What is Garlic Powder? How To Make Simple Garlic Powder At Home

Garlic powder is often used to add flavor to dishes, instead of using fresh garlic, many mothers now use garlic powder. In addition to absorbing food evenly, garlic powder has many other uses for health. Let's refer to the properties and methods of garlic powder to ensure family health!

What is Garlic powder?

Garlic powder is a powder used as a spice (known as garlic powder). Garlic powder is usually smooth, has a characteristic light yellow color, does not contain additives.

Garlic powder is often used to enhance the flavor of dishes, used as a condiment to marinate meats, seafood to fry, stir-fry, grill or stock, even garlic powder can eliminate all odors of meat. Items that use fresh garlic when marinated will not be absorbed evenly, many women have tried using garlic powder, and found that garlic powder makes the smell of food more.

In addition to making the smell of the dish, garlic powder is also replaced with fresh garlic in the processing of sauces, ketchup, chili sauce or snacks ... People who are uncomfortable with fresh garlic may still eat foods with garlic powder.

How to make garlic powder at home ensures family health

Raw materials for making garlic powder at home

Garlic depending on the amount you want

Blender, mortar

Oven

Instructions on how to make garlic powder at home

When buying garlic, you need to choose fresh and not crushed garlic bulbs to avoid affecting the quality of garlic powder. Separate the cloves and peel the cloves.In the process, you should cut the ends of the cloves, which are too dry, or anywhere else they are damaged.

Put all the garlic cloves in a blender, turn it on slowly, or you can cut the cloves into thin slices, the thinner the better, the faster drying is done in the oven.

Then put the paper on the baking sheet, put the minced garlic / garlic slices, before you need to heat the oven at 80 to 100 degrees C. Put the tray in the oven for 1 hour, check regularly to make sure the garlic does not stick to the tray and is burnt, if the garlic is burnt, then the garlic powder will give a bad color and especially will be very bitter.

When the garlic is completely dry and golden, remove the tray and let it cool, then put the garlic in the mortar and crush the pestle. You can also put the dried garlic in the blender again and then grind it finely. When the garlic powder is smooth, put them in a jar to preserve. The finished garlic powder is light yellow, slightly brown, with a strong odor of garlic.

Preserving garlic powder: Garlic powder should be stored in a cool, dry place and especially avoid direct sunlight on the product. After using the leftover garlic powder, store it in a covered jar, never use if the bag has been opened or torn.

Use garlic powder in food processing

If using fresh garlic is difficult to absorb food evenly, so garlic powder is used as a spice instead of fresh garlic when marinating meat, fish and seafood to help to smell much more food.

Garlic powder not only helps to increase the flavor of the dish, but also can deodorize meat and fish very well.

Because they are easily soluble in water, they are a good choice when making sauces, ketchup, and chutneys.

If you don't like fresh garlic, you can use garlic powder instead, because in addition to the fragrance, garlic powder tastes much more comfortable.

Uses of garlic powder for health

- Prevent fungal skin infections

- High in antioxidants that neutralize free radicals, preventing substances from damaging cells in the body /

- Resistant to viruses that cause influenza, stomatitis

- Replace antibiotics in diseases of the ear, nose and throat such as acute tonsillitis, chronic sinusitis, rhinitis, respiratory infections, acute otitis media ...

- Reducing the concentration of cholesterol, lipids in the blood and inhibits the biosynthesis of cholesterol in the liver.

- Anti-hypertension, reduces the resistance of blood vessels

- Help to prevent and treat diseases caused by blood clotting disorders.

Use garlic powder in home hygiene

Sprinkle garlic powder around your home, where pests and mosquitoes are gathered, and the fragrance of garlic powder will keep them away from your home.

Mix garlic powder into pet tick food, fleas will stay away from your pet.

Sprinkle garlic powder around the root of the plant, they can be used as an effective insecticide and safe for health.

Thus, you can completely use garlic powder instead of fresh garlic to increase the flavor of dishes without having to worry about them causing bad effects on family health. You can choose to buy at the store or make at home depending on your needs. Preserving garlic powder in a cool place, away from direct sunlight.