I was recently at the farmer's market and came across some onion scapes. The pesto recipe Iâm sharing is the product of two wonderful recipes from Food52 and a kind hattip from my friend Josh (and I think this makes three Josh mentions in the course of 1 week. Add the toasted walnuts, basil leaves, parsley, cheese and lemon juice. It is a condiment par excellence. Scapes look rather deceptively like overgrown chives, but taste just like raw garlic. They taste like the green parts of a green onion. With a food processor, making pesto is a snap â just trim the scapes and ⦠Recipe by Bjorn Bergman (one of the ski trip members!) I have never cooked with them before so I did a little research on the internet and found that pesto is a common use of garlic scapes, so why not onion scapes. If you think garlic scape pesto tastes good on a cracker, just try it on hamburgers, pasta, chicken and fish! Garlic scapes definitely taste like garlic, but the flavor is very mild and almost sweet. Garlic Scape Pesto - Scapes are a wonderful Farmer's Market treasure I discovered last year. If you want a milder tasting pesto you can add some basil or spinach leaves to lower the zest while still having a great garlic flavor. Because theyâre so mild, you can use them raw or cook them. Before chilling, scoop the sauce into a glass bowl and cover it tightly with plastic wrap. I added some basil to balance the flavors a bit, along with walnuts, olive oil, and Parmesan. Just last week, I made one batch with the first basil of the season, and another â the topic of todayâs post â  using garlic scapes. Garlic scapes add an unusual but delicious twist! Theyâre like garlic essence, without the bite you back quality of a clove of raw garlic. They are usually available from farmerâs markets during the summer and taste like mild garlic. They taste phenomenal when wrapped in bacon and cooked in a skillet over mild heat, but since eating bacon essentially undoes what eating green things does for my waistline, making pesto out of garlic scapes seemed like a better option. Use this vegan garlic scape pesto on pasta, as a marinade, as a spread in sandwiches or anywhere else [â¦] Garlic scapes are the flowerstalks of garlic plants. They make this pesto a wonderful bright sauce that compliments many dishes. https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015301-garlic-scape-pesto Garlic, or rather hard neck garlic â the kind we grow here, gifts us with two harvests. Scapes are those whimsical curly wands that stretch their way to the sky in June, in Vermont anyway. The predictable and hopeful bulbs pulled from the soil in July, and about a month earlier with garlic scapes. Like a green onion, you can slice them and use them to garnish an omelet or in a salad. Garlic Scape Pesto Recipe. 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