Wild Garlic ideas please

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DH picked way too much of it, thinking he'd make wild garlic carbonara for us with it all.

Well, I have already used a good chunk of it to make wild garlic pesto and we still have loads left.

We've done soup, risotto, carbonara and wild garlic pesto.

Does anyone have any tried and tested recipes they wouldn't mind sharing please? It would be a shame to let them get to the yellowing stage because we ran out of ideas to use them at its best!

Quiche hodgepodgedays.co.uk/recipe/wild-garlic-quiche/

Garlic butter with chicken and mushrooms www.abelandcole.co.uk/recipes/chicken-with-mushrooms-wild-garlic-butter

Goat’s cheese pie www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/wild-garlic-and-goats-cheese-pie/

Lamb hotpot www.olivemagazine.com/recipes/family/lamb-hotpot-with-wild-garlic/

Sausage stew searchingforspice.com/sausage-wild-garlic-stew/

Thank you for your reply.

I should have mentioned that we are a predominantly vegetarian household, but I'm pescetarian.

I will have a look at the quiche and see whether we can use vege sausages for the stew.

We make wild garlic butter and keep it in the fridge. Use instead of butter for frying veg, oiling omelette pans etc. also melt into ciabatta for a tangy garlic bread.

Use it to make your own butter and freeze.

Soup is lush. We serve it with Parmesan scones. Also makes a great frittata with courgettes and feta.

Yes was going to say blitz it into softened salted butter and then freeze in icecube trays and have garlic butter for everything.

Use it in curry like spinach - saag paneer, saag aloo etc. The garlic flavour is mild when cooked, and basically anything you might use cooked spinach in works well with wild garlic.

Garlic butter is a good one, thanks.

I wa thinking wild garlic pizza as we'd run out of spinach, so I'll probably give that a whirl this evening.

Potato and wild garlic tart
Wild garlic salt
Mac & cheese
Whole cauliflower cheese
Posh mushrooms on toast

I made some nice wild garlic and cheese scones - an Anna Jones recipe which I found online.

You can just use it pretty much anywhere you would use garlic or spinach in dishes (but be mindful that it will be stronger tasting than spinach so maybe try half the bulk).

We picked loads of wild garlic in the 1st lockdown and used a lot in baking. Cheese & wild garlic scones are yummy:

totallywilduk.co.uk/2022/05/09/wild-garlic-and-cheese-scone-recipe/

Don't worry about having a pesto mountain: freeze it in icecube portions or little pots that Gu desserts come in.

There is a Donal Skehan cheddar and wild garlic scones recipe I make every year. And have them with wild garlic and nettles soup. Lovely!

Thank you again for your replies.

Incidentally, I made some cheese and cayenne pepper scones over the weekend, and had them with cream cheese and wild garlic pesto, which tastes amazing.

Maybe I'll add the wild garlic in the scones themselves next time.

@mindutopia please would you share your soup recipe

On top of a tomatoey pasta it really elevates it! Or in an omelette:) or in salad!

Can you not just freeze into ice cubes like other herbs?

Finely shredded added to mixed leaves for a salad, or stirred into pasta immediately after draining it as a change from chives etc.

Used in spanakopita.

Finely chopped, used as a garnish for gazpacho or stirred into any tomato soup.

Used in pasta bakes, or cauliflower cheese, braised with lettuce and fresh peas, or as a layer in layered vegetables.

Yesterday I made wild garlic pizza in place of spinach.

Today, I made pearl barley risotto with wild garluc puree added at the end.

Nearly there!

Not tried freezing it. Wouldn't it just go soggy and tasteless when you thaw it?

Chop it, blanch it, dry it off and freeze it on a baking tray, then put it in a bag or tub. It works just like frozen spinach; it should keep for a good 3 months.