What is a decent alternative for fresh garlic?

nabowla

I wonder if it's possible to make a HM version of the EPC Very Lazy Garlic? It would be a good way of using up fresh garlic if you've accidentally bought too much. Anyone tried this out?

Pal

It should be easy: Chop up the garlic cloves, put in a sterile jar and cover with olive oil so the air can't get to it. Put on a lid and keep in the fridge.

Let us know if it works. When the garlic is used up you should be left with some tasty garlic oil.

EDIT: Just seen the following link on another thread: http://www.gourmetgarlicgardens.com/pickle.htm. It includes warnings about storing garlic in oil, so perhaps not worth doing? That said, I always cook garlic properly anyway so the bacteria should be dead.

I might give it a go and let you know how I get on. If I don't post again you will know I am in hospital somewhere. END EDIT.

That said, garlic cloves last for weeks and weeks as long as they are kept somewhere dry, whereas jars and tubes tend to go off once they have been opened. Most of the stuff you buy between now and the spring will just have been stored somewhere dry pending it's sale. Onions are the same. Surely it is relatively easy to pick up a few bulbs when you visit the shops every so often. They don't take up a lot of space.

Unless, of course, you are using loads of it at a time, in which case remind me not to visit your house....

blitz

Can anyone tell me how much garlic powder = 1 clove?

Pink.

Hi blitz,

According to this website: cooks thesaurus one clove is the same as 1/8th of a teaspoon.

Personally I think it would be more like a quarter to half a teaspoon but I never measure garlic powder out and just shake it into whatever I'm making.

There's an earlier thread on garlic alternatives so I'll add your thread to it to keep the replies together.

Pink

Edit: my mistake. It's garlic granules I have not garlic powder.

Cerisa

I use garlic powder. It's fine and it works. only problem is i tend to overdo it :T

falady

Hiya,

I use the GIA garlic puree (44p per tube, available from tescos and other supermarkets) and its very good. i find i don't use fresh garlic quickly enough and it sprouts in the fridge, so i now use this instead.

Ali

buxtonrabbitgreen

I always have a tube of garlic puree in. As to the sprouting garlic. Put it in the garden if you have one. It grows again and now we are using last years leftovers. I hung what i din't need on a hook in the coal house and it keeps well.

Skint_Catt

Morrisons do a bag of frozen rock crushed garlic. I haven't found it yet in my Morrisons but Mum's got a bag and its very handy!

nesssie1702

Pal wrote: »

It should be easy: Chop up the garlic cloves, put in a sterile jar and cover with olive oil so the air can't get to it. Put on a lid and keep in the fridge.

Let us know if it works. When the garlic is used up you should be left with some tasty garlic oil.

EDIT: Just seen the following link on another thread: http://www.gourmetgarlicgardens.com/pickle.htm. It includes warnings about storing garlic in oil, so perhaps not worth doing? That said, I always cook garlic properly anyway so the bacteria should be dead.

I might give it a go and let you know how I get on. If I don't post again you will know I am in hospital somewhere. END EDIT.

Be very careful about making garlic in oil, there's a risk of spore forming bacteria surviving in it and cooking provides the right conditions for these spore formers to start multiplying again.....

kittykat500

I get crushed and frozen garlic from Tesco's. It's handy and much cheaper and I can't taste any difference. Block is about £1.29 I think for 500g