Black Garlic
Key Facts
- Often used in Japanese & Korean recipes.
- Pleasant savory (even plummy) taste.
- Made by ageing garlic cloves over 15 to 90 days
- In a controlled humidity & temperature environment
- Where to buy garlic cloves
Background
Black garlic is great if you would like a unique & distinctive garlic.
- Pleasant savory (even plummy) taste.
- Often used in Japanese & Korean recipes – but great for most dishes for extra taste.
Example black garlic recipes
Often used by chefs it’s used to add a rich, meaty umami flavor to dishes. Umami is the word used by the Japanese and can best be described as a pleasant savory (even plummy) taste
If you use it in cooking then this garlic will add a rich meaty flavour to recipes.
Typical recipes (which don’t have to be Japanese or Korean), such as
The recipes above are all savoury but it will also work very well in chocolate cakes & desserts.
How to use black garlic
Each has 4 to 6 large, easy to peel cloves. Classic, spicy flavor, rich and sweet, roasted.
- The abundance of health-promoting properties of this garlic was already known to ancient Egyptians, Romans, Chinese and Greeks.
Very great unusual garlic to grow – especially if you want to add a ‘different’ type of flavour to your dishes