Wild garlic has been very trendy for several years. You can collect the leaves fresh from mid-March to mid-April, so the season is relatively short. However, the wild garlic can be easily frozen when processed into paste, so that you can use the delicious herb all year round.
Can you freeze wild garlic paste and how do you use it later?
Wild garlic paste can be easily frozen by portioning it into ice cube trays, freezer bags or glasses. After thawing, the paste can be used as a base for pesto, dips, soups, sauces or pasta such as wild garlic noodles and spaetzle.
Prepare wild garlic paste
Ingredients:
- 200 g fresh wild garlic
- 100 ml sunflower oil
- 10 g s alt
Preparation
- Wash the wild garlic thoroughly and pat dry.
- Cut off thick stems.
- Put the leaves, oil and sea s alt in a tall container.
- Crush everything with the hand blender until a creamy mass is formed.
Alternatively, you can prepare the wild garlic paste in a blender.
Frozen wild garlic paste
Put the wild garlic paste in an ice cube tray and let everything freeze in the freezer. This makes it easy to portion the frozen wild garlic.
If you usually need smaller amounts of the mixture, put it in a freezer bag and spread it flat. After freezing the wild garlic, you can break off the wild garlic in pieces and in this way dose it very sparingly.
Wild garlic paste can also be frozen directly in the jar:
- Pour paste into small containers.
- There should be enough space at the top as the mixture expands in the freezer.
- Screw on the lid.
- Put in the freezer and let it freeze.
How can you reuse the frozen wild garlic paste?
The paste is the basis for many delicious dishes. Add roasted, ground pine nuts, freshly grated Parmesan and a little olive oil to create a spicy pesto that tastes wonderful with pasta.
Mix a little wild garlic paste with cream cheese, quark and other herbs to create an aromatic dip. Serve this with baked potatoes, raw vegetables or crackers.
When finely dosed, wild garlic paste underlines the aroma of soups and sauces. You can also add the paste to bread dough or use it as a seasoning for wild garlic noodles or spaetzle.
Tip
Wild garlic has no special requirements when it comes to soil conditions and lighting conditions. The herb can therefore be cultivated in almost every garden. A barely overgrown place under a tree is ideal, where the bulbs are planted about five centimeters deep in the ground in autumn.