This week Blogging Marathon, I have selected Smoked dishes theme. Generally Garlic is roasted on the smoker over wood chips, and put the garlic bulbs on grills instead of wrapping them up or putting them in a covered dish (which would of course prevent the smoke from getting at them.)
This smoking can be done in two ways, HOT and COLD method . Today I am going to share Hot method, where garlic is roasted at 160 to 180 F / 70 to 80 C ,with oil and salt and end up basically with soft roasted garlic.
For cold smoke (up to 160 F / 70 C), they will cook, smoke and dry. No oil is used. The cloves will reduce to half their size. You can store these homemade smoked, dried garlic cloves in a cool, dry place for up to 3 weeks. Note that smoking garlic is mostly a flavour enhancing technique, not a long-term preservation method. (Courtesy : Cooksinfo)
INGREDIENTS:
Garlic cloves as needed
½ ~ 1 tsp olive oil for each garlic cloves
¼ tsp sea salt
Method:
- Cut the end of the garlic and arrange it in muffin tray.
- Drop ½ tsp of olive oil in each garlic and sprinkle sea salt over it.
- On the GOSM BB with cherry wood, smoke it for 2.5 hours or till done.
- Remove and allow it to cool for a while. Peel the skin and Ready to use.
For Freezing:
- Firm the peeled garlic by lying them on the cookie sheet in the freezer for an hour.
- Remove the frozen garlic and store it in the ziploc. Vacuum seal it and freeze it again.
- Best if used with in a week and thaw completely before using..
Note: Can be done in convectional oven but it will miss the smoky flavor but retain the its own flavor..
I've roasted garlic before but I like your method of doing it as a whole head
This is a very interesting way of roasting garlic..
Garlics looks beautifully smoked.
Love to add this smoked garlic in my dips, fantastic post Sara.
very informative post... I did not understand Cold smoking the garlic.. Can u please elaborate???
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Smoky aroma gives a different kick to the dish. Love to see the other two dishes!!! 🙂
I don't eat garlic.. but I visited this post simply to drool over the pics... 🙂
lovely post...thanks for sharing
Interesting kitchen basic tip there..
Nice post....I just used roasted garlic for my soup. Should have seen this post before. Its such a useful post
wonderful...loved it!..lovely clicks and what a wonderful basic recipe.Super, book marked!!
interesting one,very useful post...
Roasted garlic looks nice.
Wow very pretty pictures..love garlic and this is surely a wonderful way to eat them!
This technique is new to me. Waiting to see your other smoked dishes
What a great tip to smoke garlic in muffin tins.. Will definitely try this method soon. Thanks for the tip.
A good method. Saves time. But can u please tell me what is GOSM BB???
wow!!!!There must be a lot of enhanced flavour due to smoking....looks great
The versions I have seen have used the oven, but like you pointed out, it wont have the smokey flavor. The clicks are really good!