How to Crush Garlic

While cooking a delicious meal, you suddenly realize that you are out of garlic paste and hence, you have to make do with crushed garlic or maybe you are trying your hand at one of your grandma's recipes and the dish tastes better with crushed garlic. But the problem is that you have no idea as to how to crush garlic. What to do? Simple! Just read this article and it will give you all the information that you need about crushing garlic. Given below are some tips. Once you read this article it will be much easier for you to crush garlic.

Using a Knife

Learning to crush the cloves with a press is simple, but doing the same without a press, is an art and that is what we are going to learn about now. The steps for doing so are given below and all you have to do is just follow the steps and you will have your crushed garlic in no time.

• The first thing that you have to do is clean a clove of garlic and place it on the chopping board. It's better if you use the plastic board instead of the wooden board because in case of a wooden one, it will absorb the actual flavor of the garlic.
• Next, taking the flat end of a chopping knife, place it on the clove and press it hard, using your palm. This will release the skin of the clove easily. If the skin does not come off, then that means that you have not pressed it hard enough, hence repeat this process again only now press harder.
• After you have removed the peel, using the sharp edge of the knife, start mincing the garlic. No need to worry about the size, just keep chopping.
• Once you are done with chopping it, sprinkle some salt on the chopped garlic. The salt will absorb the excess moisture from the garlic, thus making it easier for you to crush it. Again using the flat side of the chopping knife, gently press the chopped garlic and make a paste out of it.
• Your crushed garlic is ready. You can now use this for any of your recipes.

Wasn't it simple? Now that you have mastered the art of crushing garlic without a press, doing the same with a press will be much simpler. Given below are the steps of how to crush a garlic with a press.

Using a Garlic Press

Follow these steps:

• Get hold of a garlic press from your nearest store. Then take the clove of the garlic and you can remove the peel either by pressing the flat part of the knife or by peeling it off with your hands.
• Next place the clove inside the press and then press it hard until and unless the whole garlic is crushed and pushed out from the hole in the press.

There you have it, crushed garlic in no time. You can now use this while cooking and the taste will be mouth-watering. You might now ask why do we need to go into the pain of crushing the garlic when we can easily just slice it and use it. Slicing a garlic will not take much time and effort. The thing is, mincing or crushing a garlic is better than slicing them because, by doing so the cloves releases more garlic juice and garlic oil and the more oil and juice released, stronger is the flavor of the food in which you are using the garlic. Garlic also has several benefits about which you can read in the garlic health benefits. They are good for curing cold and controlling diabetes, preventing cancer, controlling the blood sugar level and so on.

Now that you know how garlic cloves can be crushed, next time you run out of garlic paste, you do not have to worry. All you have to do is follow the above steps and easily crush a garlic.