Basics: What to do with garlic

If you don't have a garlic press and don't know how to crush garlic, here's how, but before you start, a clove of garlic is one individual segment from a bulb of garlic. 



So if a recipe calls for 2 cloves of garlic, remove the white, papery skin from the outside of the bulb and then just pull 2 segments away.

              

Lay your cloves of garlic on a chopping board, cut off the root end, and hit the clove sharply with the flat blade of a large knife, 

                           or the handle if that gives you more confidence,   or just press on the clove with your hand.

this will loosen the outer skin which should then just slide off. 

                       

Place the peeled garlic cloves on your chopping board and sprinkle with salt,

    

chop finely with your knife

and crush them to a paste with the flat of the blade.

Alternatively if you are likely to use a lot of garlic you could invest in one of these     

 

Click here  Garlic Zoom

I love mine and use all the time.