Wild garlic is finally back in season: This is how you make delicious wild garlic butter yourself
Created: 03/28/2022, 15:25
By: Maria Dirschauer
Wild garlic is one of the top spring herbs: The small aroma miracle can be used in many ways in cooking.
You can also conjure up a flavorful butter with it.
As soon as spring beckons with the first warm days, wild garlic fans will get their money's worth again.
Wild garlic is in season from mid-March and tastes good as a seasoning, processed into pesto or soup*.
Step one for cooking with wild garlic is:
collect the leaves
.
You should be careful not to confuse wild garlic with the similar-looking but poisonous lily of the valley or autumn crocus.
Follow these tips on how to really recognize wild garlic.
If you are lucky enough to have a lot of wild garlic leaves, you can start the delicious
recipe for wild garlic
butter.
This is guaranteed to make your loved ones happy.
Wild garlic butter, for example, tastes great on a slice of bread.
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Make wild garlic butter yourself: You need these ingredients
Servings: | for 1 glass of wild garlic butter |
Preparation time: | 15 minutes |
Difficulty level: | easy |
10 wild garlic leaves
1 shallot
250g softened butter
salt and pepper
So you only need
three ingredients
plus spices.
You will also need a hand mixer, a bowl and a blender for the preparation.
Then you can start!
Recipe: Make wild garlic butter yourself quickly and easily
First wash and shake the wild garlic dry.
Cut off the stem ends and roughly chop the leaves.
Peel and dice the shallot - with these tricks it's possible without tears.
In a bowl, cream the butter with the whisk on a hand mixer.
Fold in the chopped wild garlic leaves and mix the mixture finely with the hand blender.
Now fold in the shallot and season with salt and pepper.
Pour the finished wild garlic butter into a container (e.g. a mason jar with a screw cap) and refrigerate.
The wild garlic butter tastes great as a spread on bread and rolls or as an alternative to meat with herb butter.
Try it out at the first barbecue of the season!
Freeze wild garlic butter: Here's how
You can prepare large quantities of wild garlic butter and then freeze some of them.
To do this, put the finished herb butter in ice cube trays and freeze them.
It can be stored in the freezer for about 6 months.
When needed, just take it out and let it thaw.
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