Wild garlic recipes
Discover our best wild garlic recipes to make the most of this seasonal springtime ingredient. Its leaves add a wonderfully subtle, savoury flavour to sandwiches, salads, pasta, stir-fries and soups.
- Where to get it: Look for it from around March until May each year in the UK. Later in the season it has star-shaped white flowers. You can learn how to forage for wild garlic here.
- Essential recipes: Preserve your bounty by transforming it into a bright green oil or savoury butter.
- Our favourite wild garlic recipes include wild garlic pesto, ravioli and roast chicken smothered with wild garlic butter. Try it in a lasagne, or even baked into a loaf of bread!
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Brunch
Eggs benedict with wild garlic hollandaise and mortadella
Level up your eggs benedict with delicious, silky mortadella and a luscious wild garlic hollandaise. A wonderfully indulgent brunch dish.
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Tapas
Wild garlic prawns pil pil
Sizzling Spanish prawns are given a seasonal spring twist in this gambas pil pil recipe with wild garlic. Try it as a starter or tapas dish.
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Wild garlic risotto
Wild garlic is a spring treat. This easy wild garlic risotto is a great way to showcase its vibrant flavour and verdant colour.
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Scones
Wild garlic and cheddar scones
Give cheese scones a spring twist. These wild garlic scones pair the fresh punch of wild garlic with mature cheddar for an easy savoury bake.
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Quiche
Trout, spring onion and wild garlic quiche
Wild garlic gives this creamy trout quiche a delicate fragrance that lifts oily fish beautifully. A perfect spring lunch for sharing.
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Wild garlic pesto lasagne
Make the most of seasonal wild garlic with this springtime wild garlic pesto lasagne. It’s quicker and lighter than your standard lasagne.
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Wild garlic oil
This bright green oil captures the intensely garlicky, slightly grassy flavour of wild garlic and lasts months in the freezer.
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Crispy potatoes with wild garlic pesto mayo
Meet your new favourite side dish. Top crispy potatoes with dollops of DIY wild garlic pesto mayo. Serve as part of a laid-back Sunday roast.
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Vegan comfort food
Vegan wild garlic lasagne
Plant-based foods can be pricey, but if you forage the garlic, this vegan lasagne recipe delivers punchy flavours and moreish ‘cheese’ sauce.
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Roast chicken
Wild garlic, tarragon and mint roast chicken with lettuce and peas
This springtime wild garlic roast chicken makes the most of seasonal spring produce – wild garlic and herbs like tarragon and mint.
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Wild garlic butter
Now you've foraged for it, are you wondering what to do with your wild garlic? Here's a handy, freezable recipe for wild garlic butter.
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Wild garlic ravioli
Want to make homemade wild garlic ravioli from scratch? This recipe is perfect for spring: homemade spinach pasta filled with wild garlic.
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Homemade pesto
Wild garlic and hazelnut pesto
This four-ingredient wild garlic and hazelnut pesto takes just 10 minutes to make and tastes great with soups, pasta dishes, meat and fish.
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Toasties
Cheddar, pickled mushroom and wild garlic toastie
In a cheese toastie cook-off, chef Sasha Matkevich came out on top with this rich, cheesy comforting recipe with quick-pickled mushrooms.
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Wild garlic pesto pappardelle with crispy ‘nduja breadcrumbs
This quick wild garlic pesto pasta recipe livens up your midweek repertoire with a spicy n'duja kick. It's ready in just 15 minutes.
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April seasonal
Pork chops with spelt, wild garlic and purple sprouting broccolli
This quick and easy pork recipe celebrates some of spring's most prized ingredients – wild garlic and purple sprouting broccoli.
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