Zesty Garlic Herb Blend product reviews

Recently New Plymouth hosted the Cake and Craft Fair. I won tickets so while the girls where at school/kindy we decided to go and investigate what was on offer. It was same old same old until we stumbled across South Sea Enterprises table. There were a lot of herbs made into sauces. I spotted the Zesty Garlic Herb Blend and thought why not. I put some onto the spoon they had out and WOW taste explossion.

Now I love my garlic. Use it in almost every dish I make and my one constant complaint is I can not taste it. It is never very strong and so end of using more than I really need to. The rest of the family are always saying 'mum thats garlicy' and I am like 'really I can't taste it' well I could taste this! It definitely had that lemony taste to it but also the garlic.

I brought a 56gram container for $7.50 and images of baked potato rushed through my head. I brought some sour cream on the way home and quickly made it. I only had in the fridge for 30minutes and thought could of been my down fall but it wasn't as mind blowing as I had hoped. Neither of the girls where huge fans and I put it down to the sour cream.

I had another mind explossion and thought about using yoghurt instead. So I brought some and made up and put in the fridge. It tasted creamier. You get a recipe guide when you buy it and it suggests 2 teaspoons of the Zesty Garlic and 3/4 cup of the sour cream (yoghurt). Now as I have stated I love my garlic so I thought why not add couple of heaped teaspoons and didn't need heaps of the sauce so only used a little under half cup of the yoghurt. I put in the fridge and left for over 24hrs. Last night after girls had gone to bed my husband and I sat down to watch GOT and I got the chips and my garlic dip out. WOW is all I can say. I tasted the garlic and I still can today. WAY to much garlic....

This is great if you are a lover of garlic. But be warned a little does go a long way. This is going to be my new favourite cooking tool. But I might go a little lighter on my teaspoons.

This was amazing, and so versatile!

I started off using this by making a dip... unfortunately, I got distracted at a critical moment and read "tablespoon" instead of "teaspoon" and ended up making a dip nearly 3 times more potent than it should have been - enough that it left a burning taste on my tongue from the sharpness of the garlic. If nothing else, I learned two very important things in that split-second:
    •  1 - Be VERY careful to read the instructions and double-check them if any distraction occurs during use.
    •  2 - They really do use REAL ingredients in their mixes. No artificial flavourings here!

To solve the problem, I split the mix into three portions and tried a couple of different things:
    •  1 - Added another 2/3rds portion of sour cream that it would make the right mix. It tasted wonderful, as good as the sample I tried at the Craft Show where I first encountered these fine folks.
    •  2 - Added a hefty portion of plain mayonnaise instead of more sour cream. This also created a delightful dip, but with the addition of some grated cheese and a can of Tuna, made for a delightful variant to the Tuna Munchie Mix (Yes, it looks wacky, but it tastes devine!)
    •  3 - I made up some regular 'tradition onion soup and reduced cream' dip, and mixed it 2:1 ratio with this portion, and that added some real wow factor! This, I think, was my favourite dip ever!

Overall, this has to be some great stuff. I haven't explored even a small smattering of the possibilities my fertile mind has dreamt up, but I want to think on them a lot more, as my supply of this fine mix is very limited, and I don't want to waste it. One other thing I did try that panned out well, mixing a few teaspoons of this through some mashed potato - delightful!