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Learn all about the wild plant, garlic mustard, that is popping up all over in these early spring days. The garlic mustard plant is a wild food, it is very nutritious and can be used in a variety of ways. Personally, we love to make a garlic mustard pesto! Garlic mustard benefits include improving circulation, & helping with upper respiratory issues, such as congestion. Garlic Mustard also has a good amount of Vitamin A, C, E, and some B. Read the blog now to learn more about garlic mustard.
Garlic Mustard, Jack-by-the-Hedge, Hedge Mustard, all names for this plant that seems to grow almost anywhere. Garlic mustard has a flavor that, in the young leaves, taste like a green gentle garlic. As the leaves get older they also take on a bitter edge that can be good in some dishes but that bitterness fades when put with most oils or even butter. This is probably why it is so popular in olive oil heavy pesto. It starts off as a rosette of sorts with several leaves coming off each root…
This garlic mustard pesto is a delicious way to use up a nutritious, though invasive, wild spring food.
(Alliaria petiolata) Garlic mustard is a 1 to 4 foot plant with serrated leaves and clusters of tiny, white, 4-petaled flowers that bloom in early spring. It smells like garlic when crushed.
Michigan's most invasive plant species, with pictures. Terrestrial, aquatic, water & wetland invasive plant identification and control.
Garlic Mustard in Wisconsin
Words cannot say how much I love Garlic Mustard. Not just because of its velvety emerald coloured leaves, not because it is one the most versatile nutritious greens you can possibly eat, not because it is one of oldest food plants and possibly the oldest “spice”, and not because its green garlicky aroma fills me…
Garlic Mustard Pesto is a classic recipe for foragers. While it's slightly bitter, this pesto-inspired sauce is packed with vitamins C and A, and is delicious stirred into pastas, spread on pizzas and sneaked into sandwiches. You can even freeze it for later!
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