Hot take: if you add way more garlic than the recipe calls for then you aren’t chopping it finely enough.
I used to triple the amount of garlic until I started to make fresh garlic paste instead of just dicing the clove. The difference it makes cannot be overstated and it allows other flavors in the dish to shine side-by-side with the garlic instead of having spontaneous garlic bursts.
I immersion blended a whole head of garlic into a batch of, I don’t know what it’s called. You take dried New Mexican hot chilies and soak them and blend them for sauce.
Put a whole head of garlic in and blended it up with it.
They were no longer spicy beans, but a pungent garlic explosion.
I had to freeze the batch in portions and add it to other beans just to use it.
The experience nearly ruined garlic for me lol
Garlic absolutely can change its potency based on how you chop and use it.
Hot take: if you add way more garlic than the recipe calls for then you aren’t chopping it finely enough.
I used to triple the amount of garlic until I started to make fresh garlic paste instead of just dicing the clove. The difference it makes cannot be overstated and it allows other flavors in the dish to shine side-by-side with the garlic instead of having spontaneous garlic bursts.
I immersion blended a whole head of garlic into a batch of, I don’t know what it’s called. You take dried New Mexican hot chilies and soak them and blend them for sauce. Put a whole head of garlic in and blended it up with it.
They were no longer spicy beans, but a pungent garlic explosion.
I had to freeze the batch in portions and add it to other beans just to use it.
The experience nearly ruined garlic for me lol
Garlic absolutely can change its potency based on how you chop and use it.