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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: gavinjconway on June 06, 2012, 18:05:00

Title: Garlic seed heads / scapes are delicious to eat
Post by: gavinjconway on June 06, 2012, 18:05:00
I de-scaped some of my garlic plants yesterday that have put up a flower stalks and cooked them last night for 8 minutes and added to white sauce... They were delicious!!
Title: Re: Garlic seed heads / scapes are delicious to eat
Post by: Paulh on June 06, 2012, 23:14:13
Also good in stir fries / prawn curry - enjoy!
Title: Re: Garlic seed heads / scapes are delicious to eat
Post by: Jeannine on June 06, 2012, 23:27:38
So are the ones off shallotts.

XX Jeannine
Title: Re: Garlic seed heads / scapes are delicious to eat
Post by: chriscross1966 on June 07, 2012, 00:10:15
Absolutely... next year I plan on saving back the small inner cloves from my seed garlic (and maybe some self-saved too) and planting in spring purely to get a mixture of scapes adn single-clove green garlic... had some for the first time in a veg stroganoff and it was lovely
Title: Re: Garlic seed heads / scapes are delicious to eat
Post by: artichoke on June 09, 2012, 12:11:12
Tried chewing my elephant garlic scapes recently - what a strong fiery flavour compared to the milder cloves! I let them flower last year because they are so stunning, but this year I am cutting them off to see if cloves are even bigger.
Title: Re: Garlic seed heads / scapes are delicious to eat
Post by: gavinjconway on June 09, 2012, 12:58:31
I can imagine they could be very strong flavour..