We recently bought a dehydrator; which is going to make
preserving herbs, fruits, peppers, etc. so much easier! I had previously be using my oven at a low setting
for hours, which I’m sure used a lot more energy than a dehydrator.
Since we don’t have much in the garden ripe for preserving
right now, I decided to make garlic powder for my first project. I love garlic powder, but I just can’t bring
myself to buy that preservative filled powder at the grocery store.
I used 5 heads of garlic.
Unwrapped all the cloves, sliced them up and dehydrated them at 105° F
for around 24 hours. Next time I will
slice the garlic thinner to speed it up.
I ground the brittle cloves up in a blender, strained out
the big clumps and reground them until I had nice smooth powder.
My 5 heads of garlic filled up a half pint mason jar.
It tastes amazing, the house smells wonderful and I can’t
stop putting it on everything! Pasta,
pizza, calzones, veggies, eggs, salads, breads.
We are going to put this dehydrator to very good use!
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