on hand, especially if you're going to saute some veggies. You can just scoop up your minced garlic, and the oil you need to saute at the same time. The oil will have a garlic flavor from soaking with all the minced garlic. The garlic, and oil is SUPER DELICIOUS to make GARLIC BREAD!!!! On your slice of bread or french bread, spread this on there, toast, and sprinkle some salt on top!
I hope this was helpful. I'm not sure if anyone else does this as well. Until next time!
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<3 lulu
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