How to Mince Garlic
Follow the visual step-by-step guide to quickly and easy mince garlic to a perfect mince every time. For more help, watch the video.
Safety Note; The photographs were taken as I cut, and to be safe, I took my hand off the root, holding the knife to keep the clove steady while photographing the careful knife cuts. As you will see me do in the video, please carefully always hold the garlic gently by the root as as you make these cuts, being mindfully not to cut all the way through the root. This keeps the clove intake for easier mincing and your fingers safe.
Using the flat side of a chef’s knife, gently smash a clove of garlic, this will make it very easy to peel.
2. Gently peel garlic; the peel should slip right off
3. Keeping the root intact, holding it carefully by the root, make thing, vertical slices.
4. Still holding by the root (remember, my hand was removed to take the picture), make thin, lengthwise slices
5. Finally, again, still holding the root, which has kept the clove intact to hold the clove together for every step, make fine chops, evenly mincing the garlic
