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Some folks hate it and avoid it like the plague. Yet there are others that fall somewhere in-between If you consider yourself a card-carrying member of the "Garlic is Good, But Not Too Much Please" club and don't have a large amount of cash to blow on buying the mellower-flavored black garlic , then an easy way to mellow out the flavor of garlic is probably in your best interests.
The primary culprit for that sharp bite and smell that most associate with garlic is called allicin, a molecule that is only produced when garlic's cell walls are ruptured. In order to neutralize garlic, you need to deactivate alliinase: the enzyme that produces allicin.
Before I go any further, I should mention that deactivating alliinase and preventing the production of allicin reduces a large amount of the health benefits of garlic , such as the ones I mentioned earlier. But if the sharpness of garlic prevents you from eating it most of the time anyway, this is probably a minor concern.
If you've ever enjoyed a whole roasted garlic head with toast, then you're already familiar with how much mellower the flavor is when allicin isn't produced. Not everyone has the kind of time to wait roasting, however, no matter how tasty the end results are. I know this is a bit of an old question but I came along it on my own search so thought I'd share my solution.
I figured the problem with the excess garlic is that it's raw so I sprinkled some parmesan on top of my pesto and baked it in the oven for mins. Stirred through the now melted parmesen with the semi-cooked garlic and it tastes so much better. Still a little garlic-y for my liking but hey, we can't all be perfect. Oh, I was making my pesto in a glass mixing bowl so just chucked the whole thing in the oven but make sure whatever you have it in is oven safe before whacking it in.
I had this exact same problem when I first made homemade mojo It would snap your head back when it was fresh! I had made it a day early for a party the next day and by the time the party came along, it was perfect! Pasteurization or freezing should cut the spiciness of garlic somewhat, since they reduce the flavor of whole cloves.
Pesto generally freezes well, so give that a shot first. Heating the pesto briefly to a high temperature may affect the flavor, but will reduce garlic's role. The shorter the period at heat is, the less it'll affect non-garlic flavors.
If you didn't pre-roast your garlic and need to fix it after the fact Throw your pesto in a saute pan with a little olive oil and cook it very lightly; that will help mellow the flavor.
Also, are you using lemon juice in your garlic? I find that helps temper it while adding some much needed acid. Finally, make sure you are cutting out the "sprout" piece from the center of each garlic clove as that usually has the strongest, most unpleasant flavor.
If you are willing to end up with something that is 'not pesto' but rather ' pesto cheese spread ' you can mix your pesto with cream cheese, butter, sour cream etc.. The dairy product will help take the edge of the pesto and will give a delicious dish, just not the one you were planning. Cutting fewer walls instead of smashing which tears many of them results in less spiciness especially when cut with an extremely sharp blade.
So if you're goint to use the garlic raw, chop or slice it rather than smashing if you don't want that extra pepperiness. To get the skin off easily, a little bit of smashing with a knife blade won't affect things too much. Cooking garlic makes it almost "sweet" though and removes that "hot" spicy taste, which is very different. Had the same problem and used a little dry mustard. Seems to blens the garlic not the rest of the sauce.
My hunch is that the answer is quite simple: mix your pasta into your pesto immediately after draining it, before it has time to cool. This will cook the garlic just enough to take the zing out. Adding a bit of hot pasta water will help as well, as is often recommended in pesto recipes to thin the sauce out. In Uganda some people don't like garlic at all but we all know the importance of garlic and some foods are just tasteless without garlic. So as a training chef I put a small pinch but for the times when I put a little too much of it, I use lime, oranges or lemon.
To make it less "garliky" you can add more pine nuts finely chopped , this doesn't change it's flavor and makes it more crunchy. If you are out of them, add more freshly grated parmesan cheese again, do not process. Real italian pesto is not processed. All ingredients are hand chopped use a very sharp blade for basil so it won't turn black! The idea is to distinguish the different textures of all the ingredients it's not supposed to be a paste like we usually see it!
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