Green Garlic Butter
Prep: 15 min
Ready: 1 hr 15 min
8
condimentsgluten-freevegetarian
Green garlic is the immature garlic plant before the bulb fully develops into separate cloves. It looks a lot like a thick scallion or spring onion, but the flavor is stronger and more garlicky. You could make this same style of butter with garlic scapes, scallions, or spring onions.
Ingredients
- ½ pound unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 bunch green garlic (about 6 stalks), trimmed, including ½ inch off the green tops, cut crosswise into very thin slices
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
Instructions
- Melt a spoonful of the butter in a skillet, add the sliced green garlic and the salt, and cook over medium-low heat. You want to soften both the texture and the intense flavor but you don't want to brown the garlic at all; this should take around 10 minutes.
- Let cool and then fold this into the rest of the butter using a wooden spoon or rubber spatula, and pile into whatever container you want to serve or save it in.
- Chill the butter for at least 1 hour to firm it up and to let the flavors marry and permeate the butter.