Garlic soaked in vinegar is also called sugar garlic. Sugar and garlic can remove fishy smell,
June and July are the season when new garlic comes on the market every year. Pickling some sugar and garlic at this time will not only taste sweet and crisp, but also help digestion. Chinese medicine believes that sugar and garlic have the function of avoiding poison and can eliminate redness and swelling on people.
Garlic is a spicy food, and it is easy to get angry if you eat too much. The sugar garlic soaked in white vinegar and sugar not only reduced the spicy taste of garlic, but also eased its spicy taste. Therefore, even people with yin deficiency and excessive fire can eat some. Especially when eating fatty meat, eating sugar and garlic can not only get rid of greasy food, but also promote the digestion and absorption of the human body.
Pickling sugar garlic is very simple: take new garlic in spring, peel it, leaving only a layer of tender skin inside, soak it in light salt water for half a day to a day after washing, which can play a role in disinfection and make garlic better preserved; Take out garlic soaked in salt water, drain the water, put it in a crock, enamel jar or glass bottle, and add white sugar and white vinegar. Generally speaking, 500 grams of garlic needs about 750 grams of white sugar, and the amount of vinegar added depends on your own taste; Finally, add an appropriate amount of cold boiled water to drown the garlic cloves, let the sugar melt slowly, do not stir, cover the container and seal it, and you can eat it in about 2 weeks to a month.
After pickled sugar garlic, not only garlic can be eaten, but also the juice of pickled garlic can be used for seasoning. When cooking fish, sugar, vinegar and cooking wine are generally used to adjust the juice. Sugar and vinegar are directly replaced by sugar and garlic juice, which has another taste.
Pay attention to eating sugar and garlic in restaurants or buying them outside. If garlic is a little bitter, it may be saccharin in the bubble. It is best not to eat such sugar and garlic.
Garlic soaked in pure vinegar in Laba Festival is also called Laba garlic. In December of the lunar calendar, this custom is called the twelfth lunar month. The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, commonly known as Laba, is the Laba Festival which has become a common custom in China.
Pickling Laba garlic is a custom in northern China, especially in the north. As the name implies, garlic is brewed on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. To soak laba garlic, you have to use purple garlic and vinegar (it is said that purple garlic is crisp and fragrant, but now there are few purple garlic on the market, and ordinary garlic can also be used). Peel garlic cloves, put them in a small jar, soak them in vinegar and seal them. When the seal was opened on New Year's Eve, the garlic cloves were green, the spicy taste was removed a lot, and the vinegar taste was added with a lot of garlic. Garlic, chilli and acetic acid are mixed together, which is the best seasoning for jiaozi. It can also be served with cold dishes, which has a unique taste.
It is said that this Laba garlic still has some origins. The garlic word of Laba garlic is homophonic with the word "calculate", which has been closed in recent years. All firms have to calculate the income and expenditure of this year on this day, so it can be seen that profits and losses, including foreign debts and foreign debts, should be calculated on this day. However, with the coming of China New Year, people in China always talk about face and winning prizes. They can't go to other people's homes and shout "Pay off the debt". So the debt collectors will suck some Laba garlic and give it away. When the debtor receives it, it is naturally tacit: the debt for one year will be settled. "Garlic" and "suan" are homophones. There is an old saying in Beijing: "Laba porridge, Laba garlic, the messenger who pays the bill, the messenger who pays the debt." It is also a rare painstaking effort to use Laba garlic to collect debts.
Method for make laba garlic
Ingredients: some garlic and a bottle of vinegar (Shanxi aged vinegar or Zhenjiang balsamic vinegar is the best).
Practice: 1 Winter solstice, or start brewing on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Peel garlic and cut off garlic stalks. Then put the garlic in a jar or bottle that can be sealed.
2 Pour the vinegar until the garlic cloves are not visible.
Seal the container and put it in a cold place. 7–10 day, garlic can be eaten after it turns green.
Related: Eating meat without garlic will reduce nutrition by half. Eat a little garlic when eating meat in your daily diet. This is because although animal meat, especially lean meat, is rich in vitamin B 1, vitamin B 1 stays in the body for a short time and will be excreted with a small amount of urine. If you eat more garlic while eating meat, the vitamin B 1 in meat can be combined with allicin in garlic, so that the content of vitamin B 1 is increased by 4-6 times, and the water solubility of vitamin B 1 becomes fat-soluble, thus prolonging the residence time of vitamin B 1 in human body.
Medical experts also found that eating meat and garlic can promote blood circulation, improve the absorption rate of vitamin B 1 in the gastrointestinal tract and the utilization rate in the body, which is of great significance for eliminating the fatigue of various organs of the body as soon as possible, enhancing physical fitness and preventing colorectal cancer. So eating meat and garlic can get twice the result with half the effort.
All of the above are the benefits of soaking garlic in vinegar. Since the benefits are few, it is ok to eat for a long time.