Effect and function of black garlic
"Garlic? Is this also a snack? Can I have it? "
It turns out that this is the so-called black garlic, also known as black garlic, fermented black garlic, which is made of fresh raw garlic. It retains the original ingredients of raw garlic, and it tastes sweet and sour. After eating, it has no garlic flavor and no fire. It is a good and safe health food.
Benefits of eating black garlic:
Black garlic has a very strong antioxidant effect and is a good anti-aging food.
Black garlic can regulate blood sugar, and the content of selenium is more, which can play a certain role in the synthesis of human insulin. Therefore, black garlic can be properly added to the diet of diabetic patients.
Black garlic can also enhance immunity, tonify kidney, maintain liver, and has a good health care effect for sub-health people.
Speaking of this, someone must want to ask, can black garlic be home-made? Of course!
Method of making black garlic by ourselves:
Practice:
1. Select intact, fresh and full garlic, wash it and soak it for half an hour, then take it out to dry;
2. Place the steaming rack at the bottom of the electric rice cooker, enclose the hardcover paper around the pot, put in the garlic, press the cooking gear, and it will automatically become the heat preservation state after cooking;
3. The next day, put a dry towel on the garlic to absorb water and let the steam evaporate. Change the towel once a day until the eighth day;
4. After eight days, turn the garlic up and down once, and adjust the position to make the garlic evenly heated;
5. Put it for another 15 days or so, black garlic will be finished! The finished black garlic is soft and waxy, sweet and sweet, without the spicy taste of raw garlic~
But some people think black garlic is not delicious, because they lose the spicy taste of fresh garlic. As a matter of fact, fresh garlic has its own advantages. Besides making ingredients, it can also be eaten like this~
Laba garlic
Practice:
1. Prepare a clean pottery or glass pot as a container;
2. Select the purple garlic, peel it and wash it, dry it, and put it into a pottery or glass pot;
3. Pour in rice vinegar until it's just over garlic. After sealing, put it in a normal temperature of 10-15 degrees. It's best to get sunlight. Soak the garlic for about 10 days and it's emerald green.