Can you reconstitute garlic powder?
Every time I have garlic powder around, it always ends up forming into a hard sticky lump. Is there any way to reconstitute this into a usable form? Placing it in warm water seems to take forever and it never really dissolves.
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I have tried pouring oil in the garlic powder bottle/jar. And you have instant garlic oil for your noodles, roasts etc. Goes long way as oil acts like a preservative. How is that?
You should make a beurre monte.
You need 4 tablespoons of water, and 1/2 cup of cubed butter (about 1 tablespoon per cube).
Bring the water to a boil and just as it does reduce the heat to a low-medium temperature, and start whisking in the butter cubes, whisk constantly and add the cubes one at a time.
Once you see the butter start to emulsify add in 4 tablespoons of the garlic powder, and continue adding butter until the entire 1/2 cup of cubed butter is used)
Strain the mixture through wet cheesecloth into a bowl. Now you have garlic infused beurre monte.
Use it how need after that - it will be very strongly flavoured, use it sparingly. You can refrigerate it if you like, if it looses the emulsification just soak up the water with some paper towels.
Take the cap off the bottle of garlic powder. Put it in the microwave next to a cup of water. Run the microwave on defrost or thaw. Check the garlic powder after about 40 seconds. The garlic powder will loosen. Run microwave a little longer if needed.
I've had this happen with other types of spices as well. I put it in the blender or coffee grinder to loosen it up again. Works well for me.
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