Wild garlic butter
Une journée en balade à la découverte des plantes sauvage nous a amené, avec Monsieur, sur la piste de l’ail des ours. Jusqu’alors je n’avais jamais recherché cette plante mais là, nous avons découvert un sous bois juste parfait ! Et je crois que je suis devenue accro à cette plante si délicieuse… Il faut bien-sûr bien la connaitre avant de la ramasser pour ne pas la confondre avec le muguet mais dès que vous l’aurez identifié, vous allez vous régaler !
Voici donc un beurre réalisé exclusivement avec des boutons floraux et c’est juste une tuerie… Parfait juste simplement sur une tranche de bon pain grillé, des pommes de terre en robe des champs ou des moules gratinée (tested and approved !) mais à vous d’imaginer bien plus…
D’autres recettes à venir !
Wild garlic butter
Ingredients
- 125 g de bon beurre demi-sel
- 2 grosses poignées de boutons floraux d’ail des ours
Description
Sortez le beurre à l’avance du frigo afin qu’il ramollisse.
Lavez les boutons floraux puis séchez-les sur un torchon. Mixez les finement.
Ajoutez le beurre pommade et travaillez le tout à la fourchette pour bien intégrer l’ail des ours.
Roulez dans un papier film et laissez prendre au frais.
Enjoy !
Emilie
mon ampersand
17.5.13MIAM ce beurre…I never think to look for this garlic when I go into nature and yet, it seems to be very good !!!
Mathilde
17.5.13I attended a cooking class last Monday, and the chef made us taste his wild garlic butter, and I loved it, it was good … and we made a little Thai wild garlic broth : excellent !
Emilie
17.5.13Oh great idea of Thai broth !!!
Carol // Sunrise Over Sea
17.5.13In addition to being good, this plant has a pretty name :) I’m salivating !
Marie / Madeleines and ostrich feathers
17.5.13Yum !
mllecuisine
17.5.13Oh yes ! super easy and it looks really good ! the best part must be picking up the wild garlic buds in fact ! =p
magp
17.5.13otherwise we can try to grow some … http://www.ethnoplants.com/catalog/allium-ursinum-ours-graines-p-630.html
magp
17.5.13I just read : “Slimming properties of wild garlic”… well ok in the butter not necessarily 😉 .
muriel
18.5.13After many explanations…I found some … What Flavor !
Juliette
18.5.13It must smell wonderful, but at home, too late to make it with the flower buds, the garlic is already at the end of flowering, the leaves have already lost a good part of their fragrance with the rise of the flower !
Food,Photography & France
18.5.13This is the first time I've ever heard of wild garlic.. What a discovery.
cricri67
19.5.13Your butter is magnificent ^^ I also love wild garlic but I don’t think I would dare look in the woods (I'm sure I would be wrong again)!
Emilie
19.5.13Thank you Cricri 😉
But no you have to trust yourself, go with someone who knows… It smells so much like garlic anyway !!!
cricri67
19.5.13Yes it's true!!
argon
20.5.13it actually looks delicious … I will have to look in my forest if there are any !! Do you think it also works with chives flowers? ? (probably less tasty)
Emilie
20.5.13Oh no I think it could be very, very good with chives 😉
Estelle
21.5.13It’s actually a really great plant., I tested a few pesto recipes and I found that it really enhances the taste of garlic.. However, I am surprised that you found some because I harvested some a month ago and flowering was imminent….and in principle; the leaves are harvested until flowering. Maybe with this bad weather the plants are also getting lost.….
Emilie
21.5.13We harvested them at 1200m altitude, and that was ago 2 weeks but it’s true that the plants are late !
carole
9.10.13Bonjour,I discovered your blog through the blog Les gourmandises de lydie and I must say that I love it!Coming back to wild garlic,I already saw this plant in the woods and I didn't know what it was!So if I understood correctly you harvest the bud before the flower blooms?
Emilie
9.10.13Thank you Carole ! Yes, that’s exactly it because the buds are very fragrant and very different from the leaves., on the other hand, when picking, you must be careful not to pick up more than 10% of what we have before our eyes, like that no worries for the years after !