How To Make Garlic Scape Pesto

Every year we are rewarded with garlic scapes in the spring, this is our zesty adaptation to the classic pesto recipe.
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[@gottafly125]

I love going back and watching your old old videos.

[@paula.2422]

Just made this last night and made my pizza...and added my homemade capicollo, and sun-dried oregano and basil....DEEEELICIOUS!!! Awesome recipe. Thank you so much 💓.

[@rhondabaker7611]

Thanlyou for your video. This is my first year using my scapes. I have watched so many videos and all of them cut the bulbs off. I was glad to finally see you using them.

[@lamarchickk]

What I found is putting them in ice trays, to freeze them, and making cubes out of them, is perfect amount, just one cube per meal

[@ignaciaforteza7731]

Never heard of this pesto. You sure know just about everything in cooking. More, more. Thank you.

[@thegirlwithdustonherface]

I like my pesto made with basil and macadamia nuts! So yummy! I also put in parm cheese freshly grated, salt, pepper, olive oil and lemon juice!

[@algigirl]

The leaves you could thinly sliced and added into soup,mixed vege, added into grill fish etc. The taste is sweet. Once cooked garlicky smell disappeared.

[@Fezdani]

Instead of pine nuts I substitute with sunflower seeds, and they always work great in any kind of pesto!

[@akindofmagick]

Gorgeous! thank you so much - making this tonight with scapes from our CSA!!

[@vann8414]

Learned something new. Thank you.

[@GardeningBarefootTina]

Wow, thanks, I have just started making basil pesto, and now Ive seen your garlic scapes pesto, I have to grow this. Yum what you did with the pizza base, love it.

[@kimprocarione5473]

Yum! And a use for the buds is awesome! Great to learn!

[@appalachianfamilyrecipes4647]

I absolutely love your channel your videos are so down to Earth and I learn something new from every one I watch :)

[@terryleblanc6868]

You have some beautiful healthy garlic..

[@gmcc410]

Oh my goodness i'm so excited about this video. When i grew garlic i thought they had bolted when this happened i never knew the scapes were normal and i could use them! When i get back to growing im so doing this! :-)

[@dr.rev.lindabingham]

Blessings to all!

[@chucklambert7470]

Happy Thanksgiving to you guys.

[@kylejones2075]

Yummy, I want to come live with you. You do really great inventive things keep em coming.

[@elkhunter76]

looks great but most importantly I learned something about growing garlic.

[@jerrymather4218]

Great videos! I just subscribed. Y’all are an inspiration to others who want to grow.

[@suntwistacreshomesteadingh8813]

Great recipe can't wait to taste it. Love the pizza idea, that will be dinner tonight 🤠

[@a.abbasi43]

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[@teresamackenzie9896]

The pesto makes a great pizza sause as well.

[@SimpleLivingAlaska]

Teresa MacKenzie we love it as a pizza sauce 😀

[@Annie.xx-xx]

That looked delicious on your pizza 🍕

[@tritontransport]

It is . 🤫 Garlic scapes are a secret most people don’t know about

[@sylviafoust9545]

Looks really good. I've never had pesto. I'll have to try this.

[@marylouise890]

I’ve never tasted it. Looks yummy! Dang same I can’t grow a garden anymore. And happy others are able bodied. 😊 Thanks for making it. My mama and mamaw, taught my sister and I how to cook. We’re in Arkansas. Close to Memphis, Tn. We way out in the country. Our seasons were and mostly still is, salt, pepper, sage for Cornbread dressing at Thanksgiving and Christmas 😊 😢Garlic almost put me in the ER. The person that made it knew garlic was deadly to me. Well maybe they didn’t know if it made me react that badly or not***but she knew I couldn’t eat garlic. I use to. Makes me feel bad. Very Bad. Bad enough for me to feel like I was gonna die from gas, I recon. BUT 😢 I 😮 LOVEEE 😮‍💨😋Garlic 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@marylouise890]

You check ‘em for bad beans and give them a good bath with COLD water. Then I add olive oil to the pot first. Salt, black pepper. With a tiny amount of smashed garlic to a big pot of boiling water. Stir a little bit. Put a lid on. Right before they start to boil, I turn the heat down to where the beans are just barely moving. Wait a minute for the heat to cool off a little bit. Then put the lid back on. There is actually two ways to cook them. The other way you cook on fast. Watch the water level. Best to start off with what you may think is too much. If it winds up with weak tasting almost soup stage, keep cooking and watching them. This is the way I like to eat the bean soup 😂. My husband wants them to keep their bean solid. Not me. 😊 One more thing. I heard it’s best to wait until things are finished cooking because it will taste better. I wonder if it true. Never did it , yet. 😋 🎄🤶🎄

