MADDIE DAY here with a garden treat for you.
I've been growing garlic in my home organic garden for decades.
When I had a small organic farm, I planted and harvested hundreds of cloves. Garlic is easy to grow, if you have rich loose soil. In New England you plant in the fall, which is unusual for other food crops. It comes up in the spring and has basically no pests or diseases. You harvest in the summer.
Here I am in my small organic farm in the mid-nineties with only a part of my garlic crop
Now for the recipe! You can make this with raw or cooked meat, or tofu. You can also vary all the other vegetables, and if you can't find scapes in your garden or at your local farmers' market or farm stand, go ahead and mince a few cloves of cured garlic instead.
Garlic Scape Stir Fry
Ingredients
1 chicken breast, cooked and shredded
1 teaspoon cornstarch
2 teaspoons water
1 teaspoon Shaoxing
wine or sherry
1 teaspoon Hoisin
sauce
1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
2-3 tablespoons sesame oil
1 teaspoon ginger finely
julienned or a teaspoon of powdered ginger
10 ounces garlic scapes, trimmed of both woody and pointy ends and cut into 2-inch pieces
1 medium
carrot, julienned
1/2 gold pepper and 1/2 green pepper, seeded and thinly sliced.
2 cups broccoli florets in bite-sized pieces
1-2 cups of sliced mushrooms
1/3 cup chicken stock, water, or sherry
1/2 teaspoon sugar
2 teaspoons soy sauce, or to taste
2 teaspoons cornstarch mixed
with 1 tablespoon water
Instructions
In a medium bowl, add the chicken, cornstarch,
water, wine or sherry, Hoisin sauce, and vegetable oil. Mix well and set aside
for 20 minutes.
Mix 1/3 cup stock, water, or wine with sugar and soy sauce and set aside.
Place a wok over medium high heat. Add 1 tablespoon oil to the wok. Add the carrots, peppers, and garlic scapes.
Continue to stir-fry for another 1-3 minutes, until broccoli is bright green. Remove vegetables to a plate.
Add more oil and saute mushrooms until tender.
Add chicken mixture. Rinse bowl with water/stock/sherry mix and add. Add vegetables back in. Stir all together, cover, and cook for a minute. Remove the cover and stir some more.
Add the cornstarch slurry, being sure to pour it directly into the standing liquid, and stir-fry for another minute. Reduce heat to low and adjust seasonings to taste.
Serve hot over rice.
Readers: What's your favorite stir fry? Have you made garlic scapes another way? I have an ARC of Murder in a Cape Cottage dying to get out into the hands of a reader who promises to review it!
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Love stir fry, looks yummy!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite stir-fry uses hoisin sauce, soy sauce, tofu, green beans, green onions, garlic, red bell papper and water chestnuts. I just "discovered" hoisin sauce & it's delicious on just about everything! Love your Cozy Capers Book Club series. I just finished Murder on Cape Cod. lnchudej@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteThank you for the Garlic Scape Stir Fry recipe! I swear I can smell it as I read the recipe. I will be trying this for sure.
ReplyDeleteWe love a beef and broccoli stir fry with lots of onions, garlic and water chestnuts.
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Looks yummy, Edith! I make all kinds of Asian stir-fry dishes but never thought of using garlic scapes. It's also garlic scape season here in Ottawa. I usually make a garlic scape pesto.
ReplyDeleteI'm not familiar with garlic scapes. The dish looks great. Growing up in an asian household, we stir fried most vegetables with or without a protein of choice. Broccoli, bok choy, green beans, cauliflower, zucchini.
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Your recipe looks great! I make a lot of different stir fry dishes using broccoli, green beans, zucchini, garlic, nuts, peppers. I haven't used garlic scapes yet!
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I have scapes in the fridge right now and I add them to whatever stir fry I make. This week’s was chicken with snow peas. sgiden at verizon(.)net
ReplyDeleteI've never had garlic scapes. How does their taste compare to regular garlic? And what is "cured garlic"?
ReplyDeleteThis sounds very tasty.
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Scapes are a mild garlic flavor. By cured garlic I just meant garlic that is ready to be stored and used. After harvest it needs to dry out - cure - in a dark dry place for a few eeks.
DeleteI don't make stir fry and I've never heard of scapes but those pictures look really yummy. Congratulations on the new book. ckmbeg (at) gmail (dot) com
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DeleteI love to do a stir fry. They are a staple in my kitchen. Will have to see if I can find scapes. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI really like making stir fry and it's so easy. Your recipe looks delicious and I'm sure the garlic right from the garden really tastes good in the stir fry.
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I love stir fry, especially using beef and chicken. I usually have garlic, ginger and soy sauce in mine along with my favorite veggies. So healthy and delicious. cherierj(at)yahoo(dot)com
ReplyDeleteThis stir fry looks so good! Great ingredients! lindaherold999(at)gmail(dot)com
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