Steenbergs Organic Garlic Powder

Organic Garlic Powder is core for a spice cupboard. It is a key ingredient to every cuisine, from Italian to French to Indian and Chinese. Organic garlic is pungent and gives a balanced savoury warmth that brings together the flavours in a dish.

Organic Garlic is one of our most popular spices. Steenbergs sources the highest quality organic garlic powder it can find and packs it down in short batch runs in North Yorkshire. Organic garlic powder is a great to take away the hassle of peeling, squashing and chopping garlic bulbs for what feels like forever.

Axel’s Tasting Notes: Garlic is Pungent: sharp, acrid with an aroma that is sinus-penetrating. When heated, its pungency and strong odour reduce and its becomes more subtle and less dominant.

Food Pairing: Use garlic in almost any savoury dish. Use it to flavour white sauces, add barbecue rubs, pâtés or terrines, homemade guacamole or hummus. Garlic works well with onions, as well as with ginger, pepper, chillis and many other spices.

More about Garlic

Garlic, Allium sativum, comes from the same family as chives, leeks and onions. It grows best in rich, moist soil in a sunny position, but overall it is pretty hardy.

Garlic is a perennial with long. flat, solid, spear-shaped gray-green leaves. Its leaves grow to 30 cm and 25mm wide, with a flower that’s jolly mauve-tinted white petals.

The spice part is the bulb, which grows under the ground. Garlic bulbs are white or pink skinned and consist of a collection of triangular segments, or cloves, in a paper-like outer skin.

To harvest, the plants are pulled up when the tops dry out, then hung out to dry in the shade.

The bulb does not give out a smell when in the husk. When crushed or peeled, the enzymes in the bulb rapidly produce allicin which breaks down into allyl disulphide, which produces the characteristic garlicky, sulphurous and lingering flavours.