Meal garlic recipes

MEAL GARLIC RECIPES:

Tips for cooking:

How much garlic may be useful for cancer prevention?

The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, does not recommend any dietary supplement for the prevention of cancer, but recognizes garlic as one of several vegetables with potential anticancer properties. Furthermore, the active compounds present in garlic may lose their effectiveness with time, handling, and processing.

The World Health Organization's (WHO) guidelines for general health promotion for adults is a daily dose of 2 to 5 g of fresh garlic (approximately one clove), 0.4 to 1.2 g of dried garlic powder, 2 to 5 mg of garlic oil, 300 to 1,000 mg of garlic extract, or other formulations that are equal to 2 to 5 mg of allicin.

Raw garlic can pack a punch, and that is what many garlic lovers are looking for. It is used extensively in dips and dressings for raw and cooked vegetables, and in specialty dishes like pesto, hummus and gazpacho. If you are preparing food for people who may not be garlic lovers, go gently with the raw garlic.

Cooking quiets garlic down. Boiling garlic turns the lion into a lamb. Frying garlic transforms the flavour exquisitely, and transfers it to the oil. How much garlic to use is the cook’s aesthetic choice.

So you use your judgment and experiment. With raw garlic start cautiously and add more to taste. Cooked garlic is more forgiving and so you can start with a little or a lot.

Tip - Choosing a Cooking Oil

Most of the common cooking oils - canola, soybean and corn - have a very high probability of containing genetically modified ingredients. Olive trees and sunflowers have not yet been tampered with and so olive oil and sunflower seed oil are good choices. I use olive oil when I want to enjoy its flavour and sunflower seed oil when I do not want the flavour of the oil to intrude on the other flavours

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