Fried Garlic Pwdr ?

[q dawg]

Here's yet another post I have about Guys' triple D show...On one episode there was a woman cook that was making some type of sauce, meat sauce or whatever.....the last thing to go into the pot was....she added some olive oil (fair amount) to a fry pan and brought it up to frying temp. then sprinkled garlic powder into the hot oil...once fried for awhile this was dumped into the cooking pot with the rest of the ingredients....she said frying the garlic pwdr gave it a smokey taste ???

Anyone ever tried this before ???

Q Dawg

 

[pandemonium]

no, but i have sprinkled it on a stove burner to bug roommates before lol, smells like hell i cant see it tasting good?

 

[pineywoods]

Now I'm from the south and we will fry about anything

but I have never fried garlic powder and really don't plan on it

 

[richtee]

Something to avoid with garlic is frying/burning. Gets bitter and nasty. No accounting for taste I suppose?

 

[chefrob]

if it was toasted to a med blond color i could see it but there is a fine line that if crossed is a horrible result. i would just use roasted garlic.....i've even done it in the smoker.

 

[richoso1]

Been there and done that... by accident of coarse.

 

[Dutch]

Taking this slightly off track here~back when I took my cooking classes, we had a recipe that called for garlic infused olive oil. Since we didn't have any gioo on hand, the instructor had us saute some sliced garlic in some olive oil until the garlic slices were golden brown. We would then use the oil in the recipe and we would use the toasted garlic as a garnish for a vegetable or toss them into a salad. I'm wondering if frying the garlic powder was her method of infusing garlic into the oil?

 

[oldschoolbbq]

Now ,if one would smoke some heads of that Garlic,now that would be delightfully delicious!!!!

 

[chefrob]

i have and it is!

 

[athabaskar]

Now I don't know about garlic powder, but I have a recipe for broccoli raab (or rabe, or rapini) that starts by infusing oil with garlic. You thin slice the garlic and then toss it into some EVOO for a couple of minutes. The key is to not have your oil so hot as to fry the garlic. Like many said before, browned garlic takes on a nasty taste that will cover most of the other flavors in your dish.

 

[fire it up]

Fried garlic is delicious!
Never tried the powder but I do use and love fried garlic.
It makes a wonderful addition to all kinds of dishes, great mixed with ground meat or especially with mozzarella and herbs inside of certain things like fatties or stromboli.

 

[chefrob]

never seen that before......looks very interesting.

 

[q dawg]

That stuff looks great....did it come from an Asian or Chinese store ?

 

[fire it up]

Well the sign on the place said it was a "Farmers Market" but that was bull, the place had fresh produce but not from the US. It was more an International Market I stopped at in Delaware that carried Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Korean) Hispanic and Indian items.
Just had a bowl of broccoli and cheddar soup and since I was taking pics i tossed some fried garlic in and it was tasty

 

[richtee]

It will work Dutch...but yer about 45 seconds away from a junkyard tire fire flavor. Powder...to me- would be especially suseptable to crossing the line...real fine and no moisture to moderate the process.

 

[mballi3011]

Could this be to flavor the oil maybe. I have seen that and done it a few times.