Garlic/Onion Powder

I decided to make my own garlic and onion powder, my store bought stuff had run out and I needed more. Turns out it's really easy.

Step one. Dry your garlic or onion. This is my garlic after it's been dried. Slice thin and place in a food dehydrator or if you have an air dryer and time use it. An air dryer is basically shelves covered in a fine mesh that keeps bugs out. Pretty cool, but I don't have one. I used my electric dehydrator instead. I chopped up several garlic bulbs. Enough to fill 3.5 trays of my dehydrator. Plug in and wait. The garlic or onion should snap it's so dry. Crunchy, crispy, brittle or any other such words for completely dry. The onion took less time to dry than the garlic but it was at least 6+ hours. I put it in the spare bedroom with the window cracked and the door shut. But it smelled of garlic and onion that's for sure!

Step two: Once it's dry you need to pulverize it. Blend, smash, food process, mill grinder whatever it takes. Until it becomes a fine powder. I used my food processor and after a few minutes stopped and ran it through a sieve. Keep doing that until all you have is powder. Or If you ran out of room like me (because I made too much) I kept some of the garlic as small ground up pieces. Dried garlic bits to add to soups or whatever. The garlic was staticy and clung to the side of the rotor blade in my food processor. Kinda pretty huh?

A word on homemade garlic/onion powder, it's MUCH stronger than store bought so make sure to account for that when you're cooking.