Garlic is an important healthy ingredient to add a powerful vegetable’s spicy flavor, in most of the cuisines, including Indian, Mexican and Thai. Pasted garlic is a handy masala ingredient to make the cooking easier and faster. The problem with off-the-shelf garlic pastes are the unwanted preservatives added to keep it stay long in ordinary temperature.  If we can spend a little time to make a homemade version of it as described in this post, you can have healthy garlic paste that need only – garlic with oil, salt and turmeric powder!

Ingredients

1. Garlic  : 1 kg.
2. Oil        : 2Tbl sp.
3. Salt       : 3 T sp.
4. Turmeric powder    : 2 T sp.

Method

• Peel the garlic and rinse it in water.
• Keep it in a colander for straining the water, after that keep it in a kitchen towel and spread it for drying. If you still see any water traces, wipe it with a towel.
• Put the garlic, turmeric, salt and oil in a mixer and make a smooth paste, WITHOUT adding water.

(make sure to fill the less than half space of the mixer, So do it in batches)

• Move the paste to a (dry) bowl.
• Once all done, mix the garlic paste together using a dried spoon.
• Store the paste in an airtight glass jar and keep refrigerated.

Tips:-

• Always use clean dry spoon while handling the paste.
• For longer storage, keep the garlic paste in small jars .Keep one jar in the fridge and the rest can be store in the freezer.
• If refrigerated, the garlic paste can be used for  3-4 weeks.