How to Make Homemade Dried Garlic Powder
If you have excess garlic on your hands, I highly suggest making garlic powder to preserve it! Let me tell you this: fresh homemade garlic powder makes store-bought powder seem just about as tasty and interesting as chalk. This flavor is unreal! Follow these 7 easy steps to make your own - and you’ll soon see what I mean!
Equipment
- Food Dehydrator, or Oven
- Blender, Food Processor, or other appliance for grinding
- An air-tight glass storage container, such as a mason jar with lid
- Optional: a food processor and parchment paper
- Optional: a garlic peeler
Ingredients
- Fresh Garlic
Instructions
- Peel and thinly slice the garlic into ⅛ inch pieces.
- Alternately, you can use a food processor to finely chop the peeled garlic cloves into small pieces.
- Place garlic slices onto dehydrator trays in a single layer, or spread out finely chopped garlic on trays lined with parchment paper.
- Dry garlic in a food dehydrator from 100 to 130 degrees Fahrenheit, or in the oven on the lowest heat setting (140 or less) until they're 100% brittle and dry. They should snap crisply in half rather than bending. (Time varies depending on method used, see more details in article above)
- Once fully dried, place the garlic in a blender or food processor and blend until a fine powder is achieved.
- Use a fine mesh strainer to sift the blended powder before placing in storage container. If there are leftover hard bits remaining, return these to the blender or food processor and grind further into a powder.
- Store garlic powder in an airtight container with a lid and use within one year.
Notes
Oven instructions: To dry garlic in the oven, peel and chop your garlic cloves. I would avoid using a food processor, as it may make more of a sticky clumpy paste. Next, spread them in a thin layer on a baking pan covered with parchment paper. Bake at 140°F until it is completely crunchy dry, stirring and re-spreading the garlic bits every 30 minutes as you go. We have never done this, but read that this method takes a few hours. Then proceed with grinding, sifting, and storage as described above.
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