Questions about selecting, identifying, storing, preparing, replacing or cooking with garlic as a main ingredient.
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Raw garlic in Sunflower oil
So I wanted to infuse garlic flavour to my sunflower oil. I sliced one full garlic and added it to cold sunflower oil and let it be for a week. When I opened it, the flavour seemed to have infused ...
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Comparing store-bought chopped garlic
When shopping for chopped garlic at my local grocery store, I noticed that although there were several brands there were basically two price points. Looking more closely, I saw that the less-...
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How do I tone down the flavor of garlic in spaghetti sauce
I am taking a meal to a family tonight, my sauce is cooking, it will cook for several more hours. Right now, it is much too strong, ( I know, I did not think it possible). How do I cut that flavor?
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Garlic: minced, crushed, chopped, sliced. When to use each one, and what is the difference?
I’ve seen, in many recipes, that the usage of garlic varies a lot.
For example: Meaty sauces normally require that the garlic is chopped and fried before the meat is added.
Neapolitan Pizzas usually ...
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Simulating the discontinued Lawry's Roasted Garlic Salt?
Lawry's Roasted Garlic Salt was simply the best spice I've ever had. And had I known it was discontinued I would've bought a few cases.
If you're familiar with it can you recommend something similar....
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Why wine _before_ butter in shrimp scampi?
According to this recipe:
To make shrimp scampi you want to first cook the (marinated) shrimps in olive oil, then remove them, then lightly brown garlic slices, add white wine and let the alcohol ...
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How do I best infuse oil without heating the oil? [duplicate]
I was watching a video on Filipino garlic rice where the presenter said they infused 1 part garlic and 1 part oil for three days. Then they cooked the rice in a rice cooker with that oil and the ...
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How long does jarred chopped garlic keep?
I have some chopped garlic in a jar (from Spice World if it matters). I have used it. Not sure when, but it is open. The best by date is June 2018.
My question: I have always heard that after opening ...
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How to know when a recipe shouldn't contain onion/garlic?
When travelling at a campsite, our resident cook made a Bolognese, and for fun I asked the Italian campers what they thought about it (playing on the stereotype that they are serious about their food) ...
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How do you remove the aftertaste of raw garlic? [duplicate]
After eating a meal with raw garlic, the taste can persist for many hours, including the following morning. Is there something you can do or eat to remove this aftertaste? Mints and mouthwash mask ...
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What is ' chicken garlic chicken '
I was at a Brewers Fayre pub and saw this on the menu (pictured)
When it arrived it was an egg on top of a garlic and breadcrumb chicken breast. Why call it chicken garlic chicken? The waitress didn'...
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Garlic brown spots, safe to eat the rest of the bulb?
The spots are bruises that bacteria have infected right? There is a slight discolouration into the "meat" of the garlic. Ok to eat the rest? With a bit of discolouration? Without?
If there were ...
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Structure of tomato, ginger and garlic after blending in a blender
Found a new recipe, and it called for blending two (average sized) tomatoes, about a tablespoon of grated ginger (15 grams let's say), and four grated garlic cloves. Blended it all, everything fine.
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How long does it take garlic to germinate in the fridge?
If left in the fridge, how long does garlic take to germinate? I have experienced the green sprouts in the past, and was able to chop them off and eat the remaining garlic. I am curious add to how ...
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Why do garlic pots have holes?
If garlic pots didn't have holes, why would the garlic in it get soggy (which as I understand it means moist). After all, garlic as bought at the store is dry, and to my knowledge doesn't have much ...
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What is the best place to store garlic in the kitchen?
I've been at a friend's house. When I looked for the garlic I the fridge my friend said garlic doesn't go in the fridge. But another friend said garlic lasts longer if placed in the fridge, even when ...
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How to mince garlic efficiently without the garlic sticking to the sides of the knife?
Whenever I mince cloves of garlic on a cutting board, it sticks to the sides of the knife making it a tedious task? Is there anyway to prevent this from happening when using a knife to mince garlic ...
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If I want my garlic to taste in a very specific way (with bite or without bite) what should I do?
I don't always want my garlic to taste the same way. Sometimes I want only the deep umami flavor without the bite (so I let it cook more) and sometimes I look for a strong garlic bite presence in the ...
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Is garlic peel safe to eat?
I ask NOT about the white outer layers that must be peeled and I do peel. But I lack the time to peel the red peel off cloves. Is it safe to eat?
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how to cook with garlic and how to use in cooking and salads [closed]
I like the taste of Garlic, can anyone tell me how to use it please? can you use it in salad or cooking like stew or pasta ECT ?
Please help.
thanks Trev
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How do I properly mince garlic?
I often need to mince garlic to add to any number of dishes. If I don't want to use a garlic press or microplane, how do I mince it with a knife? What type of knife should I use and how should I cut ...
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Substitutes for onion and garlic [duplicate]
My husband had a heart attack. Quite a few of his medications have a prohibition on both onions (all types including chives, shallots, leeks, spring onions, powders, etc) and garlic. We both enjoy the ...
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Garlic Cloves Size Differentiation
I understand the ins and outs of peeling, what a clove is, mincing, crushing, etc., as I am new to cooking and learning one step at a time. My question is about size. When I purchase a bulb of ...
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Will peeled garlic cloves that are stored for later use lose their flavor?
I find the act of peeling the garlic very painful so I just throw one garlic head into a pot, shake it and then all the skin comes off and I can slice it immediately for later use.
I wonder however ...
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What is coffee garlic?
