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Pureeing Garlic (Info)

 

Recipe By : Martha Rose Shulman, The Best Vegetarian Recipes

Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00

Categories : 2 Salads 0 Info and Techniques

 

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-- Pureeing Garlic --

 

The easiest way to puree garlic is to pound it in a mortar with a

pestle. Adding salt helps to break down the garlic. In the bowl of a

mortar and pestle, combine 1/4 teaspoon salt with the number of garlic

cloves called for in the recipe. Pound the mixture to a paste. Pounded

garlic is quite pungent.

Another way to puree garlic, without getting quite as pungent a

mixture, is to set the clove of garlic on a cutting board, with 1/4

teaspoon of salt next to it. Take a small sharp knife, or even a butter

knife, and scrape the edge of the blade down the side of the garlic

clove, picking up a little salt with the knife and mixing the scraped

garlic with it as you work. Continue scraping the clove until only a bit

of the clove is left, then mash what is left with the remaining salt.

 

Source: Martha Rose Shulman, The Best Vegetarian Recipes, 2001

Typed and MC Formatted by Eruna Schultheiss

 

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