35 Garlic uses in Cooking

35 Great ways you can use garlic in cooking

Listed below are the best ways to use garlic in cooking. Garlic has so many great uses in cooking and numerous health benefits that we cannot deny. Growing up and not knowing
many garlic uses or the benefits of eating this superfood. I never liked the smell. I really don’t know how others find garlic smell but my nose does not really accept it.

Even as an adult, I couldn’t stand garlic until I started food blogging and discovered from my kitchen that garlic does taste great if we add it to food in moderation. I then realized that the strong smell of garlic comes when we add too much garlic to our baking and cooking.

Use garlic sparingly to get a balanced flavour

The quantity of garlic we add to cooking in my family is just a little clove. I have a large family. SWe cook large pots of food but the kitchen instruction says not to add more than one clove of garlic to food.

If the garlic clove is large, we cut
in half and use just one half and all our meals are not only nutritious but delicious too.

There may be people who love that strong garlic smell out there. I can’t really stand it. However, right from the day I discovered that garlic has delicious taste if we use it minimally.

I have not looked back. Have been adding garlic to my cooking and even my family members can;t tell that garlic is in the food. The only thing they notice is the rich delicious taste of the meals.

Reasons to add garlic o cooking

It’s important that we all start cooking our meals with garlic because garlic is a superfood loaded with health benefits for the skin, the hair, nails and every organ of the body.

Below is the list of over 20 garlic uses in cooking. These are uses that everyone should benefit from.

GARLIC USES IN COOKING:

These garlic uses will add the best nutritional value to t your cooking…

1.   Garlic can be stir fried with onion and salt and added to salads and other meals.
2. Garlic is used to cook chicken. It gives a delicious taste when added to chicken stock with onion.
3. We fry garlic and onion with tomatoes to make tomato stews.
4. Garlic added to marinades give good flavour when chicken or fish is grilled. Not only the good flavour, the skin benefits too from the healing proper ties in garlic.
5. Garlic capsules have been used by many to cure give a clearer skin.
6. Raw garlic on the skin has helped some fight acne but not those with sensitive skin. If you have sensitive skin, avoid rubbing garlic cause the combined heat of garlic and the sun can cause burns.
7. Garlic is not added to Nigeria soups because it has the power to change the local flavour of the soup. However, it tastes great in Nigerian tomato stews and stir fries.
8. Eating garlic in foods helps give the skin a healthier smooth look.
9. Garlic has antifungal, antibacterial and antiseptic properties that make it effective in the cure of acne.
10. Add half a clove of crushed garlic to juices and enjoy.
11. Garlic is used in cooking fish
12. It adds good flavour and taste to beef when it’s boiled or grilled.
13. Garlic is added to shrimp cooking. It gives a rich nice flavour to shrimps. Crush a little and rub on the shrimp with some salt and crushed onion too. The taste is heavenly.

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