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What are some good ways to eat raw garlic?

Asked by juniper (1910points) January 24th, 2010

I’m trying to eat some raw garlic every day for my health. (I know, my poor boyfriend, right?) I’m quite the garlic lover, but I’m not interested in eating it plain. I’ve been mixing finely chopped garlic into hummus, guacamole, and oil-based salad dressings, but that’s all I can think of.

Any ideas?

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j3fr0's avatar

Every tried just makin’ a garlic butter and using that in and on everythin’?...

hungryhungryhortence's avatar

When I could digest it well then I liked to crush a clove, smear it on buttered bread and put that in the toaster oven, sometimes with an over easy egg on top, some cheese melted or as a spread mixed in with chilled butter for a sandwich.

_Missconfused_'s avatar

I love quinoa and garlic together. I usually make a little dish with them together and the garlic flavor really stands out. Its very tasty. I usually make it with greek olives, sea salt, olive oil, italian seasonings, and of course raw garlic and quinoa. Its really quite tasty. I totally recommend it. Hope you found this helpful, :)

babaji's avatar

On cooked vegies, cut up a clove and mix it in when you serve it . the garic is still raw.
With fish, lay some thin slices on the serving as you serve it as well.
in salads, sprinkle in little pieces in the salad itself.
Sandwiches, use thin slices with the tomato etc.,
on your omlettes, on top of soups.
my favorite is juicing and always throwing in a couple of cloves…

toomuchcoffee911's avatar

@Missconfused heh heh, your username doesn’t hyperlink because of the underscores I agree completely. While I usually don’t find quinoa to be that great, it’s actually very tasty with garlic.

Trillian's avatar

If you take a toe of raw garlic and chew it and chase it with lemonade it’s pretty good.

ubersiren's avatar

Garlic shots!

Austinlad's avatar

Always with a vampire.

_Missconfused_'s avatar

@toomuchcoffee911 Really? Oh I didn’t know that. I’m new so I don’t really know how to use this site that well. Sorry if its an convenience :/

Dr_Lawrence's avatar

I like it spread on medium rare prime rib.
(Sorry my vegetarian friends, but once in a long while, I eat beef)

ciaoxtina's avatar

I went to Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix recently, and someone in my party asked for some garlic. They served us very, very thinly sliced raw garlic – must have been sliced with a razor a la Goodfellas! – and drizzled with a ton of good olive oil. We spooned that right on top of our pizza, which was just phenomenal. The sharp bite of garlic with the creamy cheeses and crisp bread…and now I want some pizza.

snowberry's avatar

I’ve taken eating raw garlic to an art form. Here’s what we do. First, it’s the garlic oil on the mucus membranes in your mouth that gives you the immediate bad breath.

Make sure that you ALWAYS have food in your stomach before you start taking raw garlic, or you WILL throw it up. You don’t need to have much, but you need some.

My kids chop it up. Then they mash a slice of bread flat, tear out a little hunk, and put a tiny lump of garlic in the center. Make sure you do not get any garlic oil on your fingers when rolling the bread. Then they roll the bread all around the garlic. They keep doing this until the little pile of chopped garlic is in pill form. They then drink it right down with cold water, because it does not dissolve the oil so quick.

I can’t bother with all that drama. I simply chop up my garlic, put it on the edge of my spoon, scrape it off the spoon into my mouth, try not to think about what I’m doing, and I take it quickly with cold water. I’m not sure what time of day is best to take it so it won’t kill my hubby when I kiss him…Still working on that.

I have a friend who rolls her chopped garlic in white flour. She says the flour absorbs the oil, which helps cut down on bad breath. Then down with cold water.

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