Here is a short lesson on how to peel garlic with little hassle. This is a bulb of garlic. It contains many cloves of garlic.
These are the cloves. Not to be confused with a bulb of garlic.
Next you are going to cut off the root ends off the cloves of garlic. The root end is the flat part, not the pointy part. You may get lucky and get a partial peel when you take off the root ends. If not don’t worry we will get the rest off in the next step.
Next you are going to smash your garlic. Lay the wide part of your knife on top of the garlic.
Give it a good WHACK with the heel of your hand. Go ahead…get out your frustrations of the day. The garlic won’t mind.
See? Nice smashed garlic.
Simply pull off the papery shell. I think this is so much easier than using your fingernails or a knife to try and pull the pesky papers off the garlic. Now it is ready to be chopped
, diced or minced.
There you go. Easy peasy.
