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Curry Chat => Lets Talk Curry => Topic started by: Peripatetic Phil on October 29, 2012, 07:56 PM
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Not sure who reported the "one clove per head" garlic now to be found in Aldi/Asda/Lidl (I forget which) but Waitrose have now gone one better with their Elephant Garlic. A single head can weigh half a pound, and a single clove can weigh over an ounce. Boy does this save time, and it peels so easily as well ! Trying it for the first time this evening in a KD1/PC base (http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=5671.msg56167), and will also make up some g/g paste using it.
** Phil.
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Any chance of a picture of this beast Phil. Could be a godsend. Please let us know how the puree turns out. I wonder if there's a cost in terms of the taste difference because of its size versus the conventional garlic :-\
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I am afraid the picture won't be of the whole head, because I have already used three cloves, but I will try to rotate it so that it is not too obvious ! Here it is ...
(http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/imagehost/pics/4414f7c798b9420f9bcfe90646e10277.JPG)
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Hope folk manage to make adjustments when a recipe calls for two cloves of garlic chopped!
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Now that is what i call a head of garlic. A couple of cloves and i'm gonna be in garlic heaven ::) ::) ;D
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What you should understand about elephant garlic though, is that it is alot 'softer' in flavour than regular garlic. Whilst a single clove of elephant garlic may be almost as big as an entire head of regular garlic, you'll find that a single clove of regular garlic will deliver as much 'punch' as a single clove of elephant garlic. Hope this helps.
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Wikipedia reports that Elephant Garlic is not a true garlic but from the leek family, though it tastes more like garlic than leek, and has a milder taste than true garlic.
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How come no one has made the joke about it being Jumbo sized yet? ;D
I think I'll stick to the real stuff though.
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this isn't white elephant garlic by any chance is it? ;D