Garlic trick

By TheresaJ

Ingredients

• Garlic Trick
• It's frustrating to wrest a garlic clove from its skin only to have half of it stick to the knife when you chop it.

Preparation

Step 1

Try this: sprinkle a pinch of kosher salt and a drop of olive oil over the cloves before chopping; the salt acts as an abrasive, helping to pulverize the garlic, and the oil lets it slide off the blade. To make a paste, lay the side of the knife on the garlic and, applying even pressure, drag it across the garlic several times.



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