Taste the Difference in Varietal Dried Garlic
Different garlic varieties taste amazingly different. This we discovered as we tasted and cooked with the many varieties of garlic we are growing to sell as organic seed garlic.
To our delight we find that the individuality of a garlic variety survives drying. We have made gourmet garlic powder from four different varieties and each has its own distinctive taste. Garlic mashed potatoes are superlative when made with any of these wonderful garlic powders.
Varieties of Dried Garlic Available - SOLD OUT
We are out of the dried garlic business. The following descriptions are here to tempt you to dry your own. Baba's Blend - This blend has excellent garlicky flavour and strength. Use whenever you want a robust garlic taste. Outstanding in easy garlic mashed potatoes. We have flakes of Baba Franchuk's, Spanish Roja and Puslinch that were in the blend.
Leningrad - Hot, strong and flavourful. A very versatile garlic. Incomparable on sourdough toast. We keep this one on the table with the salt and pepper.
Persian Star - A wonderful flavour enhancer that makes savoury dishes taste better without imparting a strong garlic taste. One of our personal favouites.
Sicilian Gold - An exciting garlic with a wonderful flavour that retains more of the bite of fresh garlic than any other flavour we have tried.
Comparing Fresh and Powdered Garlic
We did side by side tests of the first four varieties of garlic that we dried a few years ago against the fresh garlic. When we tried them on garlic bread we preferred the more refined taste of the powdered garlic in every case. The German Red powder, which is now incorporated into Baba's Blend, produced the true garlic flavour one expects of garlic bread. The garlic bread made with powdered Leningrad had a flavour reminiscent of escargots.
We compared our German Red garlic powder with crushed fresh German Red in homemade vegetable soup. We found that the fresh German Red had a strong immediate impact, a hit at the back of the throat and a full, pleasing garlicky taste. The powdered German Red also had a nice strong hit, not so immediate and with some of the rough edges rounded off. The pleasant garlic flavour of the powder was very similar to the fresh garlic. Without the side by side comparison it would be easy to mistake the German Red garlic powder for fresh German Red garlic.
Garlic Mashed Potatoes
When we tried the original four garlics on mashed potatoes our favourites were the powdered German Red and Susan Delafield, when used with the usual salt and black pepper. Surprisingly, we found that the Leningrad tastes best alone, without pepper. The Porcelain Blend also works well with potatoes, adding some zip. We actually prefer the dried garlic over fresh in mashed potatoes.
It has been our experience that different people taste garlic differently. What is hot to one is mild to another. So your experience of these garlics may be quite different from ours.
Our Dehydrated Garlic
We slow dry our own organically grown garlic in a dehydrator. For optimal flavour the dried garlic flakes are kept in the freezer and made into garlic powder and granules in the blender as required. The garlic flakes keep beautifully fresh in the freezer for a year or more.
| All the garlic sold on this site - fresh and dried - is organically grown on the Boundary Garlic farm in Midway, BC. |
Taste Testing Garlic Powder
A simple recipe like garlic bread, garlic toast, garlic mayonnaise or garlic mashed potatoes provides a novel source of entertainment when a group experiments with the contrasting flavours of our pure organic garlic powders.
Enjoy the fun and satisfaction of playing with garlic flavours with one of our variety packs of dried garlic. If you have never tried gourmet garlic powder made from organic hardneck garlic you are in for a wonderful surprise.
Tell us how you’ve used the different varieties of dried garlic and we’ll post your comments. Contact us here by email:
Dried Garlic Recipes
We have 2 recipe pages using our different dried garlic products, including a recipe for easy garlic mashed potatoes using garlic powder.
Drying Garlic
Drying your own garlic is an easy way to store your garlic harvest for year round use. We have provided a page of instruction on how to dry your own garlic.
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