Do you remove the green shoot from garlic?

[Anonymous]

Yes! And if you let the green part grow, you can eat those too, like green onions. Its actually how a garlic grows. I don't waste food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes! And if you let the green part grow, you can eat those too, like green onions. Its actually how a garlic grows. I don't waste food.

+1. And what’s with the recipes that tell you to only use the whit part of the scallion? I have never understood that when the green part is so tasty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once the garlic is growing shoots it is no longer dormant, and it starts to essentially eat itself. It changes the flavor (less intense). So generally try to use your garlic before it grows shoots. But there is nothing wrong with eating the shoots - they taste good and garlicky. Treat them like a green, though, not a bulb. Throw them into stir fry at the last minute, use them as garnish in a salad, etc.

Where I live, garlic just seems to have shoots (not visible when you buy them, but there when you cut into the clove) over winter.

[Anonymous]

grandma taught me Never to eat those, so I'm afraid to stop cutting them out. ;p