How to make delicious mashed garlic? A few simple tips to teach you

Garlic is one of the most common ingredients in life. It can not only be used as a seasoning for cooking, but can also be eaten alone. For example, making it into garlic paste is the best way to eat it. Before, people would use garlic mortars to mash it into paste, and then add salt and sesame oil to make it taste better, but it is difficult to find such a thing as a garlic mortar now.

First of all, garlic paste must be made by pounding it. Garlic that is pounded or chopped with a knife cannot be called garlic paste. First, use a knife to smash the peeled garlic cloves into flat slices, then put them into a mortar and start pounding them into a paste. If the garlic cloves are not flattened, they will escape during pounding.

Secondly, when mashing garlic, add an appropriate amount of salt together. This will prevent the garlic from flying out easily and make the mashed garlic more delicious. When you hear a "smacking" sound in the mortar, it means the garlic is ready.

Finally, add a little cold boiled water to the mashed garlic. Remember to use boiled water that has been cooled thoroughly, or you can use cold water directly. The amount of water should just cover the surface of the garlic paste. After adding water, mix the mashed garlic and water in the same direction.

The garlic paste prepared in this way can be used to make various dishes such as garlic mashed pork, garlic mashed eggs and garlic mashed cucumbers. If it is to be used as a dipping sauce for dumplings, seasonings such as light soy sauce, balsamic vinegar and sesame oil should also be added.

Additional explanation: 1. It is said that adding cold water in the last step can prevent the garlic paste from having a dead garlic smell. I don’t know what dead garlic smell is. When making garlic paste, the step of adding cold water is generally omitted. The garlic paste made tastes the same. Friends with a sensitive taste buds can try to see the difference.

2. How to eat garlic paste

Mash the garlic cloves into a paste, which requires two tools: a garlic mortar and a garlic pestle. However, these two things are hard to find nowadays, and they may still be found among the people in rural areas. So now the only way to make garlic paste is to use a knife to chop it up and slowly mince it into fine powder. The garlic paste made by this method tastes much worse.