Patent ID: 7175870

Claim:
A process for making garlic pieces that are generally uniform in thickness, derived from cloves of raw garlic of different sizes, are crispy and crunchy, have a roasted garlic flavor, which can be stored and dispensed from a shaker and which imbue foods to which they are applied with a roasted garlic flavor, and wherein the garlic pieces have a garlic flavor that is generally uniformly less than the garlic flavor of the raw garlic from which the pieces were derived so as to make the pieces more widely palatable, comprising: slicing process-ready garlic cloves having an inner section surrounded by an outer section into garlic slices of generally uniform thickness whereby the inner and outer sections of each clove of garlic are substantially equally exposed; then reducing the strength of the garlic flavor of the garlic slices whereby the garlic slices of generally uniform thickness have their strength of garlic flavor reduced generally uniformly; and then frying the reduced flavor garlic slices until they are crispy and crunchy garlic pieces that have a generally uniform roasted garlic flavor which can be stored and dispensed from a shaker and which imbue foods to which they are applied with garlic flavor.