🤫 Lemme tell ya a secret about homegrown garlic šŸ§„ Store bought garlic has NOTHING on what you can grow for yourself. Wowza!! 😲 When I first started the dehydrating process, I nearly cleared us out of our home. No wonder vampiresšŸ§› have an issue. šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚ Okay but for real…get your garlic ASAP because it needs to go in the ground in October! Pick a spot that won’t be disturbed until June-ish when you’ll be harvesting it. If you can, snag your garlic from @madrivergarlicgrowers (it’s where I bought mine for next season’s garlic harvest). If you can’t, grab some organic garlic and use that. Harvest your garlic. Let it cure (I cured mine for over 3 months). Remove the paper skins. Now you have 2 options: slice it thinly or food processor it up to a minced paste. I chose the latter. Partly bc I was using my @ninjakitchen Foodi and didn’t have any dehydrator trays and didn’t want to lose any slices on my parchment paper. Place in your dehydrator on 115-125F for 6-8 hours. I went 125 for 6 hours. And then checked it not quite done. I did 115 for 1 hour and still not done. And then 110 for 1 hour and it was finally dry. Put it in a food processor to create a powder. Store in a glass jar in your spice cabinet. Note 1: my little processor wasn’t stout enough to process it down to a powder. So I bought a coffee grinder which had zero problems! @walmart for $15 Note 2: I put my Ninja Foodi on my back porch. I do not recommend processing inside. šŸ˜† Note 3: darker vessels are better than clear vessels. Only had clear, so that what I used. But darker will keep better. Or so they say. Note 4: get you some silica inserts to keep moisture out of your powder. I ordered mine from Amazon. LTKHome LTKSeasonal

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