Before we dive into how to cook garlic scapes, we want to address a common question: "what part of garlic scapes do you eat?" For the most pleasant texture, use the slim stem in the middle.

Ahead, we're sharing even more ideas for cooking with garlic scapes using five of our favorite recipes. Upgrade a basic basil pesto with ½ cup of chopped garlic scapes and peppery arugula in ...

Scapes have a mild garlic flavor that's a bit milder than raw garlic cloves, making them perfect for using raw in pesto ...

If you have lots of basil or even arugula growing right now, try substituting it for some of the garlic scapes. This recipe freezes well for a taste of summer at any time of year. Although this recipe ...

Here, French toast doesn’t just make the best fiscal sense, but adding a compound butter of garlic scapes and ... on the type of bread you use) Note: this recipe leaves you with about ¼ cup ...

The book was inspired in part by Prakash’s work as a magazine recipe developer ... considerations to her tortellini salad with garlic scape pesto, whose cast of supporting players includes ...

Store in airtight container in fridge. Trim garlic scapes, curl them up and place in canning jar of your choice. In saucepan heat vinegar, salt, and sugar with 1 cup of water until simmering and ...

The only thing better than a good recipe? When something’s so easy ... When I first saw garlic scapes outside of a Chinese grocery store or my mother’s garden, it was during that brief ...

Garlic scapes, those hardy green stems that grow in the spring from the tops of hardneck garlic bulbs, make a unique and wonderful pesto. In fact, garlic scape pesto gives us the best of all ...

You could also serve the pesto as an appetizer as shown in the recipe photo, with grilled, sliced sausages, goat or other soft cheese, grilled garlic scapes and sliced baguette. • salt and ...

Approximately 12 garlic scapes rinsed well, remove bud at the top, chop into 2 inch pieces. Once chopped this should equal 1 cup chopped garlic scapes. Whirl the garlic scapes in food processor ...