- Raw garlic is more potent than cooked garlic. When garlic is cooked, some of the starch converts to sugar, making it less pungent.
- Be careful not to overbrown or burn garlic or it will become very bitter.
- Crush a whole garlic clove by putting it under the flat blade of a knife then banging the knife with your fist.
- Flavour oil with garlic by frying slices in the oil, then straining the oil.
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