vegetablemild-garlic · oniony · green · fresh · grassy

Green garlic

Garlic pulled before the bulb sets, stalk and all, mild enough to cook like a leek instead of a seasoning.

on its own

0.0sour

1.0sweet

1.0savoury

0.0bitter

0.0umami

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9 pairings for Green garlic.

classic

Stir-fried with fatty pork, this is the classic Hunanese pairing, twice-cooked and sliced thin.

classic

Heat against a mild green allium that carries flavour without the raw bite of a mature bulb.

common

Salt against a stalk that is savoury-leaning already but still needs seasoning.

common

Smoke and fat against a tender allium, treated closer to a leek than a garlic clove.

common

Sliced into a stir-fried egg, it behaves like a gentler spring onion.

uncommon

Fermented beans against a mild allium stalk, savoury depth from one side only.

uncommon

Warmth alongside a mild garlic note keeps a simple stir-fry from tasting one-dimensional.

rare

Stir-fried with cubes of tofu, the stalk supplies all the aromatics the curd cannot.

wild

Salt-fish against mild allium, the Italian garlic-and-anchovy move with a gentler garlic.