How to Make Homemade Sugar Pickled Garlic Simply and Deliciously
When eating lamb soup in Xi'an, you'll usually have a small portion of crispy, flavorful garlic to counter the greasiness. In fact, making garlic is very simple, and you can easily make delicious garlic at home!
Ingredients Main ingredients:4000g fresh garlic Vinegar 2000g White sugar 750g, brown sugar 750g, salt 100g
Instructions
1. Choose fresh garlic, make sure the garlic braids are long enough so that after peeling, they are very clean.
2. First, peel off the outermost layer.
3. Remove the longer garlic braids, and then peel off the inner garlic skin.
4. When peeling to the bottom, use scissors to cut off the garlic skin in one piece.
5. After peeling like this, the garlic is very clean, without any soil, no need to wash, can be directly pickled. During the peeling process, if you notice that the garlic is getting dirty, pick it out and eat it normally, and only use very clean garlic for pickling. After the garlic is peeled, let it cool for 2 hours, then pickle it.
|6. Prepare the pickling ingredients
|7. Mix vinegar, sugar, and salt in a pot and cook until boiling. Don't cook for too long. Let the cooked water cool
|8. Thoroughly clean the jar, pour hot water into it, then drain, and make sure the jar is completely dry and free of oil.
|9. Place the garlic in the jar.
|10. Finally, pour in the cooled vinegar and sugar mixture. Cover and store in a cool, dry place. After pickling for 2 weeks, you can eat it.
Tips: The garlic pickled for 2 weeks is very crispy and sweet and sour. Don't think that more vinegar means it will be more sour. It is actually sweeter. If you make garlic this way, even if you pickle it for two or three years, the garlic will remain crispy. The most important thing is the delicious taste.
The special effects and nutritional value of garlic are as follows:
1. Regulate insulin: In recent years, due to the imbalance in people's diet, the intake of selenium in the human body has decreased, which has led to a decrease in insulin synthesis. Garlic contains a lot of selenium, which can regulate the decrease in insulin synthesis in the human body, so diabetic patients can eat garlic to help alleviate the condition.
2. Anti-cancer and anti-cancer: Garlic can protect the liver and promote the activity of liver cells, which can block the synthesis of carcinogenic nitrite substances, thus preventing cancer. At the same time, elements such as germanium and selenium in garlic also have good inhibitory and anti-cancer effects.
3. Reduce Blood fat, prevent blood clots: The effective components of garlic have obvious effects on lowering blood fat and preventing coronary heart disease and arteriosclerosis, and can also prevent blood clot formation.
4. Delay aging and prevent lead poisoning: Eating garlic regularly can delay aging. Its antioxidant properties are superior to ginseng;People who often take lead or have a tendency to lead poisoning can eat garlic, which can effectively prevent lead poisoning.
5. Prevent arthritis: Garlic can "remove wind, break cold", which has an inhibitory effect on wind, cold and damp arthritis.
6. Prevent tumors: Garlic compounds and related substances can effectively inhibit the activity of cancer cells, making them unable to grow and metabolize normally, ultimately leading to the death of cancer cells. Garlic compounds can also activate the phagocytic ability of macrophages, enhancing the body's immune function and preventing cancer. Garlic compounds can block the synthesis of nitrite-related carcinogens to prevent tumors.
7. Anti-inflammatory and antibacterial: The garlic oil from purple-skinned garlic contains garlic compounds with obvious anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties, especially effective against upper respiratory tract and gastrointestinal infections, fungal infections, and spore-forming infections. In addition, studies have shown that garlic contains a "sulfide of propylene" with a killing power ten times that of penicillin, which has a good killing effect on pathogens and parasites. It can be used to prevent influenza, prevent wound infections, treat infectious diseases, and eliminate parasites.
