Do you like to surprise your relatives or friends with your culinary masterpieces? Suggest next time they try black garlic. You have not heard about him or know nothing? Then this article is for you.
Read further: what it is and how it looks, how the vegetable becomes so, what is useful, who is recommended to use it, and who can not, where and for how much you can buy it.
You will also learn how to prepare it yourself and how to use this healthy product.
What it is?
Everyone knows and saw the usual white garlic. So black garlic, also called fermented garlic, is the same garlic, only the color it receives in an artificial way. It can not be grown on the beds using seeds.
- How to grow it?
- What is the difference between winter and spring?
- What are the rules for winter care and what are the best varieties?
How does it look and how is it different?
Outside, it looks like an old onion, and inside it is black. Let's tell the truth, the view is not very presentable. But how many advantages, unlike white garlic!
- It lacks a specific, unpleasant and acrid smell.
- Unusual black garlic and taste: it is sweet, and in its consistency resembles figs.
- Garlic is better absorbed by our body.
- After fermentation, the content of antioxidants in the product increases by 2 times!
From the video you will learn why black garlic is 20 times more useful than white:
A photo
Below you will see this vegetable in black:
Why is the vegetable that color?
Where this strange color comes from is quite understandable. In order for the vegetable to become that color, it is aged in special conditions from 1 month to six months. High temperature, as well as sugars and amino acids contained in this product, give a substance, melanoidin, during the synthesis. It is he who paints garlic in an unusual color.
Where to buy?
Because of its usefulness, the price of this product is not cheap, but you cannot save on your health. In Moscow and St. Petersburg, black garlic is sold in hypermarkets and wholesale. The price of 2018 at retail is from 250 to 300 rubles per 100 grams or individually, and wholesale from 1000 to 1500 rubles per kilogram. It can be seen on store shelves, as well as purchased in online stores, for example, ECO BIO Market.
Reference. Black garlic is known to mankind for a long time. In Thailand, it was consumed 4,000 years ago. In the tombs of ancient Egypt, archaeologists have found garlic. In the East, garlic is revered as a vegetable giving health and longevity. New impetus to the promotion of this product gave the company from South Korea. She began exporting black garlic to the United States.
What are the benefits and harm to health?
Black garlic is an absolutely natural product without dyes, preservatives and other chemicals. What is this vegetable used for? Garlic is recommended as a medicinal product and for dietary nutrition (it is possible to learn about the benefits and harms of white garlic, for which diseases it should be taken, and for which it is impossible, as well as to look at the most useful recipes using it, here you can learn about advantages and disadvantages of Chinese vegetable and what precautions should be taken when using it).
Positive effect on the human circulatory system and the digestive organs:
- normalizes pressure;
- strengthens blood vessels;
- improves heart rhythm;
- prevention of atherosclerosis;
- helps in the fight against overweight;
- improves liver function;
- activates metabolic processes.
It is recommended for patients with diabetes, as it does not contain sugar.
Black garlic stimulates our immune system, and, like regular garlic, opposes inflammatory processes. Due to its high content of antioxidants, it slows down aging, helping cells to be healthy. Garlic was one of the most favorite dishes of the goddess of ancient Greece, Aphrodite, eating garlic, she remained young and beautiful.
There are no contraindications, except for individual intolerance. Excessive use is not recommended by doctors, like any other product.
Important! When excessive consumption affects primarily the digestive organs, the juice of garlic irritates the mucous membrane of the organs. Therefore, do not recommend eating garlic for people with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
This “miracle” vegetable has a calorie per 100 grams of just 149 kcal of them in r .:
| water | 59 |
| carbohydrates | 33 |
| squirrels | 7 |
| alimentary fiber | 2 |
| fats | 0,5 |
The product contains both vitamins, trace elements, macronutrients, and amino acids. Here is a list of some of them:
- iron;
- selenium;
- manganese;
- zinc;
- beta carotene;
- lutein;
- B vitamins;
- vitamin C;
- vitamin K;
- arginine;
- tryptophan;
- potassium;
- phosphorus;
- calcium;
- magnesium.
Recipe how to cook at home
This "color" vegetable can be prepared at home, but it will cause a lot of trouble. Consider how it can be done at home.
- You need to take the garlic, select without damage.
- Wrap entire heads tightly in foil, can be in several layers.
- Put in a deep dish and put in the oven.
- Turn on the oven.
If you are ready to keep your oven on, at a temperature of 60 degrees for about two months, then you can taste your homemade black garlic.
How to eat?
This product can be eaten without additional processing. Clean and eat like dried fruits. Can be combined with cheeses or bread. Cooks use it in ground form as a seasoning for fish, mushroom and meat dishes. Black garlic can be made sauces and butter.
Reference. Regular garlic is not recommended to be subjected to heat treatment, as it loses its beneficial properties. But black garlic is not afraid of it!
Black garlic oil or compound oil with it is widely used for cooking:
- rice;
- vegetables;
- beans.
Butter is suitable for pizza and sandwiches.
At home, you can cook simple dishes using garlic.
Pickled vegetable
Ingredients:
- garlic;
- water;
- 2-3 tsp citric acid;
- sugar;
- salt;
- seasonings.
Cooking:
- Take the head of garlic, clean, wash, dry.
- Take 500 gr. jar, put garlic in it and pour boiling water, let cool and pour again.
- Add citric acid, sugar, salt, seasonings (to taste: cloves, bay leaf, dill, bell pepper).
- Pour boiling water all together and roll up the jar.
With Chiken
Ingredients:
- 1 chicken;
- black garlic;
- salt;
- spice.
Cooking:
- Chicken wash, dry.
- Grate the chicken with salt and spices (according to taste).
- Peel black garlic and stuff it with chicken.
- Fry the chicken in a frying pan until golden brown.
- Wrap the chicken in foil.
- Chicken should be put on a deep pan, placing a grid under it to lift it over the tray. Pour half a cup of water on a baking sheet.
- Then chick the chicken in the oven at about 160 degrees for an hour.
Black garlic is used even for making chocolate!
We hope that, having read the article, you have received answers to all your questions. Surprise your family and friends!
