Smoking Garlic

[Gafala]

There is two ways of smoking garlic, where garlic is roosted in oil and salt and smoked for 2 ½ hours and you end up with a soft garlic you can make into a paste, or cold smoke for 2 ½ hours they will shrink about 50% and they will be dry.

Ingredients hot smoke
Garlic Cloves as needed
½ teaspoon  olive oil for each clove
¼ teaspoon  sea salt for each clove

Method
Cut about a ¼ inch off each clove head, drizzle olive oil and add salt, I put them in a foil pan then into the smoker.

Method  for cold smoke
Cut about a ¼ inch off each clove head, I take the cut tops  make a foil pocket add some olive oil for them and them put all in the smoker.


Storage
I freezer them on a cookie sheet first then  put two or three cloves in a vacuumed sealed bag and back to the freezer.

I used apple this time I have used hickory.


Peeled and ready for freezer.

[Saber 4]

Nice idea, thanks for sharing.

[Snoopy]

bookmarked, will be giving it a shot. ? though, on the cold smoke method, do you drizzle the oil on the tops you cut off? or just into the foil pan?

[Gafala]

bookmarked, will be giving it a shot. ? though, on the cold smoke method, do you drizzle the oil on the tops you cut off? or just into the foil pan?

No oil or salt for the cold smoke, and time is the main thing my last batch took 4 hours. They were large cloves.

[ragweed]

Thanks for posting.  I'll try this too.

[Snoopy]

And you smoke em just like the pic, still wrapped and everything? would it take less if i peeled em all first or what would that change?

[murrhunts]

Never used smoked garlic, what would you put it in?

[Gafala]

Never used smoked garlic, what would you put it in?

You can use in roasts, hams just about any thing, I take some cloves and stuff them in roasts.

[beefmann]

it  would give a  great taste to foods  that ask for garlic

[Saber 4]

I'm thinking it would go good in some crusty bread with a good hard smoked cheese

[murrhunts]

sounds good, I will have to give it a shot

[iceman]

Never used smoked garlic, what would you put it in?

We use the smoked garlic in oil/roasted in smashed taters. Takes them to the top level!  ;)

[pz]

I'm thinking it would go good in some crusty bread with a good hard smoked cheese

X2 - would be excellent

[Gafala]

And you smoke em just like the pic, still wrapped and everything? would it take less if i peeled em all first or what would that change?

The last ones I did I peeled them first they came out a little better.

[sage03]

Did you eat them right away or vac-pac like the smoked cheese and hold for a little while?