One of my favorites ingredients in the kitchen is garlic
And today we're gonna learn how to make something really special; and that is black garlic
The process is quite simple
you're gonna need some lovely fresh garlic and
You're gonna need a slow cooker. At least for the method that I'm gonna use. You can use other methods
But this I find to be one of the simplest
I've brushed off any excess dirt and you can use a dry sponge a nice clean dry sponge
You don't want to peel these you want to make sure the skin stays on then we just layer them
down the bottom of your slow cooker
Try not have them all on top of each other
And there we go, you don't wanna put anything else on top
now all you need to do is
close that up, stick it on to "keep warm" and
That's pretty much it. We're gonna leave this now for sixty days and at that time we should have some beautiful black
garlic
All you need to do during that period of time is just check on it to make sure that your slow cook is still on
make sure that it is on keep warm and not low or high because that will ruin this and
You shouldn't have any problems. So we'll come back to this in just a little while
It's been just over two months now since we started the garlic and I'm really excited to have a look at it
I haven't opened it up yet and
I really hope it has worked out and
A lot has happened in that time. I have no longer got any hair. I also reached a hundred thousand subscribers
So, thank you guys so very much
There's gonna be a video coming out in the near future as soon as this lockdown finishes and we'll be celebrating that properly
But back to this, let's have a look at this black garlic and well
Let's hope we've actually made black garlic and see how we did
Wow that is
Incredible that smell is just awesome
When I started this for the first week
the garlic smell was seriously overwhelming really really strong and it's kind of mellowed out over the period of the last 60 days and
At the moment, it's not
Really terribly strong or sharp, but it's still got a distinct garlic smell. So let's take one out and
See if we have some success
This is quite a lot lighter than we started with. I think yeah, they pretty much all are quite a lot lighter, but
Let's cut that open. I really hope this has worked. If not, it's back to the drawing board
We're gonna have to try a different process
Well, we have black garlic that just looks and smells incredible
I'm wondering if some of the other processes maybe keep a bit more of the moisture, but this
Looks like what I expected actually
It's time to give this a bit of a try. I'm not gonna take too much of it
Let's try just that it's kind of waxy and
My fingers are gonna smell like garlic all day, aren't they? Let's give this a try
Wow
That is that is pretty mind-blowing actually that is honestly the first time I've ever tried black garlic
It's um...
It's like garlic candy, it's
amazing
How do I describe it? So?
There's a bit of a lemony type taste to it
Definitely you can taste that. It is garlic. It's really sweet
It honestly just
tastes like
Candied garlic. It's amazing. Honestly, give it a try. Try make it for yourself for try and buy some it is phenomenal
It's got a really intense Umami flavor, which I absolutely love
that
Is incredible I'm looking forward to seeing what Mrs. ChilliChump thinks of it, but this is
what an ingredient
I have something a little bit special planned with all this black garlic and that will be coming up in a video in the next
week or two and
The results of that video are going to be put into my online shop in case you haven't been there
it is chillichump.com/shop and I have sauces and spices and my recipe book up for sale there and
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I hope that you're going to try this because it is phenomenal and
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