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Back to basics - crispy fried garlic 炸蒜米

Welcome To RecipesHitz.blogspot.com | 炸 (zha) = deep fried
蒜 (suan) = garlic
米 (mee) = usually this give-and-take is rice, only inwards this context it agency tiny pieces.

Crispy fried garlic similar crispy fried shallot is real mutual inwards due south due east Asia. Chopped garlic is deep fried till golden it is non bitter only has slightly sweet, caramelised in addition to potent garlicy flavor in addition to deliciously crunchy.

Only 2 ingredients are needed, enough of garlic in addition to cooking oil.

For this recipe I used 300g peeled garlic in addition to  about 1-3/4 to 2 cups of cooking crude (any type of bland cooking oil, peanut, sunflower, mazola, canola etc..)

Peel garlic in addition to mitt chopped till real fine. Be patient alongside the chopping y'all volition larn in that place subsequently a while. Do non chop garlic alongside electrical blender or nutrient processor, this volition easily blend it besides fine the resulting fried garlic volition stick together into lumps in addition to the fried garlic is chewy rather than getting tiny nuggets of crispy garlic.

Put crude inwards a 8 inch saucepan or wok, rut till moderately hot. Add all the garlic all at once. Keep the rut at medium for most v - 10 minutes till the temperature of crude has risen in addition to crude is bubbling nicely only non besides rapidly. Keep stirring. After that plow the rut downward to medium depression in addition to function along stirring in addition to scraping the pan. You should run into a expert current of steam rising. If lilliputian or no steam the temperature of crude is besides low, plow rut upwardly slightly. If the garlic pieces browning speedily around the edges the rut is besides high.

At get-go the the colour is similar this.


When it becomes lightly chocolate-brown similar this plow the rut downward to low. Watch it carefully to avoid overcooking or burning.


When the colour is similar this, it is done. Turn the rut off. Stir a chip to a greater extent than in addition to larn out it to cool


When cooled the colour volition live on much deeper in addition to crunchy.



Once cooled if the garlic is non crunchy, provide to the stove in addition to rut briefly till crude is hot again. Turn rut off in addition to larn out it to cool again.

Use this crunchy garlic alongside the crude equally condiment or purpose to flavor anything y'all like. This is an essential condiment inwards my delineate of piece of job solid unit of measurement for steamboat to flavor the soup in addition to equally a dipping sauce alongside soy sauce. It is wonderful alongside whatever noodles, dried alongside a sauce/ kon low, stir fried or soup noodles. I also purpose it for blanched light-green vegetable or yau choi 油菜 alongside oyster sauce,

I accept converted many of my kwai lo friends who hollo back fried garlic is nasty in addition to bitter. Give this a function if y'all similar garlic. It is seriously additive.

Keep this fried garlic alongside the crude inwards drinking glass jar. Will maintain at room temperature for most a calendar week or longer inwards the refrigerator to stay fresh, flavourful in addition to crunchy.