Kenji Black Garlic

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Whole bulb black garlic now available on amazon!!!!
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Black Garlic Whole Bulbs - Fermented/Aged Naturally (5 Bulbs (225g)) Black Garlic Whole Bulbs - Fermented/Aged Naturally (5 Bulbs (225g))

Healthy and delicious use of black Kenji Black Garlic. This beautiful tofu dish, spicy from the peppers and a sweetness from the black garlic. Kenji Black Garlic will be available soon in individual size servings at amazon as well as available in select stores. Stay tuned for Chef Shawn from Harnett's Table showing us some recipes using Kenji Black Garlic.

Homemade butter AND black garlic? Count me in! I love when I receive photos/recipes from customers. 🥰
(It does however make me want to invite myself over for a bite to eat.)

HAPPY NEW YEARS! 🎉

We are excited to announce that we are putting together a Black Garlic Bundle pack for all of our garlic lovers!

In this new year, we also will be adding a few new items to our inventory. Stay tuned! 🧄

** Wild Mushroom and Black Garlic Soup RECIPE **
(A delicious mushroom soup recipe from Merchant restaurant in Madison, WI)

PREP: 10 min COOK: 25 min TOTAL: 35 min
Yields 8-10 servings

INGREDIENTS:
6 tablespoons butter
1 cup onion, diced
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
½ cup all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon fresh thyme leaves removed from stems
1 large bay leaf
2 quarts vegetable broth
2 pounds mushrooms coarsely chopped or sliced*
2 tablespoons black garlic, sliced
1 cup heavy cream
¼ cup loosely packed fresh basil
¼ cup loosely packed fresh flat-leaf parsley
*half Cremini and half other edible mushrooms, i.e. Oyster/Sh*take; white button mushrooms are not recommended.

INSTRUCTIONS:
In a large Dutch oven or heavy bottomed pot, melt butter over medium heat and add onions.
Sauté onions for a full 10 minutes, stirring often and they will begin to brown.
Add salt, pepper, flour, thyme and bay leaf and stir to create a roux.
Cook the roux for 4 minutes, stirring often.
Add the vegetable broth 1/3 at a time, whisking as you add.
Once the mixture is creamy and all of the roux mixed into the broth, add the mushrooms and garlic.
Bring to a slight boil, reduce to a medium simmer and cook for 15 minutes, stirring often to prevent stick.
Remove and discard the bay leaf.
Add cream and heat enough to get the soup back to temperature and then add the fresh basil and parsley.
Using a blender, purée completely until creamy.
Adjust salt and pepper to taste as needed and serve.

Black Garlic is now becoming popular as a brain friendly super-food. Black garlic shows brain-specific benefits such as protecting neurons from neurotoxicity, which may help prevent cognitive decline and improve learning and memory retention.

Consumption of antioxidant-rich black garlic reduces the amount of oxidative stress that happens in the body, which helps prevent inflammation in the brain and damage to cells, leading to marked improvement in brain connections and blood circulation.

Did you know?…

Allicin, the primary medicinal compound that is activated when regular raw garlic is chewed raw, sliced or crushed, is not preserved if you immediately throw it in the frying pan and start cooking it. You basically destroy all the antimicrobial, antiviral and anti-inflammatory health benefits. BUT you can preserve the allicin, by letting the garlic sit for 10 minutes after you mince, chop or crush it. During this time, the maximum allicin is created and stays intact during cooking.

However, with black garlic, it is technically aged by cooking regular garlic bulbs at a consistent low temperature of anywhere between 125 and 170 degrees Fahrenheit. Although black garlic contains less allicin, the cooking process causes black garlic to contain substantially more antioxidants than raw garlic.

We are super happy to announce that our Kenji black garlic can now be found in the newly opened Japanese ABURI Market located in the Ambleside area of West Vancouver.

ABURI Restaurants Canada, trailblazers in modern Japanese cuisine, have opened up a premier destination for shoppers looking to enjoy fresh, authentic, Japanese meals and snack options. Here you can find finish-at-home meal kits, ready-to-eat bento and bowls, savoury Shojin appetizers, Iwate A5 wagyu, delectable Japanese desserts, exclusive cooking sauces, imported snacks, and Japanese lifestyle products, from tableware to apparel.

🍞 Toast with Avocado, Black Garlic & Soft Boiled Egg 🥑

It’s super simple to make, tasty, yet healthy! All you have to do is spread (must be very ripe) avocado on a piece of toast with fresh squeezed lime juice on top, add a soft boiled egg and some chopped up black garlic, and add some salt & pepper on top.

Look for us at the this Sunday, May 29th. Last Sunday was the first farmer’s market we attended, and we were pleased with the response from shoppers who decided to check out our booth:)

We hope that our presence at these markets will help familiarize the health conscious community in the area about black garlic and its health benefits.

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Have any of you visited the newly opened Parisian Japanese-style - Vancouver, located in the Gastown district of downtown Vancouver? We are happy to be their supplier for black garlic!

An all-day café & wine bar serving specialty coffee, plus sweet & savory fare, Café Kitsuné serves up several hot lunch plates in addition to regular sandwich and pastry offerings. Our black garlic is the hero ingredient in Chef Lina’s popular Burrata and Black Garlic Sandwich! Make sure to tag us if you ever try it.

We are delighted to announce that we will have a booth set up at both the Coquitlam and Port Moody Farmer’s Markets this summer!

Here we will be showcasing and sampling our products. This is your chance to save on shipping if you live in or close to one of these locations in BC.

Coquitlam location and dates:
575 Poirier Street
Sundays (9am – 1pm) on… May 22, 29, June 12, Aug. 28, Sept.11,18

Port Moody location and dates:
Port Moody Recreation Complex
(300 Ioco Rd, Port Moody, BC)
Wednesdays (3pm – 7pm) on… June 8, 22, Aug.3, 31, Sept.14

Hope to see you there!

