RECIPE Wild Garlic Risotto

Epicurean Exploits - Food and Recipes
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This Risotto is based on ramsons/wild garlic what we call here in Germany “Bärlauch”. You will find wild garlic in Germany only a short time in spring, but every year I make wild garlic-butter for the freezer, so I have wild garlic every time of the year.


Recipe: http://berlinkitchen.com/berlinkitchen/BerlinKitchen/Entries/2007/5/3_Wild_Garlic_Risotto.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Slideshow: http://berlinkitchen.com/berlinkitchen/Slideshow_Wild_Garlic_Risotto.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Note: I used no white-wine for this Risotto, as some people told me the wild garlic would be gray. Don´t worry it works also with white-wine


Guten Appetit,
Martin

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I can do this with regular garlic?

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Peter,

I would use a mix of other herbs. Normal garlic, no.

Have a look to the the first photo of the slideshow, there you see the ramson. In addition the ramson/wild garlic has a distinctive flavor you want find in normal garlic.


Cheers,
Martin

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Here an article by Wikipedia about ramsons/wild garlic…

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looks great. they’re called ramps here in the states and in the northeast their season is is early-mid spring. i often roast them and toss w/ spaghetti. quite popular w/ local restaurants during the season as well. thanks for sharing.

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I think in America we have “RAMPS” which are close cousins.

I had a friend from West Virginia who talked about “hunting for ramps” every Spring.

The leaves look quite similar to your Ramsons, and the name is similar too.

Of course I don’t know where to find them, and the season must be too late now.

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from another page

What’s in a name
The Appalachian name “ramp” comes from the British Isles, where a related plant, A.ursinum, grows wild. As one version has it, the English folk name “ramson” (son of Ram), referred to the plant’s habit of appearing during the sign of Aries; March 20 to April 20; on the zodiac calendar. Another source indicates that the folk name was “ramsen,” the plural form of an Old English word for wild garlic, “hramsa.” The similarity between A. ursinum and A. tricoccum in taste, appearance, and growth habit led early English settlers of Appalachia to call the latter by the English folk name, which later was shortened to “ramp.”