How To: Crushed Garlic

I'm going to show you how to crush a garlic clove. In my cook school, it's one of the most-asked questions. Very simple to do: got a garlic bulb here; first of all, we'll separate, and we'll take out one little clove of garlic.

Please don't buy those garlic crushers, you really don't need them. So I'm going to peel the garlic, bring it back onto the board, and we'll take a little bit of salt. The salt will act as an abrasive to help crush the garlic clove down.

Going to chop it up roughly, just to begin. And then, using the edge of my knife as a little blade, I'm using a bit of force, and I'm starting to crush the garlic with the flat of the knife. Make sure you keep it all together as you're doing it.

Don't let it run off the board. And literally, within seconds, you can feel, underneath your knife, the garlic starting to pulp. Just one less gadget to buy, really, isn't it? Crushing.



I can smell the aroma coming at me, it's great.

I'm done! So you use your knife, scrape it off into a little ramekin. garlic clove crushed, ready. And that's how you can crush a garlic clove.