gil
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Things to do with wild garlicProbably too late to post this, but anyone got good ideas for what to do with wild garlic ?
And BTW, what if any is the best way to preserve it ?
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Green Rosie
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I made wild garlic and leek risotto adding a handful each of leaves and flower buds near the end of cooking so they just wilted.
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gil
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That sounds good - I'll have to wait for my leeks to get slightly bigger, but that would be a good combo for this time of year (both ready now)
There's loads of it this year. My own patch seems to have expanded too.
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skedone
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probly freeze well maybe it will dry well too if u have a dehydrator
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Minamoo
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You can make a really lovely wild garlic infused olive oil. It goes a beautiful green colour. Use a few chopped up leaves and put them in a bottle of olive oil. Leave it for about a week to infuse, strain the leaves out and then add a few whole leaves and flowers to make it look pretty (and so it'll keep infusing over the long term). You could also skip the first step and go straight to the second but it won't be as strongly garlicy flavoured.
You could also try making some wild garlic pesto and freezing it in ice cubes to use when needed.
It lasts a surprisingly looong time in the fridge (over two weeks!) if you rinse it when you get home, shake almost all of the water off and put them in an airtight container. The few droplets of liquid will stop them from drying out and keep them fresh.
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cab
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Any good contributions here will, with permission from the author, go into the wild garlic article I promised to have done a fortnight back 
Made wild garlic/three cornered leek/ground elder chicken kievs the other day. Gorgeous.
Often blitzed it in with potato soup, works very well.
Excellent in an omelette too.
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sally_in_wales
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Roast sheep in green garlic jam, one of our greatest triumphs. Prepare a whole sheep for spit roasting (should work fine with a smaller joint too). Get it going in the usual fashion. Meanwhile, mash equal parts of wild garlic with the edible part of the green tops with bramble jelly, once the meat seals, paint this on little and often aiming for a slow, smokey cook. Delectable, and very easy
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Quail By Mail
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I always see wild garlic on the roadsides. Do you think it'd be a too 'polluted' to consume?
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cab
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| Quail By Mail wrote: | | I always see wild garlic on the roadsides. Do you think it'd be a too 'polluted' to consume? |
Unless its a really busy road, I wouldn't worry TOO much. Wander off from the edge of the road, don't get the stuff right by the road. And don't live on roadside forage, but don't fret overly. It ain't like farms don't go right up to main roads.
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skedone
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pollution was only a concern coz if all the lead now all petrol is lead free in this country so i would not worry to much and most other chemicals are destroyed or in to low number to worry about
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Green Rosie
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| Minamoo wrote: | You can make a really lovely wild garlic infused olive oil.
You could also try making some wild garlic pesto and freezing it in ice cubes to use when needed.
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We had the wild garlic and leek risotto again last night so now I need a different use for the garlic. Both those sound great - off to find pesto recipe now .......
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Minamoo
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Wild garlic pesto is super easy. Blanch a good handful of leaves in boiling hot water for about 5 seconds (you just want to soften it and not cook it), chuck it in a food processor with a handful of pine nuts, grated parmesan cheese, some walnuts (optional) and salt and pepper. Zip up till pureed and serve with pasta. You can use the water you blanched the ramsons in to cook the pasta if you like.
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Green Rosie
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| Minamoo wrote: | | Wild garlic pesto is super easy. Blanch a good handful of leaves in boiling hot water for about 5 seconds (you just want to soften it and not cook it), chuck it in a food processor with a handful of pine nuts, grated parmesan cheese, some walnuts (optional) and salt and pepper. Zip up till pureed and serve with pasta. You can use the water you blanched the ramsons in to cook the pasta if you like. |
Thanks for that - I'll add pine nuts to my shopping list and give it a go later in the week.
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Treacodactyl
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Re: Things to do with wild garlic | gil wrote: | Probably too late to post this, but anyone got good ideas for what to do with wild garlic ?
And BTW, what if any is the best way to preserve it ? |
Not too late for our garden patch. I'll again remove most of the flower heads and I'll try adding the buds to a Thai curry this week.
Not sure I'd wish to preserve it, I like looking forward to the new shoots and flowers and when they're gone we should be starting to pull some of our onions. I might try a few ramson bulbs this year, again pulled from our garden.
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Jamanda
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I made a very good saag the other day. A hand full of red lentils, and a good big bunch of wild garlic and ground elder in a little water. Boiled until the lentils were cooked and the greens wilted.
Mean time I fried up onions and ordinary garlic with some cumin, coriander and cayenne pepper. I whizzed the veg mix, leaving some texture to it and mixed in the onion mix. It was very nice and light and tasty.
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Jamanda
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There is also a good recipe for duck egg and ramsoms omelette in the recipe section.
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sean
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And for a wild garlic sauce to go with lamb and stuff.
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