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Maui Onions
Two characteristics set the Maui onion apart from other yellow onions: the high sugar and high moisture content of its flesh.
Fingerling Russian Banana Potatoes
Although very petit in size, fingerlings are fully mature when harvested, thus they should not to be confused with new potatoes, potatoes that are harvested when immature.
Fresh Green Garlic
This product is organically grown.
Specialty Produce is certified to handle organics.
Our California registration number is: 37-1293 Organically grown.
Inventory, 8 lbs : 0
This item was last sold on : 05/21/12
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Seasons/Availability
Grown in California, look for Green Garlic late January to April. These delicious fresh garlic wonders just may appear in the marketplace again in October through the fall months. Available during December and January from Baja Mexico.
Current Facts
Anyone who cooks, or simply enjoys food, probably cannot imagine a world without garlic.
Description/Taste
Regarded as a spring delicacy, fresh green garlic are very young garlic before they begin to form bulbils or cloves. About the length of an average scallion or green onion, fresh green garlic is the mild stage of garlic when it first produces very tender green stalks. Described by adoring chefs as a true taste and a sure sign of spring, fresh green garlic is definitely a culinary treat of this renewed season.
Nutritional Value
Beneficial garlic is claimed to be an all-around wonder drug with its numerous anticancer compounds. Strengthening the immune system, it helps to ward off colds, among other ailments. Garlic works as an antibiotic against some types of bacteria, viruses and intestinal parasites. It lowers blood pressure and blood cholesterol. Its other salutary benefits include working as a diuretic, an anti-inflammatory agent, helps diarrhea problems, and acts as a expectorant and decongestant.
Applications
The entire garlic plant is edible when it is still young. As it is harvested in Spring, clearly springtime recipes make the best use of the plant. Create fresh lively pestos with blanched green garlic and use as a sauce or paste and keep it in your refrigerator for up to a week. It will pair well with everything from pan-roasted halibut to poached eggs.
Ethnic/Cultural Info
More myths and lore have been written about garlic than almost any other food. It has been the antidote for unrequited love, baldness and vampires. Egyptians ranked garlic next to the gods when swearing an oath, according to Pliny. Thought to give them strength, Roman laborers and soldiers consumed a lot of raw garlic. If nothing else, this belief certainly made their breath strong.
Geography/History
Sometimes called spring baby garlic, green garlic is the immature small bulbil or clove that is produced by many varieties of hard neck and soft neck garlic strains. Hard neck varieties, Allium sativum var. ophioscorodon, produce a flower stalk botanically called a "scape". Soft neck varieties, Allium sativum var. sativum, do not produce a stalk and are sometimes referred to as artichoke varieties. Hard neck garlics produce larger but fewer cloves per bulb while soft necks usually develop nearly twice as many cloves per bulb. In California, mainly soft necks are grown for commercial production.
Featured Restaurants
Restaurants currently purchasing this product as an ingredient for their menu.
Recipe Ideas
Recipes that include Fresh Green Garlic. One
is easiest, three is harder.
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Seasons/Availability
Grown in California, look for Green Garlic late January to April. These delicious fresh garlic wonders just may appear in the marketplace again in October through the fall months. Available during December and January from Baja Mexico.
Current Facts
Anyone who cooks, or simply enjoys food, probably cannot imagine a world without garlic.
Description/Taste
Regarded as a spring delicacy, fresh green garlic are very young garlic before they begin to form bulbils or cloves. About the length of an average scallion or green onion, fresh green garlic is the mild stage of garlic when it first produces very tender green stalks. Described by adoring chefs as a true taste and a sure sign of spring, fresh green garlic is definitely a culinary treat of this renewed season.
Nutritional Value
Beneficial garlic is claimed to be an all-around wonder drug with its numerous anticancer compounds. Strengthening the immune system, it helps to ward off colds, among other ailments. Garlic works as an antibiotic against some types of bacteria, viruses and intestinal parasites. It lowers blood pressure and blood cholesterol. Its other salutary benefits include working as a diuretic, an anti-inflammatory agent, helps diarrhea problems, and acts as a expectorant and decongestant.
Applications
The entire garlic plant is edible when it is still young. As it is harvested in Spring, clearly springtime recipes make the best use of the plant. Create fresh lively pestos with blanched green garlic and use as a sauce or paste and keep it in your refrigerator for up to a week. It will pair well with everything from pan-roasted halibut to poached eggs.
Ethnic/Cultural Info
More myths and lore have been written about garlic than almost any other food. It has been the antidote for unrequited love, baldness and vampires. Egyptians ranked garlic next to the gods when swearing an oath, according to Pliny. Thought to give them strength, Roman laborers and soldiers consumed a lot of raw garlic. If nothing else, this belief certainly made their breath strong.
Geography/History
Sometimes called spring baby garlic, green garlic is the immature small bulbil or clove that is produced by many varieties of hard neck and soft neck garlic strains. Hard neck varieties, Allium sativum var. ophioscorodon, produce a flower stalk botanically called a "scape". Soft neck varieties, Allium sativum var. sativum, do not produce a stalk and are sometimes referred to as artichoke varieties. Hard neck garlics produce larger but fewer cloves per bulb while soft necks usually develop nearly twice as many cloves per bulb. In California, mainly soft necks are grown for commercial production.
Featured Restaurants
Restaurants currently purchasing this product as an ingredient for their menu.
| Waters Catering | San Diego CA | 619-276-8803 |
| Prepkitchen Little Italy | San Diego CA | 619-247-0394 |
| Cowboy Star | San Diego CA | 619-450-5880 |
| La Valencia | San Diego CA | 858-551-3750 |
| Georges at the Cove | San Diego CA | 858-454-4244 |
| La Villa | San Diego CA | 619 255 5544 |
Recipe Ideas
Recipes that include Fresh Green Garlic. One
is easiest, three is harder.| San Diego Foodstuff |
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Dijon Green Garlic Vinaigrette |
| yaya小舍 |
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家常味道——蒜苗炒牛肉 |
| Married with Dinner |
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Jan’s Spring-Green Soup |
