Laba Garlic

Name: Laba Garlic
Total time: 2 d
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 250g Purple garlic; 300ml Rice vinegar

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4.7 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

48h

Serving

2

In the Laba Festival, in addition to the well-known Laba Congee, there is also a traditional snack from the north-Laba Garlic.
The Chinese character for Laba Suan is the same as the word "Suan". This is the day when all companies have to settle their accounts and calculate the income and expenditure of the year to see their profits and losses. This is how "Laba Suan" works. The creditor who wants to pay for Laba this day has to send a letter to the person who owes him money, and he should be prepared to pay it back. There is a folk proverb in Beijing: "Laba porridge, laba garlic, send letters to the debtor; pay the debts." Later, some people who owe money, use garlic instead of the word "calculation" to show the taboo and avoid the "calculation". "The word, in fact, what is owed to others, is to be repaid after all. "

Ingredients

250g Purple Garlic
300ml Rice Vinegar

Laba Garlic

1. Choose purple garlic with smaller slices and peel off the skin.

2. Wash the peeled garlic with water and dry it under water

3. Put the garlic into a clean glass container with no oil and water

4. Pour 300ml of 9 degree rice vinegar into the glass jar

5. The rice vinegar is covered with garlic cloves, cover and seal tightly

6. Store at a room temperature of about 5~10 degrees. If you have heating in your home, you can put it on the balcony.

7. Laba makes garlic and drinks vinegar on New Year’s Eve. The delicacy takes time to brew

Tips:
1. Use purple garlic for soaking laba garlic. The purple garlic cloves are soaked thoroughly, the garlic cloves are hard and the porcelain is firm, and the soaked garlic is more crispy and fragrant.
2. Soak laba garlic with rice vinegar. The color of rice vinegar is light, the color of the garlic after soaking is the same as before. The old vinegar smoked vinegar has darkened color after soaking the garlic, and the garlic cloves are not green enough, and the taste is poor, especially the smoked vinegar, which has a slightly pasty taste, which is its characteristic.