Start by frying the onion in a little oil for a few minutes to soften. Add the bacon and fry for about five minutes until the bacon is cooked and the onions turning translucent. Add the garlic and reduce the heat. Fry for a few more minutes before pouring in the stock. Simmer this on a medium heat stirring occasionally. I used some of the chicken stock I had made from the leftover chicken.
I was really surprised how the garlic mellowed with cooking. There was a definite garlic undertone to the dish but it was not as overpowering as I thought it might be. The salty bacon, sweet onion, pungent garlic and juicy broccoli were all married together beautifully with the chicken stock. If you’re lucky enough to get hold of wet garlic this is certainly worth a try (I also added it to frying Chorizo and it worked a treat), if you’re brave then you could try slicing it in to a salad.
Wet garlic…you definitely made this a gem! Love ribbon pasta.
Having just made some homemade pappardelle pasta,I couldn’t resist checking out your post. Great idea using the wet garlic…pasta with fried garlic and chile flakes is one of my all time favourites. Love the addition of chorizo sausages in your recipe.
Great recipe for pasta.. and that chicken is still yielding nicely for you! I like the simple, fresh and savoury approach. A.
We use green garlic in stir-fries and soups in place of regular garlic. Your pasta sounds good, too.
Mmm… what a delicious flavours here. I love broccoli and with bacon and garlic it makes such a good pasta sauce.
I didn’t know that green garlic is called the wet garlic… Got to try cooking and eating this interesting ingredients.
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What a gorgeous dish… garlic will add flavour to anything:) I love the addition of broccoli… I love the green stuff, though hubby dislikes broccoli for some reason.
Lovely meal! It sounds as broccoli perfectly blend in this meal.
I love the variety of flavrous you have used my friend – a sprinkle of garlic and top and it is all together 😀
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
I used plenty of garlic in my cooking, into stir fried and soups all the time. Nice pasta with the garlic, what more the bacon with the green colour blooming from the broccoli.
Wild and wet garlic is growing in abundance here at this moment! I love it! What a great recipe.
Beautiful pasta dish…I love all the flavors but haven’t seen wet garlic around here. I’ll just have to sub the ordinary stuff 🙂
hi, came over from free and easy bake along. This wet garlic looks like the chinese leeks we have here but i’m not sure if they are the same one. I’ve not tried that raw, mostly stir fry like you did here and your pasta dish looks good!
Ciao Caroline, grazie di essere passata da me, vedo comunque delle belle ricette sul tuo blog… sono stato spesso a Londra, Birmingham, ho anche visitato la casa di Shakespeare, mi piace l’Inghilterra…
beautiful pasta dish! i wish i could find green garlic here!
I think I’ve had the option of getting that in my veg box too, but wouldn’t have had a clue what to do with it. Thanks for the pointers, and this dish looks amazing!
I like wet garlic, I usually roast it. The pasta sounds pretty garlicky which is perfect for me. And I love broccoli too!!
I’ve been thinking about experimenting with wet garlic too. Dried garlic is so widely used that I feel the need to try something different! I have only 21 garlic plants growing in my patch. If they were all to mature I would hardly have a huge crop, and a head of garlic in the shops goes for about 45p. On the other hand, you seldom see wet garlic on sale at all, so if I had 21 heads of this, maybe it would indeed be a worthwhile harvest.
Agree with Mark ^ you don’t see it for sale so your enjoying something that most don’t!
I ve cooked it with risotto adding the green early on and the white towards the end of cooking,
it was great, saves on adding too much salt, so I guess
its good for you!
I m going to be eating more wet garlic as our garlic
is now suffering rust pretty bad, I m going to eat every other plant, giving me food & the garlic a bit of space
to hopefully recover?!
I just love garlic and this dish looks awesome! And it’s really cool to pick fresh veggies from your garden, nothing fresher than that!