How to Make Homemade Fermented Honey Garlic

Fermented honey garlic has many health benefits as long as you use all-natural, raw or wild honey. You probably are reading this because you already know that (if not, you can always do a search).

Why would you want to make your own fermented honey garlic instead of just buying the highly commercial ones?

1. You know the ingredients (quality).

2. It's cheaper (you shoulder the labor, though).

All you need:

1. Garlic

2. Raw or wild honey

3. Glass jar

Let me show you what it looks like before the fermentation.

What you need to do:

1. Sort and peel garlic. I remove the small cloves because I'm using the big ones. (Next time I'd like to try the Ilocos variety because of its potency. I'm just not looking forward to peeling tiny cloves.)

I stopped peeling the rest because my fingers started to burn with the garlic heat.

2. Get your jar and fill up to 3/4. (This is my old jar with some honey from my previous ferment.)

3. Fill the remaining space with honey. Get as much air bubbles out.

Garlic will naturally float. You know it's ready when the garlic sinks. That takes from 2.5 to 3 months. It is fine to eat it even when it has not yet fully fermented.

Every so often (about 5 days), you open the lid to make it 'burp' out the air. You can also tumble it up and down (handle with care) to mix the garlic with the honey (especially submerge the garlic that stayed on top) and get as many bubbles out.

3. Label with a starting date. You can always figure out how much time passed. It's less stressful than trying to recall what you have forgotten.

4. Store in room temp. (I have a mini lab for my fermentation projects.)😊

By the end of the fermentation, garlic will darken as the honey seeped in, and honey will be thinner (watery), as the garlic secreted its juice.  They will synergize. Eating the garlic by chewing is more palatable than without the honey, or before fermenting. It will be crunchy and chewable.

I usually eat 2 cloves, with some of the juice. Recently, hubby wanted to try it but requested that it be blended. So I did, and it makes taking it much easier to ingest. No more chewing. Just take a spoonful and drink water to push it down.

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