Uses for a bowl full of sprouty garlic?

Nargleblast

Garlic sauce - ideal for serving with steaks, barbecued meats, roasts, but absolutely lethal - nobody will want to come near you the day after you have eaten it!

Garlic bulbs - at least 3 or 4 to make a small batch, more if you have them. Seperate into cloves and shove through a crusher into a bowl. Add a bit of coarse sea salt. Mush with a fork (or do with a pestle and mortar). Start adding a few drops of oil - sunflower, cheap olive, whatever you have, mixing the oil into the garlic and gradually increasing the oil from drops to a small splash at a time. Just like making mayonnaise, same technique. When the garlic/oil mix is a thick consistency, add a good squeeze of lemon juice then put into a screwtop jar in the fridge. The oil in it partially solidifies but will loosen again at room temperature. Lasts for ages in the fridge, and can also be used in recipes where you would normally have to prepare fresh garlic.

zippychick

what about these links

Wild garlic

Sprouty garlic

garlic bread

garlic butter

how long does fresh garlic keep for?

Hope these help and we will merge this later on

Zip :A:A

rosalie-lavender

I am just using the last of my garlic that I harvested about last August. I plait the leaves of mine together and hang them up to dry and just cut it down as needed. Mine is hanging on a hook from the ceiling in one of my living rooms indoors. I chose a variety that said it kept well and it seems to have paid off.

katkins78

Our garlic harvested in July last year has kept well after being dried and plaited and stored hanging in the kitchen- probably not the best place for it! We finished our last bulb a couple of weeks ago, although some cloves were just starting to sprout.
I think the best idea is to dry and store them, but to keep an eye on them and if they start to look iffy then chop them and freeze in ice cube trays in olive oil.
Remember that the biggest cloves are best kept for planting next year! We haven't bought garlic from the store for 2years and then I had a heart attack over the price!

Mind you we do eat a lot of it:o

TrulyMadly

I'm also onto my last bulb of garlic harvested last summer. I have kept it all year in a bowl in the kitchen and it has been perfect - hasn't sprouted at all.

hoo

thanks everyone some brilliant ideas. We use garlic in most things so don't think it will make it to next year!! but good to know it keeps if I need it to. Whilst talking about this I remembered once talking to a chef friend who said he had once made garlic sorbet - don't think i'll be going that far though!! :rotfl:

Penelope_Penguin

hoo wrote: »

I have just harvested lots of garlic and wondered after dring how long it kepps but also what to do with a garlic glut other than garlic butter to freeze. Any ideas anyone?

Add garlic to anything you use onions in