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Cooking with Spring Garlic

Making the most of the fresh, spring garlic!

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Cooking with Spring Garlic
October 12, 2011
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Cooking with Spring Garlic

Yes it looks more like a spring onion, but it is actually spring garlic. Spring garlic is the garlic planted and harvested before the bulb has formed. It has a more mild flavour, which means it can be eaten raw in salads, but also makes for the most delicious garlic bread.

The whole plant can be used, from the small white bulb to the green parts at the end.

The garlic bread I made with it was irresistible…. and the pasta was too! I’m going to be making this recipe again very soon. I suggest you try spring garlic and give your garlic bread a much needed kick with chilli 🙂

Parmesan Spring Garlic Bread

80g butter, softened
1 spring garlic, finely chopped
1 red chilli, seeds removed and finely chopped
2 tablespoons finely grated parmesan cheese
1 large Turkish bread

1. Preheat oven grill to 180°C.

2. Combine butter, spring garlic and chilli in small saucepan over medium heat and cook for 3 minutes to melt the butter and lightly cook the spring garlic. Do not burn garlic.

3. Brush or drizzle over top of Turkish bread. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese. Grill for 5 minutes or until cheese melts and bread is golden brown. Enjoy hot.

 

Tomato & Chorizo Pasta with Spring Garlic

1 punnet cherry tomatoes, sliced in half
2 chorizo sausages, sliced and halved
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 medium onion, finely chopped
2 spring garlic, finely chopped
2 cups tomato passata
250ml water
400g penne pasta
baby rocket, to serve
parmesan cheese, to serve

1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Line a baking tray with baking paper. Lay tomatoes on tray and drizzle with a little olive oil. Cook for 20-25 minutes or until collapsed and lightly caramelised.

2. Meanwhile, heat a non-stick frying pan over medium heat. Add half the chorizo and cook, turning occasionally, for 3-4 minutes or until golden and crisp. Transfer to a plate lined with paper towel. Repeat with the remaining chorizo. Discard oil from chorizo.

3. In a clean saucepan, heat olive oil over medium heat. Add onion and spring garlic. Spread out in pan, so onion and garlic makes contact with hot pan base. Cover with lid and allow onion and spring garlic to cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. The heat must be medium to low enough to sizzle, but not so hot that the onion browns. The onion and spring garlic will have a wonderful sweet, mellow flavour. There must be enough oil to assist the onion to ‘stew’ slightly.

4. Add passata and water. Simmer of 20 minutes.

5. Cook pasta in a large saucepan of boiling water according to packet instruction or until al dente. Drain pasta, add chorizo, roasted cherry tomatoes and tomato sauce. Toss pasta in saucepan to coat.

6. Serve topped with rocket and shaved parmesan cheese.
Iron Chef Shellie received spring garlic samples courtesy of Australian Garlic Pty. Ltd.

Comments

9 comments on “Cooking with Spring Garlic
  1. leaf (the indolent cook)

    Love it, I was just reading about spring garlic on another blog recently. I’ll have to keep an eye out for them!

    October 12, 2011 at 9:36 pm
  2. Winston

    What thuh WHAT?! Never heard/seen spring garlic in my life! But I’d love to make that spring garlic bread now, looks deelish! I hope it’s not going to be too awkward for me next time I’m in the market and asking the vendors if they have spring GARLIC, not spring onion… Oh dear………

    October 13, 2011 at 12:52 am
  3. Michelle chin

    So can it be said that spring garlic has a milder taste compared to garlic bread?

    October 13, 2011 at 7:04 am
  4. Gourmet getaways

    Looks so delicious, I love chilli too so I will be adding that to my garlic bread in the future as well.

    October 13, 2011 at 11:07 am
  5. Nic@diningwithastud

    Chilli garlic bread? Genius!!

    October 13, 2011 at 1:53 pm
  6. Lisa @ Blithe Moments

    I have always wondered what spring garlic is! I will definitely get some next time I see it now that I know. Yay for new season veggies!

    October 13, 2011 at 2:10 pm
  7. Bianca @ The Cooking Capers

    How have I never heard about spring garlic?! I am a complete and utter garlic lover! And… I’ll eat raw garlic LOL. Well, it has to be in/on something 😛 I don’t just eat the cloves on their own! Oh boy, another chorizo recipe!? Yuuuuum! This actually looks a lot like a chorizo pasta dish I make 😀 I mix olives and spinach through mine, mmm!

    October 13, 2011 at 4:40 pm
  8. msihua

    Ooo…. what an interesting specimen… I don’t know if I’ve ever had spring garlic before, but I suspect cooking them would be similar to chives? YES?

    October 15, 2011 at 5:27 pm
  9. penny aka jeroxie

    Spring garlic…. interesting. and love that every single part can be used.

    October 16, 2011 at 3:47 pm
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