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Garlic Chives instead of Garlic--when?

writersblock (9b/10a)

5 years ago

I'm just getting ready to pull my garden for the summer rest (our summer is like winter up north--nothing much grows), and I still have a lot of garlic chives, which I grew by mistake. So I'm trying to use them up by subbing them for garlic in recipes.

I'm assuming that they still get added at the end rather than the beginning of a recipe? So if I'm making soup, where I'd add garlic to the onion I'm sautéing at the beginning, I'd just sauté the onion and then add the chives with the leafy greens at the very end. Is that right?

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pkramer60
5 years ago
I put it in salads, both green and potato or make a garlic chive butter and freeze the logs. Sorry, never have tried sautes with them.
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5 years ago
I've never subbed garlic chives for garlic -- I don't think it has the same strength of flavor. But yes, you should add it at the end IMO
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writersblock (9b/10a)
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5 years ago
Thank you, pkramer and Martha.
sleevendog (5a NY 6aNYC NL CA)
5 years ago
Yes, at the end of a dish. A fresh garnish, or into soups just before serving.

And they do freeze well. Even stuffed into a quart zip-lock straight from the garden with all the air pushed out. (I rinse first). Roll up your zip-lock...helps get the air out. Then you can open it off season and pull out a few 'strings', chop, and add to pretty much anything for garden flavor. Free herbs!

I do dehydrate and it can be done in low oven heat, (my oven starts at 140) but I have a dehydrator as well. If I get overwhelmed during Fall harvest, I just stuff a ton of herbs in separate zip-locks. Rosemary, sage, thyme, chives, etc....lay the bags on the counter stacked and place a fat book on top to flatten, seal, then freeze.

Sometimes I make herb butter logs but get busy and forget they are there. My herb frozen bags are more versatile and take up minimum freezer space being so flat.
writersblock (9b/10a) thanked sleevendog (5a NY 6aNYC NL CA)
writersblock (9b/10a)
Original Author
5 years ago
Thanks, sleevendog. Alas, I'm renting at the moment and the freezer here is on its last legs--huge defrost cycles, so I don't trust anything that's been in there more than a couple of weeks. Even stock looks freezer-burned after a week or two.

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