With garlic setting you back $4 a bulb, this spice can be found at your Indian grocer for a fraction of the price.

Garlic is widely used in Indian and international cuisines. However, due to its high demand, fake garlic mixed with harmful substances like cement is being sold, posing serious health risks.

there's another cost-effective alternative that can bring you a punch of garlic that is common in Indian cooking - asafoetida, which is also called hing. Hing is a gum resin from the fennel plant ...