To ask how many cloves of garlic you'd add to a single pasta dish?

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Ok it may be a large dish, like enough for lunch also the next day but otherwise a single serving for one person for dinner.

I'd say at least 5. (Cloves of garlic)

Yeah maybe 4 or 5. I cba with peeling and chopping it though so I use Gia garlic paste, would easily use half a tube

2

If following a recipe, at least double what's stated.

Depends on how big. I used 2 big cloves today. On average I’d say yes, 4-5.

One decent sized one per serving

4 - 5

Have you noticed on cooking programs the bulbs of garlic (normally hung up near the window 😂) are massive? Certainly twice the size of the ones we tend to get from supermarket in the UK so if a recipe calls for two cloves, I presume they’re talking about one of those massive bulbs and double it

The larger the garlic is cut and the longer it’s cooked, the weaker the taste will be.

So if you mince it and add it only in the last few minutes of cooking, you need fewer cloves for a strong garlic flavour.

Only just learned this though, so previously I’d have started cooking with onions & 4-5 cloves of garlic too!

depends.
if cooking them 4 or 5
if crushing some in after cooking then 1-2 (much prefer this tbh, much fresher taste)

or even better - roast a whole bulb and squeeze in the soft roasted garlic. the whole lot.

Depends on how much garlic is in the house at the time.

I made a garlic and mushroom lasagna the other day that called for 40 cloves of garlic (the recipe roasted the bulbs rather than minced for a mild flavour) and it was gorgeous

@hugr that sounds delicious, could you share the recipe please?

Long running joke in this house (not sure where it came from) is that the only recipe that uses just one clove of garlic, is a recipe for one clove of garlic.

@hugr

I made a garlic and mushroom lasagna the other day that called for 40 cloves of garlic (the recipe roasted the bulbs rather than minced for a mild flavour) and it was gorgeous

40??? Is that a typo? Christ the vampires will be staying well away from your house!

@Svara

One decent sized one per serving

Me too.

I try to pick the most generously sized bulbs when buying.

3-4 ~cloves~ bulbs

At least 2-3 times what's in the recipe.

This thread is making me realise that I have been doing garlic wrong

I've been crushing two cloves and adding them in just after the onions in most dishes

It would depend on the pasta dish!

5? Bloody hell I've got heartburn just thinking about that much garlic 🤣

Where it says clove, I generally assume bulb.

(Especially since all the supermarkets only have TINY bulbs right now)!

Is better to put the garlic in after cooking at the end? Wouldn't it still be raw?

1! Too much garlic doesn't agree with me...

Most recipes say 1-2 but I actually add 2-3.

I like garlic but 5 is a lot.

Does it not depend on the recipe and the strength of the garlic

@Luckingfovely

Where it says clove, I generally assume bulb.

(Especially since all the supermarkets only have TINY bulbs right now)!

My sister from another mister

Also, slow roasted garlic in the oven, cooked in foil with a little onion and salt, then spooned out and spread on crusty bread with some nice butter is the best food imaginable!