Garlic (Bawang)

Garlic (Bawang) is a staple in Filipino Cuisine, almost every dish we cook has garlic on it. Normally we use garlic for our dishes and it doesn't feel right if we don't use it, the flavor it brings to our food is extraordinary, we use it to stir fry, to marinate, on salads, on pastries you name it, Garlic is really serves an important role on our cooking. It also reduce the fishy/stinky tastes on some variety of meat/fish products. 

Some of us also eat it as it is (without the skin of course), helps lower our cholesterol, also considered as an anti oxidant. Did you know that Garlic was used as an antiseptic to prevent gangrene during World War I and World War II. Some even say it fights bad spirits or even aswangs/blood suckers as we call it in the Philippines. :)

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