Garlic chives

Ciboule de Chine

What it is

Chinese growers take two vegetables from the same plant: green jiucai in full light, and jiuhuang blanched under cover until the blades come up pale yellow and sweet. The flowering stems make a third, sold with the bud still shut.

In the kitchen

Add them in the last thirty seconds of a stir-fry, cut in 4 cm lengths, and do not chop them fine — the flavour comes out of the cut ends, and a fine chop leaves it in the pan.

Goes with

Pork Egg Shrimp Soy sauce Toasted sesame oil Silken tofu (kinugoshi) Shiitake

Same species

Arleux smoked garlic Banana shallot Black garlic Calçot Cévennes sweet onion Chives

Also used with

Acorn

In season alongside

Ashitaba Blackcurrant leaf Cilantro / Coriander Epazote Garlic mustard Garlic scape

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