[@marylouise890]

I’m sorry I meant to say. Wait to the end to add the black pepper 😊

[@missmix48]

That sounds Delicious. I just picked my scapes and this is what I am going to make with them. I also make a Tahini sauce that is almost the exact same consistency so I am going to make that with scapes too instead of the cloves of garlic. I am seriously bad at measuring but here are the ingredience for that Tahini sauce. Tahini (about 1/2 cup) I start with the same amount of water, Garlic (or scapes) soy sauce (1 tab or so) Lemon juice (about 1 whole or equivalent of bottled), I always add some Ginger to taste (mine is ground in a bottle in the refridge), Black pepper. I always eat mine over angle hair pasta (all cold) but if you like it hot you will need Much more water as it gets Very Thick as it heats. You can also add other stuff to it to make it your own.

[@SimpleLivingAlaska]

S. Woods sounds awesome! Maybe even add some chickpeas? Hummus?

[@litaholloway2721]

I’ll add cheese with my homemade garlic pesto. Thanks🙏

[@nancyhaywood6486]

that pizza looks delicious

[@fletchybabe6172]

Nice recipe, having read a few of the comments I have this tip: If you stir fry the scapes in olive oil before blending it shouldn't break the blender 😁🌱☀️

[@vmargarita]

looks yummy on pizza!! Pine nuts are my favorite, trying for sure!

[@777butterscotch]

6:05 was so satisfyingggggggg😂😂😂😂😂

[@ladydragon3648]

That was funny to see the pesto go down like that. lol

[@PatNetherlander]

That’s a great alternative pesto! Would use Parmesan in it though. Love cheese hahaha!

[@10knucklechuckle]

Nice recipe. I've always harvested these by simply pulling them out, not the whole plant just the scape.

[@SimpleLivingAlaska]

10knucklechuckle, that is great to know. I'll skip the pair of pruners next time! :)

[@marylouise890]

I’m curious Did it hurt the garlic when you just pulled the scape out, instead of just cutting the stalks? 🤔

[@10knucklechuckle]

@@marylouise890 Not at all. Some will snap off where you would cut them and others you will get roughly an added 6 inches or so. I've never had issue with it harming the plant.

[@user-oz8nq3hy4f]

Hello) great videos ! you are awesome people. I have question. If I freeze pesto , can I skip vinegar ?

[@Ypacarai]

I never seen how garlic looks like in the field. And garlic scapes I see at nearby markets are from China (I'm from Japan) and are thinner & shorter. Domestic scapes are only on local market where garlic is cultivated like Aomori prefecture. I must try this anyway.

[@nigelkavanagh2048]

Great vid! Looks lovely, does it freeze hard in the freezer?

[@carolynmoody9460]

❤

[@jmarkley767]

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[@carrolbrown7671]

😋

[@liliyasgardenchannel8876]

Elephant garlic is actually a leek lol. Nice leek pesto:)

[@kashyapram0]

Walnuts are more affordable. I like the honesty 😉

[@emilybh6255]

When they point straight up the bulb is ready to harvest. The time to get the scapes are before they are pointing up to the sky. I see you are using the flowers as well. A lot of people don't use them. I made pesto using them before and mixed it with basil and it came out bitter tasting. I didn't use a lot of oil. So that may have been the problem. Anyway, now I'm on the hunt for garlic scape pesto recipes to see which ones sound like they'd taste the best. Your addition of vinegar sounds interesting.

[@beckypincalifornia1985]

Never had scapes before. Don't have enough land to grow garlic. Does anyone know if they can be found anywhere? I live about an hour north of Gilroy, the garlic capital of the world! Please, please. Always roast your nuts (seeds, whole spices, whole grains,) before adding. Takes a minute or two in a hot pan, intensifies the flavor. (Do not burn!) Lengthens the shelf-life. Love your cooking!

