Garlic it!

Garlic is an amazing ingredient which by itself is stinky and awful in taste. However, when added to curries it brings out aroma and flavour which is well missed in its absence. Garlic is also said to have various medical benefits. People do boil it up and drink the water it was boiled in. To me that's an eek thought! Bad breath is one of the by products which will ruin your appetite for garlic. 

 

For whatever it's worth here are some tips to help Garlic spice up your life

1. Garlic can be left either in or outside the refrigerator. Either way it has an expiration date (roughly about two weeks from the date of purchase)
2. if you are refrigerating it, make sure it is in a covered container by it self. Like onions they have a tendency to share their aroma with neighbouring food.
3. don’t waste time peeling out the garlic pods. Use a meet tenderizer (looks like a wooden hammer) to pound it and the peels will come off easily
4. Don’t bother chopping: smash up a few garlic with ginger for extra flavour for your curry
5. store the extra in a bottle for another time
6. If it seems like too much work just buy a bottle of ginger-garlic paste and keep it refrigerated
7. Mix garlic powder with butter. Make a spread on bread and toast or bake for some crunchy garlic toast.
8. If its too much work just buy frozen garlic toast and bake when necessary
9. Add garlic powder to cheese toast if you like to make it a little interesting
10. Never cook the lentil dhal without garlic (I don’t know why; my mom said so)
11. Enjoy garlic spread with crackers (I never tried that)

having garlic and ginger powder around the kitchen is handy when you run out of fresh garlic or ginger!