Veggie IDs: Garlic Scapes

Garlic Scapes are the unrealized blossom of the garlic plant. What each flowering plant wants to do is bloom and create seeds. We don’t let garlic do this. Instead, we cut off the very top of the garlic, that curlicue you saw last week and will see this week at market, to force the garlic plant to put all its energy into growing its delicious bulb and not growing a flower.

Scapes are dark green and taste a bit like a cross between a green onion and garlic. They are fresh and vibrant tasting like a green onion, but with that undeniable garlic flavor that you find in the heads that are so great later in the season.

We recommend that you chop them up and use them in place of green onions, sauté them in your eggs or fried rice, roast them, grill them, or pickle and ferment them. They are so ephemeral and should definitely be indulged in right now!

–>HERE is a great link from Heartbeet Kitchen with 10 recipes to inspire you about garlic scapes!