Gordon Ramsey did an AMA on reddit. He said this:
"I would go down the rouse of recently we've been using lots of dry
spaghetti, with lots of coffee garlic, chili, preserved lemons. Once
we've ...
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Garlic clove has turned to a firm jelly texture
I keep my garlic on my kitchen shelf by the window. Out of the whole garlic bulb one the cloves has changed to a yellow/orange colour and its texture is like hard jelly. Its slightly squidgy but firm.
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How do you get garlic to stick to green beans?
When sautéing green beans (or snap peas, asparagus, etc) in butter with garlic, how do you get the garlic to stick to the beans?? I've tried varying the amount of butter up and down, and I've even ...
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Mixture of ingredients has a bitter taste
I put ginger, cilantro, red onion, jalapeno and garlic in a blender for a dish I'm preparing. This mixture was going to be fried in oil. I noticed that it had an extremely bitter taste - what could be ...
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Purple garlic color change [duplicate]
I bought a bag of peeled garlic cloves as a convenience(I know, shame on me) I stored the unused cloves in the fridge and the began to show purple areas on the cloves. I don't think this is anything ...
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How do you know how much garlic to add to a dish and in what form?
I always shy away from using garlic because it is such a wild card. It burns easily, and how you chop, dice or grate it has a MAJOR effect on flavor so there is not much reference experience from ...
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Onion and Garlic, a no-no?
I had an Italian flatmate once who was on the brink of lynching me when he saw I used garlic and onion in one dish. He said that - at least in Italian cuisine - thats an absolute no-no. You can use ...
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Why would I add garlic to a recipe after onion with such a small time difference?
I have a recipe for Tomotillo & Green Chili soup that calls for one diced onion to be sautéed for 3 minutes prior to adding the four diced garlic cloves all of which is then cooked for an ...
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What's the best way to get roasted garlic out of its skin
I am quite fond of oven-roasted garlic, but I always spend ages getting the meat out of their skin. In addition my fingers get rather sticky when I follow the method described in the linked recipe, ...
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How do I bring out the garlic flavor in an oil base?
I make a lot of Indian food, so the preparation begins with a base made of onions, ginger, and garlic. I start by frying the onions in oil and then adding ginger and garlic as the onions begin to ...
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Garlic butter sauce
My family loves pasta with butter,garlic,and black olives topped with Parmesan but now I'm in a home with a gas stove and it causes the butter to clump to pasta and no longer is like a sauce stirred ...
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How does removing the germ of garlic help with breath/digestion?
I have recently heard from a friend who is a chef, that removing the germ in a garlic clove helps with reducing the garlic breath and also avoids digestive problems some people have when eating garlic....
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How much minced garlic is one clove?
I have a recipe that calls for 2 cloves of garlic, but all I have is minced garlic. How much minced garlic do I use per clove?
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What are the white tendrils at the bottom of these garlic cloves?
What are the white tendrils at the bottom of these garlic cloves? Are they the beginning of new roots? I'm afraid they are indications of fungus or mold.
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Preparing minced garlic the night before using them
Is it okay to prepare minced garlic the night before I use them? I'll be cooking really early in the morning and i want to prepare the minced garlic ahead. Is it safe and will it affect the look of my ...
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Why is my garlic brown and slightly translucent?
I have a whole garlic where almost all cloves are slightly brown, a bit translucent and soft. This is a photo of one of the cloves:
The cloves are also a bit sticky when peeled. It reminds me a bit ...
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Is it ok to include garlic when I can hot peppers?
I followed the Ball Blue Book recipe for canning hot vinegared peppers. I left the peppers whole, and forgot to discard the garlic from the vinegar recipe before I filled the quart size jars & ...
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Why did my ginger garlic paste have a bitter aftertaste?
I cooked a base for indian sauce based on lots of onion, homemade ginger garlic paste, some veggies (I used carrot, a little napa cabbage, bell peppers) and spices. After cooking, the sauce had an ...
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How to remove garlic smell from refrigerator/ice maker
Is there a certain cleaner or chemical that will remove a lingering garlic odor from an ice maker or other food processing equipment?
About a month ago, my wife and I noticed that the ice from our ...
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Can you reconstitute garlic powder?
Every time I have garlic powder around, it always ends up forming into a hard sticky lump. Is there any way to reconstitute this into a usable form? Placing it in warm water seems to take forever and ...
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How do I avoid splatter when frying ginger garlic paste?
I see in all cookery shows that they use ginger garlic paste with ease. When I bought a sachet of the same and put it in oil, it spluttered so much that all of my stove surface ended up oily. How do I ...
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How much black garlic to substitute for regular garlic in a slow-cooker?
My wife and I are currently making a slow-cooker brisket taco recipe and decided to substitute black garlic for the garlic it called for. The recipe called for two medium cloves and I used the same ...
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Does roasted garlic leave no aftertaste and smell
I saw in a recipe book by the Grill company Weber where they claimed that if you roast a garlic over medium heat in the grill, until it becomes pulp, and then slather it on your baguette and eat it, ...
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What is the best way to infuse garlic flavor in the bland brown rice?
I have got fresh garlic cloves. I want the brown rice to have a garlic flavor.
Please mention the garlic quantity needed for the 5 table spoons of uncooked brown rice.
What is the best way to infuse ...
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Raised brown spots on garlic
Occasionally I'll get a clove of garlic that has small brown spots on it. When there are a couple spots, I cut them off and use the rest of the garlic. Sometimes there will be A LOT of spots and ...
