Eating Garlic In Daily Diet:How More Garlic Benefits Your Health:Eat Homemade Irish Soda Bread:Good With Wild Garlic

The Health Benefits of garlic in your daily diet wild garlic Irish soda bread: Hello and welcome.This hub will explain the health benefits of cooking with Garlic and fresh herbs and why you should include it in your daily diet. Garlic has many health benefits but above all it makes a meal taste great. When added to fresh herbs and other fresh ingredients you have the makings of a quick and easy healthy meal for you and all your familys health. I will explain the medicinal properties of Garlic and the benefits of having it in your daily diet. I will also include videos on growing your own garlic and fresh herbs so you can include them in your cooking straight from the garden. There is nothing more satisfying than to cook a meal with your own home grown ingredients and the health benefits of eating fresh products are amazing.

Garlic Angel :-)

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Health benefits and uses for garlic Garlic's health benefits and medicinal properties have long been known. Garlic has long been considered an herbal "wonder drug", with a reputation in folklore for preventing everything from the Plague! To the common cold. It has been used extensively in herbal medicine (phytotherapy, sometimes spelt phitotherapy).

Raw garlic is used by some to treat the symptoms of acne and there is some evidence that it can assist in managing high cholesterol levels. It can even be effective as a mosquito repellent.

In general, a stronger tasting clove of garlic has more sulphur content and hence more medicinal value it's likely to have. Some people have suggested that organically grown garlic tends towards a higher sulphur level and hence greater benefit to health.

In my experience it certainly tastes better so I buy organic or grow my own whenever possible whether or not it's best for my health.

Garlic Angel :-)

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Remember that a single bulb of garlic usually contains between ten and twenty individual cloves of garlic. Individual cloves are covered with a fine pinkish purple skin. The head of cloves is then covered with white papery outer skin. Don't confuse cloves and bulbs! Neither the inner nor outer skins should be eaten.

To prepare garlic, first strip off some of the papery covering from the bulb. Now ease out as many cloves as required. Garlic cloves come in a wide variety of sizes, so the numbers given in a recipe should be treated as a rough guide only. Once you get used to cooking with garlic you will probably find yourself using more than the recipe states.

In general with garlic, the finer the chop the stronger the taste. Crushed garlic has the strongest taste of all and if used raw is only for the real aficionado. When cooked whole garlic has a much milder, rather sweet taste. There is a famous recipe "chicken with forty cloves of garlic". It should go without saying that these are whole garlic cloves not crushed!

Garlic also mellows the longer it is cooked. Garlic added at the end of cooking will give a stronger taste than garlic prepared the same way but added earlier.

Garlic Angel :-)

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You can’t beat a quality Irish soda bread. This is an Irish recipe that’s passed from chef to chef, and it gives brilliant results. I’ve added an early spring twist to it by adding wild garlic.

Preheat your oven to 180C/gas 4. Put a wide pan on a medium heat and add a good lug of olive oil. Add the wild garlic (or spinach), stir and cook for 3 minutes, until wilted. Pour in the buttermilk, remove from heat and blend with a stick blender until you’ve got green milk.

Ingredients

Olive oil

1 small handful of washed wild garlic leaves, or spinach with a crushed garlic clove

250ml buttermilk

175g wholemeal flour, plus extra for dusting

175g strong bread flour, plus extra for dusting

1 tsp sea salt

¾ tsp coarsely cracked black pepper

1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

22g salted butter, chilled and cubed

Add the dry ingredients and butter to a large bowl with butter and use your fingers to rub the butter into the flour until you have the consistency of breadcrumbs. Make a well in the centre and pour in your green milk, a good splash at a time. Combine with a wooden spoon until perfectly mixed and you have dough.

Dust a surface with flour, pop the dough on top then roll into a large sausage, then cut into 8. Lightly oil a baking tray. Out the dough pieces on the tray, sprinkle over some wholemeal flour then put in the oven and cook for 20 minutes or until lightly golden on top. Remove from the oven, then pick one up and tap the bum. If you get a hollow sound they’re perfect, so put them on a wire rack to cool.

Enjoy Garlic Angel :-)

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This is a great video on how to make Tai green cabbage salad. It is so easy to put together and also such a healthy meal for you and all the family. I hope you enjoy watching and learning from it. If you are interested in more videos you can get them from YouTube which has lots of great videos of a similar nature. Garlic Angel

This video is great and explains the best way of planting garlic. There is nothing more satisfying than growing your own garlic and cooking it fresh straight from your garden.

The taste is amazing and once you start it is very hard to go back to shop bought garlic. So get planting and eat healthy.

Garlic Angel :-)

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These videos will explain the advantages of having garlic in your daily diet and the medical properties of garlic.

They will explain how having garlic in your daily diet can lower your cholesterol, thin your blood and all the other health benefits you can get from garlic.

They also explain the best way of cooking garlic so as not to destroy its benefits by overcooking garlic. You will be amazed at how good garlic really is for you and hopefully after watching you will included it in your daily diet in order to get the health benefits and its great taste of course.

So enjoy and eat healthy.

Garlic Angel :-)

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I love this video of how to cook pesto sauce. This is a great sauce to have in your fridge for a meal or served with plenty of olive oil with homemade bread as a snack. I always have this sauce along with my basic tomato pasta sauce for when I have unexpected guest that need to be fed.

Garlic Angel :-)

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Eat and stay healthy with garlic and fresh herbs in your daily diet

I hope you have enjoyed this article hub on garlic and its health benefits. I use garlic and fresh herbs on a daily basics not only for the health benefits but the taste.

Garlic can really make a dull meal taste great and fresh herbs added can give it that special requirement for any occasion.

The Irish wild garlic soda bread is a must for all kitchens in my opinion, and I have included it in mine and my family’s daily diet.

My fridge and freezer are always stocked with plenty of homemade tomato sauce for pasta and plenty of homemade meat balls for any unexpected guests. I also have plenty of pesto sauce on the go at all times.

Please feel free to leave a comment at the end of this page as I would love to hear your views on the subject of garlic and fresh herbs in your daily diet and if you have any tips you would like to share we would be grateful for the input. Thank you for thaking the time to read this article hub and I hope it has brought you as much enjoyment as it has for me and my familys daily diet.

So be prepared and stay healthy.

Garlic Angel :-)

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