How to cut
2 Cloves Of Garlic
How to Peel and Chop Garlic | Kitchen Daily
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hi I'm chef Brandon swallow from the
Culinary Institute of America and I'm
going to show you this kitchen basic how
to work with garlic this is a head of
garlic is what you're looking at right
here so to break the cloves out of the
head what I actually do is I use the
weight of the hand and I heat put the
heel of the hand onto the actual clove
and just lean on and as you lean on it
break that bulb up and you see that all
these little individual pieces just kind
of pop out and now you have what's known
as the cloves now that's your next
challenge I'm going to use the larger
knife I'm going to place it on top of
that actual clove make sure that your
knife is not angled up meaning the blade
towards you I always do the blade away
and always point it down I'm going to
use the heel of this hand that I'm going
to give it a firm little tap with that
little tap what happens is that cracks
that outer skin of the clove you notice
that the ends already broken off the
clove and you'll see that it kind of it
kind of opens the husk of it and then I
can easily pull the clove outside of the
husk and that root that holds it and now
I have a fresh clove of garlic here we
go I start at the edge and I want to
actually slice as find vertical slices
as I can by not going through the actual
root of the garlic then I turn the
garlic horizontally and I make a slice
down the center not going through the
root keeping it intact I'm now going
back with my horizontal slices and I
have minced garlic now pretty simple
pretty fast and the last thing that I'm
going to speak to you about garlic is
the smell on your hands number one I
know people that take the sea salt or
kosher salt and use salt rub it from
your hands as a stringent it does remove
it there's another one you could go to a
stainless steel spoon you actually wash
your hands and then rub them all over a
stainless steel product it does help
remove the smell of the garlic for more
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