Prep Time  10minutes
Total Time  10mins

How to Mince Garlic

I use garlic pretty frequently, and chances are you do to.  And given how much we use garlic, it pays to get good at prepping it…breaking up the blubs, removing the skin, and mincing it.

In this cooking video, I show you my technique for mincing a garlic clove.  Most people I know use one of those hand presses, but frankly I don’t love them.  First, I think it’s slower than my technique, but in addition to that, it’s another piece of equipment you have to clean.  And they are not all that easy to clean either. 

My technique for mincing garlic uses just your chef knife and a bit of salt.  Check out the video here.

To mince garlic

  • Peel a garlic clove and place it on your cutting board
  • Use a wide bladed knife (I prefer a chef knife) to crush the clove.  Place the knife flat over the clove and with your other hand, give it a whack to crush the clove
  • Coarsely chop through the garlic clove a few times with the knife, and then sprinkle it with about a teaspoon of salt
  • Then use your knife to grind the clove and salt against cutting board.  Holding the knife in your dominant hand, use your other hand to hold the tip against the cutting board, and the knife angled at about 30 degrees, nearly flat against the cutting board
  • Use a sweeping motion to grind the clove against the board repeatedly
  • The abrasive salt will grind up the garlic and get it beautifully minced.  The longer you grind, the more the garlic with turn to a paste, and you can vary the consistency depending on the recipe

With a bit of practice you can get to a point where you can mince multiple cloves in just about a minute – saving time and effort. 

Enjoy!!

Comments (6 )

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Terence Lawson
April 15th, 2013 - 6:29pm
Hey I love your videos, when I'm preparing food of any sort I always try to keep my salt use to a minimum. This method seems quite heavy on the salt something I think would either disrupt the garlic flavour and create a dish that is quite unhealthy in comparison to otherwise. Would there be a way that you could suggest without the salt.
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Dave
April 22nd, 2013 - 3:24pm
You can do the same thing w/o salt. But frankly, salt (in reasonable amounts) never blocks/disrupts flavors, but rather enhances them. Obviously if use salt to crush the garlic you can use less/none during the cooking process
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Rebecca Muhammed
February 4th, 2016 - 10:28pm
Thank you for such a useful video,i usually take more time for such a process.But how easily you are doing it.I watched it many times so that i can follow it and do it easily.Mincing the garlic is it this easy.Is the salt usage makes the mincing garlic easier?
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