Chopping Garlic for Ratatouille

Video Transcript

"Hi. This is Rich Buccola here in New York City and today on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to make Ratatouille. Alright. We're going to take our garlic and we're going to take it out of its rind and we're going to chop it up. Alright you have your garlic, your fresh garlic. You just give it a little squeeze and you'll see the outer shell starts to come off. We're going to use a lot of garlic today. I'll tell you this is a great garlic. If you love garlic like I do, you'll love ratatouille. Going to use seven cloves of garlic. Just going to take, just going to take the butt end of the knife, give it a little punch on our board and you'll see easily, how easily the shell comes out. You're going to have this hard point on the top. Just give that a little cut. Get that off as well and there's your garlic removed from its shell. Alright. Just be careful. Just going to slice our garlic one way. Going to try to get it chopped up real nice. So you just turn it and you chop it that way. Be careful you don't cut yourself. And then just work the back of the knife, giving it a chop. And that's all you want to do with all these cloves. I'm going to chop it up real fine. Alright you can see our garlic is chopped very, very fine. Make sure you work with it. It's going to take a couple of minutes. Just working the knife back and forth. You'll see I've got a beautiful, nicely minced garlic. We're going to just add this to our bowl and then we're going to chop our onion and we're going to saute them up in a nice pot. And that's the beginning of ratatouille here on Expert Village. Come back. We're making it. It's fun, it's fast, its easy."