The ingredients you need for pickling garlic are garlic, vinegar and sugar.

To make delicious Lahai Garlic, the key is to pick a good garlic and vinegar. First, it is best to use purple garlic. Purple garlic cloves small bubble through, garlic cloves solid, bubble out of the crispy aroma. The second is to use rice vinegar. Rice vinegar color light, soaked garlic color as the first, the taste of sour and spicy moderation, aroma and slightly sweet. Thirdly, it should be placed in a low temperature place.

The color of rice vinegar is light, the color of soaked garlic is like the first time, orange, yellow and green, the taste is sour and spicy, and the aroma is strong and slightly sweet. The old vinegar smoked vinegar soaked garlic color black, garlic cloves are not green enough, the taste is poor, especially smoked vinegar, slightly paste flavor, perhaps this is its characteristics. You can't use white vinegar, it's not made from pure grain and can't be guaranteed to be tasty.

The way to make Lahai garlic

The most authentic way to make Lahai garlic

Materials: 10 pounds of fresh garlic, 4 pounds of sugar 3 two, 10 pounds of water, salt 7 two, vinegar more than 1 two

Methods:

1, soak the garlic: choose the tender, large garlic, cut off the tail, only a little bit of the handles, put into the cool water soak for 3-7 days, according to the temperature of the cold and warm can be appropriate to reduce or increase the time of soaking water. Reduce or increase the time of soaking. Change the water once a day to soak out the tender flavor of the garlic, then fish it out and put it into a clean altar.

2, pickled garlic: put the soaked garlic into the altar, put a layer of garlic and a layer of salt, the next day, stir once a day, and then stir once a day, 3-4 days out, spread on the curtain, sunshine for a day, get the floating skin out of the tank, and then pickled in sugar water. Sugar water with 10 pounds of water plus sugar 4 pounds vinegar 1 two, boil. When the sugar water cooled to not hot, and then poured into the garlic jar. Note that the sugar water should be higher than the garlic about 2 inches, the surface of the sugar water and then sprinkled 3 two broken sugar, and then the altar mouth cover tightly sealed, placed in a cool place, curing 2-3 months, it becomes white as jade crystal bright flavor beautiful white sugar garlic.

3, seasoning: 6-7 days before maturity, you can add some cinnamon to enhance the flavor.