Frozen Garlic Cubes: How to Use Them in Everyday Cooking

Frozen garlic cubes give you pre-portioned garlic that’s ready whenever you need it. They’re especially handy when you want crushed garlic in a soup, sauce, sauté, marinade, dressing, or other everyday dish without peeling and chopping fresh cloves first.

Because Dorot Gardens Crushed Garlic is portioned so one cube equals one garlic clove, you can follow recipes without guessing how much garlic to use.

What Are Frozen Garlic Cubes?

Frozen garlic cubes are portions of prepared garlic kept frozen until you’re ready to use them.

Instead of peeling and crushing or chopping a whole clove, you can take out the number of portions your recipe calls for. This makes the format a convenient choice for recipes that use crushed or minced garlic.

Dorot Gardens Crushed Garlic is pre-portioned and flash-frozen, so you can use what you need while keeping the rest in the freezer.

The cubes work best in recipes where garlic is mixed into the dish rather than used as a whole clove, slice, or crisp topping.

How Do You Use Them?

For hot dishes, take out the amount you need and add the portions when your recipe calls for garlic.

You can use them in:

• Soups
• Stews
• Pasta sauces
• Stir-fries
• Curries
• Sautés
• Casseroles
• Cooked vegetables
• Egg dishes

As the cube cooks, it softens, allowing the crushed garlic to blend into the dish.

For cold preparations such as dressings, dips, or marinades, let the cube soften first if needed. This makes it easier to stir the garlic evenly into the other ingredients.

How Much Garlic Is in One Dorot Cube?

One Dorot Gardens Crushed Garlic cube equals one garlic clove, so you can follow recipes that call for fresh garlic without estimating how many cubes to use.

Recipe Calls For	Use
1 garlic clove	1 Dorot garlic
2 garlic cloves	2 Dorot garlic
3 garlic cloves	3 Dorot garlic
4 garlic cloves	4 Dorot garlic

This simple portioning makes garlic easy to measure, even when it’s just one ingredient in a larger recipe.

Where the Cubes Works Best

The question isn’t just whether you can replace fresh garlic with a cube. It’s whether crushed garlic is the right form for what you’re making.

With that in mind, these cubes work especially well when the garlic will be stirred into the dish.

What You’re Making	How to Use the Garlic	Why It Works Well
Soups and stews	Add the cube during cooking	The garlic blends into the broth or sauce
Pasta sauces	Add while making or simmering the sauce	Crushed garlic mixes easily throughout the sauce
Stir-fries	Add during cooking with the other ingredients	The garlic becomes part of the finished dish
Curries	Add with the other aromatics or during cooking	Garlic blends naturally with the spices and sauce
Sautéed vegetables	Add while the vegetables cook	An easy way to spread garlic throughout the dish
Marinades	Let the cube soften if needed	Makes it easier to mix the garlic with the other ingredients
Dressings	Soften before mixing if needed	Helps the garlic blend into a cold dressing
Dips and spreads	Let the cube soften before stirring it in	Helps distribute the garlic evenly

The exact cooking order depends on the recipe. If you add garlic early to a hot pan, watch the heat just as you would when cooking with freshly crushed garlic.

When Should You Still Use Fresh Garlic?

Frozen crushed garlic is useful in many everyday recipes, but it doesn’t replace every form of fresh garlic.

Fresh cloves are usually the better choice when the shape or texture of the garlic matters, such as for:

• Whole roasted garlic cloves
• Thin garlic slices
• Garlic chips or other crisp pieces
• Garlic grated directly over a finished dish
• A visible fresh-garlic garnish
• A preparation where the clove itself is part of the final texture

A frozen crushed cube can’t recreate a whole clove or thin slice. Fresh garlic may also be the better choice when raw garlic is a main part of the dish. Although a cube can work in some cold preparations, the result may not be exactly the same as freshly cut garlic.

For that reason, it’s best to think of crushed garlic cubes as a convenient form of crushed garlic—not a replacement for every possible garlic preparation.

Frozen Garlic Cubes vs. Fresh Garlic: Which Should You Use?

Neither option has to replace the other. Instead, the better choice depends on what your recipe needs.

Choose Frozen Portions When…	Choose Fresh Garlic When…
The recipe calls for crushed garlic	You need whole cloves
Garlic will be mixed into a sauce, soup, or cooked dish	The recipe depends on slices or visible pieces
You want simple portioning	You want to choose the exact cut or texture
You need one or more cloves without extra prep	Garlic is being roasted whole
You want garlic ready in the freezer	You need crisp garlic chips or another specific texture

Fresh cloves give you control over the cut and texture. Frozen portions, meanwhile, are convenient when crushed garlic is all your recipe needs.

Easy Ways to Cook With Dorot Garlic Cubes

Once you have garlic ready in the freezer, you can use it in a range of everyday dishes. Dorot Gardens has a collection of garlic recipes featuring dishes where garlic pairs with vegetables, herbs, sauces, proteins, and other everyday ingredients.

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Good places to start include recipes where garlic becomes part of the finished dish, such as:

• Pasta and pasta sauces
• Soups
• Roasted or sautéed vegetables
• Chicken dishes
• Seafood
• Dips
• Dressings
• Grain and rice dishes

Let the recipe guide you on when to add the garlic and how many cloves to use. With Dorot Gardens Crushed Garlic, use one cube for each garlic clove called for.

Do You Need to Thaw Frozen Garlic Cubes First?

Not always.

For hot foods, Dorot Gardens garlic can generally be added when the recipe calls for garlic, and the cube will soften as the dish cooks.

However, softening the cube first can help when you’re mixing garlic into ingredients that won’t be heated right away, including:

• Salad dressings
• Marinades
• Cold dips
• Spreads

For product questions, storage information, or preparation guidance, visit our FAQs page.

Are Frozen Portions Useful for Meal Prep?

They can be handy if you regularly make meals that call for crushed garlic.

Simply keep the portions in the freezer and use only what you need for soups, sauces, curries, stews, roasted vegetables, and other meals you make regularly or in larger batches.

The recipe stays the same; the garlic is simply already prepared and portioned when you’re ready to cook.