Crush your garlic, then wait ten minutes
Crushing garlic starts a reaction that makes its sulfur compounds. Heat shuts that reaction down. Give it ten minutes on the board before it hits the pan and the reaction finishes first.
What to do Crush or chop the cloves, then leave them on the board for 10 minutes before they go into a hot pan.
Garlic heated straight after crushing lost its activity entirely; a ten-minute rest kept it.
Source: Song & Milner, J Nutr 2001;131(3s):1054S-7S · PMID 11238815