Freezing Garlic
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Instructions
How to Freeze Minced Garlic
- Break apart a head of garlic, and cut off the root end from each clove.
- Remove the papery skin from the cloves.
- Using a sharp knife, mince the garlic to uniform pieces. If you have a food processor, you can "pulse" the garlic to quickly chop everything.
- Spoon minced garlic into mini muffin tins lined with muffin papers, filling them three-fourths full.
- Drizzle olive oil over the garlic, and then use the spoon to gently press the minced garlic down until it is mostly covered with oil.
- Freeze for 2-3 hours, and then remove the muffin liners from the pan and freeze each garlic "puck" in an air-tight container for up to 6 months.
How to Freeze Whole Garlic
- Break apart a head of garlic, and cut off the root end from each clove.
- Remove the papery skin from the cloves.
- Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment and place the cloves on top, without allowing them to touch each other.
- Freeze for 3 hours and then transfer to freezer storage.
Notes
Store the frozen minced garlic in 8 oz (jam-sized) canning jars in the freezer. I prefer 4 oz jars for whole cloves.
Frozen garlic will last in a conventional freezer for six months. If you have a deep freeze/stand-alone freezer, you’re safe to keep it in there for up to a year.