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    Home » Cooking Essentials » How to peel Garlic and Pearl Onions in Microwave

    How to peel Garlic and Pearl Onions in Microwave

    Published: Apr 30, 2012 · Modified: Nov 5, 2020 by Srivalli · 7 Comments

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    Learn how to peel the garlic, and pearl onions in a Microwave. It hardly takes about 20 to 30 secs of time.

    Pearl Onions, small onions, or Shallots are used widely in Tamil Nadu cuisine. Peeling the skin is a tough task. To overcome, you can simply warm it up in the microwave for a quick job.

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    Peeling Shallots and Garlic in Microwave

    Simple and useful tips to peel garlic and small onions (shallots):

    Peeling a large quantity of garlic for grinding the paste is painful. For times like this microwave comes in handy. Same with Pearl Onions or Shallots, where it is a tedious task to peel the outer skin.

    Finally cooking various dishes for a Thali requires more garlic and shallots in our cuisine. At times like this, microwave garlic peeling comes in handy.

    There is really not much, just microwave each for 20 or 30 secs, you will hear the garlic outer skin bursting out.

    Allow it to stand for few seconds, you will notice the skin coming out very well.

    Peeling Garlic in Microwave

    Peeling Shallots in Microwave

    The pearl onions almost come out as cooked. Reduce the timing if you want it firm.

    If you are interested in knowing about other basic things in Indian Cooking read below:

    Indian Basics for Cooking

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    How to peel Garlic and Pearl Onions in Microwave

    Learn how to peel garlic and Shallots in Microwave, which hardly takes about 20 to 30 secs of time. Pearl Onions or Shallots are used widely and peeling the skin is a tough task. So warming up in microwave makes it an easy job.
    Prep Time5 minutes mins
    Active Time30 minutes mins
    Total Time35 minutes mins
    Cuisine: My Kitchen
    Keyword: Basic tips for Cooking
    By Cook Method: Microwave
    Dish Type: Basics for Cooking
    Yield: 1 cup
    Author: Srivalli

    Materials

    • 1 cup Garlic
    • 1 cup Small Onions

    Instructions

    How to peel Garlic and Pearl Onions in Microwave

    • Simply put the garlic and small onions and microwave for 20 to 30 secs.
    • The outer skin peels out easily and you can peel and wash it before using it in your cooking.
    • Microwave cooking is always checking and cooking, so you will have to start with 10 sec when you are handling lesser quantity of ingredients.

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    Comments

    1. Shobha says

      April 30, 2012 at 5:04 pm

      Thanks for sharing the tips..

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    2. Zari(Nilam) says

      April 30, 2012 at 6:18 pm

      Really useful tips...thanx for sharing.

      Reply
    3. Aarthi says

      May 01, 2012 at 3:37 am

      nice tip you have given..I use a different method of peeling pearl onions..I soak them in water then peel it off, the peel comes right away..I like your way of doing it

      Reply
    4. Priya says

      May 01, 2012 at 2:07 pm

      Definitely a useful post.

      Reply
    5. radha says

      May 01, 2012 at 5:00 pm

      I have to see if the onion peeling works. We love these baby onions but I hate the peeling part. Great tip.

      Reply
    6. Shilpa says

      May 02, 2012 at 11:50 am

      Time Saving tip... usually on Sunday non-veg preparations.. 🙂 Good tip, surely will try this soon.

      Reply
    7. Jagruti says

      May 02, 2012 at 11:24 pm

      I completely understand the feeling of being torn between thoughts of writing a blog post and being extremely busy..been there too.

      Well this is a great post that would save time esp when making ginger garlic paste in a larger batch.

      Reply

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