Questions tagged [garlic]
Questions about selecting, identifying, storing, preparing, replacing or cooking with garlic as a main ingredient.
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What are appropriate substitutes for garlic (cooking for someone with an allergy)?
I host dinner parties for a small group of friends and one of them has a garlic allergy. When adjusting recipes I've been struggling to find the right substitute for garlic. Onion seems like the ...
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Is this pickled garlic spoiled? Can I eat the healthy cloves?
The expiration date has not passed and it is a factory product. Why did these spots appear?
Is it harmful to consume this product?
The product quality is low, right?
Before Cut:
After Cut:
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What happened to this clove of garlic? [duplicate]
I'm not sure this is about cooking, but since it is about food, and what I'm asking about looks similar to what could have been a deliberate process, I thought I'd ask here.
The following two cloves ...
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Making Black Garlic
Black Garlic
I wrapped several bulb heads of garlic in aluminum foil and put them in my mini crockpot on low. After the 1st week, there was no moisture on the inside lid of my mini crockpot. I was ...
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What aspects define how present the garlic taste in an aglio e olio pasta becomes?
In Italy I ate aglio, olio e peperoncino spaghetti which had a strong tasting sauce that I really liked.
When I make it at home, it becomes slightly bland unfortunately (e.g. using this recipe ...
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How to fry mashed ginger and garlic?
I am trying to cook some Indian food and the recipes call for frying mashed garlic and ginger.
I find that they turn bitter quite quickly if over-fried. What is the proper way to do that?
a quick fry ...
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Does homemade garlic salt carry a risk of botulism?
Last december I made my own garlic salt, and since then I have learned that storing homemade garlic stuff has risks of botulism. However, most info I can find is about garlic oil, and I am now unsure ...
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The garlic cloves in olive bars in U.S. grocery stores often have little or no bite. How is this achieved?
The garlic that I roast in the oven at home typically still has a bit of a garlic bite in the finish. (This seems more or less independent of the cooking approach that I use. A typical method for me ...
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Botulism risk in garlic naan bread?
I bought some Garlic flatbread naan from Trader Joe's today and noticed it has pieces of actual garlic in it. The bread is sold with the wraps and other non-refrigerated bread. It comes in a plastic ...
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How much onion/garlic/ginger power can I add in 1kg of broiler chicken?
Because of bachelor life and storage issues, I must use onion, ginger, and garlic in powder form.
However, I am failing to find the correct amount I should add to 1 kg of poultry chicken.
What is the ...
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How long should I keep minced garlic in lemon juice?
A problem that I sometimes encounter when making dressings or tahini hummus is deciding how long I need to soak garlic in lemon juice after mincing it.
For context, there are several reputable ...
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Garlic Quick Pickle Too Spicy
I'm trying to make garlic flavored quick/refrigerator pickles, but when I simply try to increase the amount of garlic in the jars, they end up getting fairly spicy. I am using some red pepper flake, ...
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Is a garlic bulb which is coloured brown on the outside safe to eat?
The outside of the bulb is brown at the top, but the cloves look and feel normal when peeled.
Is this safe to eat? What is the reason for the brown colour?
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Is there a way to extract & store garlic oil, without being infused with any other oil, such as olive? [duplicate]
Have attempted to find ways to extract & preserve straight garlic oil. Only info I have found, have "added" oils, such as olive. I just want to know if it is safe to extract the oil from ...
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Infused oil from garlic *peels* - can this be done without making Clostridium growth medium?
Recently I found a book on reducing food waste that suggested making infused garlic oil from the cut-off ends and (inner, reddish) garlic peels rather than the cloves. The recipe doesn’t involve any ...
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