Discover the Garlic Flower

If you are looking for a new way to enhance your best dishes ,why not do it with flowers … garlic flowers! Also called scapes, they’re the early spring shoots of garlic plants, which are trimmed to encourage the bulb’s growth. They used to be tossed aside, until someone discovered their mellow, delicious flavor.

Harvested as buds on the summer solstice, the garlic flowers are chopped and put in oil to ferment with a lactic starter. Fermentation lasts two weeks and is followed by a two-month aging period to fully develop flavours.

Its flavor is unique, more delicate and more digestible than the garlic bulb. Garlic flowers add flavor without masking the taste of other foods. Better yet, they don’t give you garlic breath!

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       English, Food, Garlic Flower, Steph