Garlic - One Of The Most Important Ingredients In The Kitchen. Stock Photo

Strong-smelling pungent-tasting bulb, used as a flavoring in cooking and in herbal medicine.The plant, closely related to the onion, that produces this bulb.Garlic Allium sativum is a species in the onion genus, Allium. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, chive, Welsh onion and Chinese onion.It is native to Central Asia and northeastern Iran and has long been a common seasoning worldwide, with a history of several thousand years of human consumption and use.