Smoke Hamburgers with Black Garlic Aioli

Up today are smoke hamburgers topped with a black garlic aioli sauce.

If you never had smoked hamburgers with black garlic aioli sauce, then you need to check this out. It’s real easy to make.

Black garlic is actually an aged and fermented garlic and has a caramelized and slightly sweet taste with a hint of balsamic and molasses and a gummy bear like texture.

So let’s get started …

Smoke Hamburgers with Black Garlic Aioli

We’re using our smoked hamburger recipe, you can see it here. But use your favorite everyday best hamburger recipe. Today, it’s all about the black garlic aioli sauce.
Oh, and a little added wood smoke just makes everything taste better.

You might be able to find black garlic at your local grocer. However, we tried, searched, and couldn’t find it anywhere; despite the rumors it was available. So, we found some black garlic here on Amazon for just over $5.00. With nearly 400 of mostly 4- and 5-star customer reviews, we were confident of a good product.

This black garlic container came with 12 easy-to-peel single-clove bulbs for minimal preparation efforts. Each garlic bulb with husk was between 8 and 10 grams in weight.

Folks from Asian countries such as Thailand, South Korea, and Japan have made and used black garlic as a traditional food for centuries. It has recently been made available in the global market and your hometown big-box mega-marts.

Making the Black Garlic Aioli Sauce

An aioli is nothing more than an olive oil-based sauce with a lot of garlic. The olive oil has been emulsified and kind of looks like mayonnaise. In our easy-to-make version, we’re using avocado oil mayonnaise. Use what mayonnaise you might have on hand.

Black garlic has a slightly sweet and mild balsamic flavor with a gummy bear like texture. It really doesn’t have any garlic flavor at all. If you want that, you’ll need to add some as we did.

We add one small clove of finely chopped or crushed raw garlic to give it some traditional garlic flavor.

Make this a few hours in advance, allowing time for the flavors to blend.

Black Garlic Aioli Recipe Ingredients

Method

Taste Test

I must say that smoked hamburgers are the best. Including a dollop of this black garlic aioli to the smoked hamburger and toasted bun takes it over the top. Add a slice of fresh ripe tomato and sweet Vidalia onion, and layer on some fresh greens. I’m hungry for another.

Black garlic has health benefits that might be of interest. Google said there were over 30 million results when searching for the phrase black garlic health benefits.

Check out my other Kamado Joe and JoeTisserie recipes and links here on my Outdoor Eats page.