Baby Globe Artichoke recipe anyone ?

morganlefay

I really love those baby globe artichokes in oil you buy in jars or loose in the deli, but they are now too expensive and I don't buy them any more. I've now found a PYO near me where they sell tiny artichokes so I could make my own, but can't find a recipe for doing them - has anyone got one ? Most artichoke recipes are for big ones, with tough leaves and whiskery insides, but these little ones can be eaten whole, I'm sure, if I only knew how to prepare them !

hannahO_2

Yes! Yes!
It's by Clare Smyth who is a head chef at one of Gordom Ramsay's restaurants. She made this on Saturday Kitchen and it is absolutely light and divine. I'm hooked on this. It's not really a soup but vegetables with slight juice to soak up your homemade crusty bread

Artichokes a la Barigoule (Serves 4)

Preparation time less than 30 mins
Cooking time 10 to 30 mins

Ingredients
25ml/1fl oz olive oil
4 pearl onions/shallots
15g/½oz smoked bacon lardons
1 carrot, peeled and sliced
3 baby artichokes, outer leaves removed, trimmed and halved(immediately soak in acidulated water to stop it from discolouring e.g. use lemon or Vit C poweder)
4 baby turnips or normal turnips but chopped to individual garlic pearl size
4 button mushrooms
4 long baby radishes (elongated french ones are great taste, they are currently selling at Waitrose)
1 garlic clove, peeled, thinly sliced
50ml/2fl oz dry white wine
110ml/4fl oz chicken stock
1 tbsp chopped fresh flatleaf parsley
1 loaf crusty bread, sliced
salt and freshly ground black pepper

Method
1. Heat a small pan over a medium heat and add the olive oil. Gently fry the pearl onions and bacon for 2-3 minutes, or until lightly coloured. Just sweat them with lid on.
2. Add the carrots, artichokes, turnips, mushrooms and radishes and gently fry for 1-2 minutes, then add the garlic. Increase the heat, add the wine and cook for 1-2 minutes, or until the volume of the liquid has reduced by half. Add the stock and reduce the heat to a simmer.
3. Cover the pan with a lid and cook for 3-4 minutes, or until the vegetables are tender. Remove the lid, increase the heat to high and cook for a further 3-4 minutes, or until the liquid has reduced to a thick glaze.
4. Stir in the chopped parsley and season, to taste, with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
5. To serve, spoon the vegetables into a bowl and serve with crusty bread on the side.

horsechestnut

Lidl sell artichokes in oil, in jars for around £1, (285g sized jar, including the oil.) And the oil is lovely to use in your cooking after you have eaten the artichokes!
These are Italian antipasto. They also have other jars in the same range.
Lidl also have a good selection of olives in jars.