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Relaxed Farming Food: Garlic
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| Garlic is one of those foods that you either love or hate - but one thing is certain, if someone else has eaten garlic and you haven't you will be able to smell them from quite a distance!! We often add garlic to stir fry meals, but we also add it raw, chopped very fine, to salads. The Elephant garlic is gorgeous in stews and
risottos, adding a very mild flavour to the meal. Our favourite use for garlic though is in humus! Boil 500g chick peas in a pressure cooker for ten minutes, retaining the water when you drain them.
Peel and lightly chop two bulbs of garlic. Add the juice from a lemon and a little of the cooking water, liquidise briefly until a grainy texture
and then spoon into a dish. Enjoy!!
Planting one of the garlic cloves in November
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We have grown two 'types' of garlic this year - Early Purple Wight (produced on the Isle of Wight) and Elephant garlic which is not a true garlic, but rather a variant of the leek family. We planted the cloves (there are about ten to a bulb) in early November and left them over wintering in the polytunnel beds until June when we harvested the bulbs below.
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