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Ginger garlic masala is a crushed mixture of raw ginger and garlic cloves.
Optionally, salt is added to the ginger garlic paste while crushing.
This compounded mixture is often used in
Vivek Singh's Ginger-and-garlic-paste-recipe
Atul Kochhar's Ginger-and-garlic-paste-recipe
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Ginger garlic masala is a crushed mixture of raw ginger and garlic cloves.
Optionally, salt is added to the ginger garlic paste while crushing.
This compounded mixture is often used in Indian
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curries and vegetable dishes in many parts of India
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. It is also used in Thai cuisine
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Thai cooking places emphasis on lightly prepared dishes with strong aromatic components and a spicy edge. Australian chef David Thompson, an expert on Thai ...
.
The mixture has some beneficial properties and also enhances the taste and flavour of the dish it is added to. Ginger
Ginger (''Zingiber officinale'') is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice and a folk medicine. It is a herbaceous perennial which grows annual pseudostems (false stems made of the rolled bases of ...
is especially well known for its digestive properties.
Ideally, the paste or masala should be freshly prepared using a grindstone. However, due to scarcity of time and unavailability of a grindstone, people may use a mixer-grinder appliance to prepare the paste. These days, the paste is also available as a readymade preserve in many departmental stores or groceries.
See also
*List of garlic dishes
This is a list of garlic dishes, comprising dishes and foods that use garlic as a main ingredient. Garlic is a species in the onion genus, ''Allium''. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, chive, and '' Chinese onion''. Garlic i ...
References
External links
Vivek Singh's Ginger-and-garlic-paste-recipe
Atul Kochhar's Ginger-and-garlic-paste-recipe
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Indian cuisine Thai cuisine Garlic dishes Food paste Ginger dishes