Sauces with garlic

Every now and then, I read health benefits of eating raw garlic, I will try it, again and again find the bloating and gas problem hard to deal with.

Recently I tried again, making different garlicky sauces to check the effect. 

confit garlic

1. Confit garlic - mince garlic, cook in goose fat (or olive oil) at low heat, to soften garlic but not change the colour, about half an hour. Keep in a jar in the fridge, very handy to use on hot vegetable, or to make garlic bread. Not very garlicky, so there is not much after effect.

pesto

2. Pesto - raw garlic, salt, basil, pine nut, Parmesan. Normally I omit garlic, this time I do the proper recipe, pounding in pestle and mortar. Very tasty, garlicky, makes any plain cooked vegetable delicious. However, there was serious bloating and gas problem the whole night.

garlic with plum sauce

3. Garlic with plum sauce - I do not like to use raw yolk in making sauce, so thought of using Japanese fermented plum paste instead. Also found using only oil to make the sauce a bit too heavy and rich, how about adding water?

Pound garlic well, mix with plum paste (very salty), alternate adding a tsp of olive oil and cooled boiled water and mix well. There is enough emulsifier naturally present in garlic (or may be plum paste) to blend water and oil well. 

carrot stickdd

The sauce is tasty with the plum taste dominating and garlicky flavor at the background, wonderful as dipping sauce for vegetable sticks or baked zucchini. 

baked zucchini, use very fat ones for the flavor

The good news is no strong side effect! May be the fermented plum helped.