Today is National Garlic Day! 🎉

Even though we convert regular raw garlic into black garlic through an aging process, there’s no reason we can’t also celebrate black garlic😛 - as it is still garlic, but we transform it naturally into an even healthier, less bitter, vegetable.

Wishing everyone a safe and Happy Easter!

Since the quality of the garlic used for the aging process makes an impact on the taste of the black garlic, it's important for us to buy only good quality garlic. We only buy garlic grown at Christopher Ranch in Gilroy, CA, the garlic capital of the world.

Utilizing state of the art controlled-atmosphere cold storage, Christopher Ranch is able to offer fresh California garlic year round, ensuring that no matter what time of year, buyers are guaranteed to only have the freshest and highest quality garlic products.

This is Belgard Kitchen located in the Railtown District of Vancouver. We’re proud to say that they use our Kenji black garlic in their menu!

You’ll taste it in their Wagyu Bavette and Whey Roasted Carrots dishes. 😋

You would think that black garlic is a culinary ingredient reserved specifically for fine dining since it is pleasing to eat, considered rare and is often found only in upscale restaurants.

But this misconception would rob you of casual, everyday, culinary experiences that you could have just by adding black garlic to your food! Here are some examples:

Add it to your sandwich or spread it on a piece of toast.

Add it in an aioli for dipping purposes for french fries or yam fries.

Mix it into mayo and then spread it on your beef or veggie burger bun. This will change your life😛

Who's ready to do this?

Calamari Black and White

One of Scratch Restaurant most popular appetizers on the menu - Crispy Fried Calamari, served with black and white tzatziki, pickled onion and jalapeño.

If you love dipping your fried calamari in traditional garlicky tzatziki sauce, you should definitely try the sauce with a twist next time, adding black garlic to enhance the flavor. You will not regret it!😋

Have you ever tried black garlic in a burger before? If not, you’re missing out!

Even ask Bob, from Bob’s Burgers animated comedy series! In Bob's Burgers Season 5 Episode 5, Bob enters a Best Burger contest, only to discover that his distinguishing ingredient is missing. To help out their dad, the kids go on a mission to find the ever-so-important black garlic. In case you’re wondering, crushed black garlic is exactly what Bob puts on his burgers at the end.

Watch the episode to find out if Bob’s Best Black Garlic Burger wins him the contest!

       
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Agree or disagree?
What we eat has a huge impact on our health. It’s not just the act of eating that is necessary for our survival, especially nowadays with all the processed foods readily available and convenient for busy people.

Consuming these bad foods has caused a lot of chronic diseases and conditions, such as heart disease and diabetes, which can be managed and/or prevented by eating food that provides nutrition to our bodies.

Your diet - what you eat, day in and day out is important. Whole, nutritious foods (such as our natural black garlic;) are medicine just like any other drugs, vitamins or herbal supplements prescribed to you. You have to USE it to make it work.

Here’s a fancy way of using black garlic. Featured in image, created by :

Duck roulade three ways (breast, mousseline, confit) with beet and cherry purée, sweet potato pavé, broccolini and black garlic duck jus made using Kenji black garlic.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Although black garlic was discovered centuries ago in East Asia, it was only introduced into China in the last decade or so. As you probably know, stir fries are very popular in Chinese cuisine, and it just so happens that black garlic tastes amazing in vegetable, meat, noodle and mix stir fries.

You ought to add black garlic in your stir fry if you haven’t already!

Why you should be eating black garlic…

🧄 More nutritious than normal raw garlic!
it has a higher concentration of many nutrients, antioxidants, and other beneficial compounds, such as S-Allylcysteine (SAC) that fights infections.

🧄 No garlic breath!

🧄 Naturally sweet!

🧄 Powerful antioxidant!

🧄 Rich in amino acids!
which are the building blocks of protein in the body.

Black Garlic Recipe Share

Crispy Chicken Thighs with Creamy Black Garlic Sauce

Came across a black garlic recipe that sounds delicious, will definitely be the next recipe we cook up!

This recipe, created by , consists of searing chicken thighs until the skin is crisp and deep golden brown, then baking them in a rich, creamy sauce flavored with wine, shallots and black garlic. For the full recipe, click the following link:

https://nerdswithknives.com/crispy-chicken-thighs-with-creamy-black-garlic-sauce

Kenji Black Garlic updated their information in their About section.

If you’re familiar with black garlic and all of its health benefits, it’s worth your while to eat 1-2 cloves every single day for immune system maintenance. And because it doesn’t have the pungent bitter taste associated with regular raw garlic, it’s rather easy to eat by itself if you’re not already adding it to one of your meals.

Nothing but 5 star reviews on Etsy! ★★★★★ "I certainly appreciated the ongoing correspondence from Kenji regarding shipment. It indicates the company's attitude and attention to business, no matter how small. Quality, firmness good. -Sue

Since you likely missed our recent announcement due to the holidays and excitement of the new year, here’s a do over for ya 😜.

We are super excited to be launching our NEW Kenji Black Garlic products that are available for purchase online on Etsy. If you want to know what black garlic products we now offer, check out our Etsy shop (click link in our bio).

What are you excited about this new year?

New year, new black garlic products!

With the start of a new calendar year, now is a perfect time to announce that all of our NEW Kenji Black Garlic products are available for purchase online in our Etsy shop (click link in our bio).

We know you will love them! Thank you to everyone who have supported us thus far in our first year of business 🙏. We’re looking forward to having a great year.

Happy New Year from the team at Kenji! Cheers🥂 to a wonderful year full of joy!