Nevada Writer

Garlic chips

by Melanie on 30/05/09 at 12:22 pm

I had perhaps a hundred or so volunteer garlics growing in one of my deep beds, as well as scattered throughout my yard. I needed the space in my deep beds for my seedlings, but I didn’t want to toss the good garlic, even though it wasn’t fully matured. So, I dug it all up (water first, then it’s easy to pull), chopped off the leaves, removed the outer skin and sliced the immature (but wholly delicious!) bulbs into slices about 1/8th to 1/4 inch thick and dried them in my dehydrator. The trick is to dry them until they are crispy and store them in a container with one of those silica packs that you find in vitamin jars to keep them fully dry. For added insurance, I stuck the jar in my fridge. So yummy! You could take these dried garlic chips and grind them into powder in a coffee grinder.

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