Few people are familiar with the immune boosting ingredients found in almost every kitchen.
The wide variety of those ingredients includes honey and garlic, which seems to be a strange combination, but it can really help in boosting your immune system.
The best way of combining the healing benefits of garlic and honey is to infuse raw honey into crushed garlic. The garlic should be crushed, as only crushed and cut, is able to allow its natural enzymes reach their maximum potency.
On the other hand, soaking garlic cloves in garlic ensures increasing its immune boosting power and making it more palatable and tastier.
Benefits of Garlic
What makes garlic so powerful and healthy is its compound called allicin. This compound is also responsible for its strong smell and taste.
The garlic is known to maintain proper blood pressure, fight fungal infections, and improve heart function. The most important thing about garlic is that it gives a immune boost and it fight off flu and colds.
Benefits of Raw Honey
Honey contains amazing nutrients packed into just one small tablespoon. Raw honey is rich in enzymes, vitamin, and minerals. The most important thing about honey is that unlike the refined sugars, its balance of nutrients doesn’t spike your blood sugars.
- Honey Infused with Roasted Garlic
Ingredients:
- 30 g of dry white wine
- 10 cloves of fresh garlic
- 250 g of locally grown honey
- 15 g of extra virgin olive oil
- Sprinkle of sea salt
- Cracked white pepper corns
- 1 sprig of fresh rosemary
Instructions:
The first step is preheating the oven to 200 degrees. Peel the garlic cloves, and stir the olive oil and the white wine using a whisk. Place the garlic on a baking paper and place it using a ceramic oven dish.
Then, pour the mixture of olive oil and white wine over the garlic. Sprinkle with sea salt and top it off with rosemary sprigs. Close the baking paper into a package and put the dish in the oven.
The garlic should be roasted for about 15-50 minutes, or until the smell permeates the kitchen and the cloves get golden color. Remove the garlic from the baking paper and smash it with a fork.
Extract the remains of white wine and olive oil juices as well. Stir the roasted garlic into the honey, and put some cracked white pepper. When done, put the resulting mixture in a jar. The infused jar is supposed to last for at least two months.
- Immune-Boosting Honey Infused Raw Garlic
Ingredients:
- 8-10 cloves of minced garlic
- ½ pint raw honey
Instructions:
This procedure is extremely easy. Put the minced garlic in the bottom of a half-pint jar, and fill the rest with honey. The jar should be placed near a south-facing window. During the next month you will be able to see garlic juice releasing into the honey. It is ready to use after a month.