[@katydidiy]

Try your local farmers market. You don't need much dirt to grow garlic. Maybe a square foot or so. Buy some fresh at that farmers market, preferably hard neck. In the fall, loosen the soil, divide the head into individual cloves, push into the soil about 2 inches down and 4 inches apart, water well and cover with mulch of any kind. They will start growing right away but go dormant when the days get short and start to grow again as they get longer. Mine come right up through leaves and snow here in Wisconsin. No need to fertilize either. That would just give you top growth. Letting yours continue to grow till you get some scapes will be rewarding, not to mention your own garlic. You might try growing in a storage bin too on a patio. Just add drainage holes and commercial potting soil. If you use garlic from the grocery it will probably fail as they will have been chemically treated to prevent sprouting.

[@aidanrichard4324]

Make this again!

[@rhea07291980]

❤️😍❤️😍

[@kan-zee]

😎👍

[@rodin390]

👍🏻

[@Mrsnufleupagus]

Dan Bois sent me over and that looked down right delicious! Great use of scapes and love the fact it stores well:)) All the best folks:)

[@SimpleLivingAlaska]

Thank you, we're hoping to get the garden going next spring, it was hard to leave our crops behind!

[@Mrsnufleupagus]

I can only imagine! Anything remotely garden orientated and ya had me at hello!!

[@SimpleLivingAlaska]

@@Mrsnufleupagus love your channel name, we routinely had dirt in our meals, I would lounge in the soil of the garden beds as well!

[@tietscho]

6:04 lol

[@dorenenagy564]

That looks delicious. I'm thinking Lemons are expensive up there? Due to all of them probably have to be brought in to the state.

[@SimpleLivingAlaska]

Doreen Nagy yes they are, we stopped buying citrus a few years ago, only once in a blue moon now. In Oregon we had mini orange, lime and lemon trees ☺

[@tritontransport]

I’ve used walnuts, pine nuts and even raw unseasoned sunflower kernels. I don’t think it matters much. Some people don’t use any 🤔. I add Parmesan also

[@sgrvtl7183]

Are you in Oregon?

[@mireillekulisz8530]

We have grown garlic for few years now and never knew about this. Now, I just made some snd I find it a bit liquify. What can I do to improve the consistency? And I smell very garlicky. Can I do something to lessen the taste? Thank you.

[@hullabaloo-hcd]

Add less olive oil

[@angelolivolsi1492]

does that bow have chicken on it

[@MartyFRsfNE]

will the garlic try to create more scapes after you cut the initial one?

[@marktoldgardengnome4110]

No

[@coultonelliott4312]

6:00

[@haydehabdolahian7691]

So you guys don’t use Basel for your pesto?

[@beckypincalifornia1985]

The garlic scapes are a substitute for basil. A hint of the garlic taste and the green of basil. Where I live, people make "pesto" out of spinach, broccoli, kale, etc.

[@Inkdraft]

Written recipe link didn't work.

[@SimpleLivingAlaska]

Inkdraft thank you, that we changed over our website awhile back and I never update this, I apologize, here is the correct link: www.simplelivingalaska.com/simplelivingalaskablog/garlic-scape-pesto-recipe

[@bulkvanderhuge9006]

Freeze it in ice cube trays

[@nn6404]

So I made this recipe and it basically destroyed my blender because of the fibers. I cut them to about the size in this video but I guess my blender sucks. Knowing that, I would have cut them smaller beforehand. It's still delicious but I thought I'd leave a warning for people with bad blenders.

[@SimpleLivingAlaska]

niac 1234 we're so sorry to hear that! I also have a cheap blender that I am pretty impressed with but it does get fibers stuck around the blade. I have yet to try garlic scapes as we missed the planting last year. That magic bullet was great but she broke eventually.

[@rhondalizama1370]

No Parm cheese?

[@beckypincalifornia1985]

They don't have a lot of dairy cows or a great climate to make aged cheese in Alaska. However, our friends belong to a dairy cow share, so they can get milk. Aged cheese costs a lot to buy in Alaska. If I recall, they get enough milk and cream to use, make yogurt and fresh cheese.

[@boberedics1041]

No Oil No Fat Plant based -what can I use.

[@Bubba54321]

They start curly, you must have not checked on them soon enough. They only straighten with age.

[@AA-hy6dz]

The way I cut the scape just remove the scapes leaving the leaves. I use a utility knife to make a vertical slit at the bottom of the stem. Then at the slit, move/push the leaves to expose the scape and cut thru the scape without cutting the leaves on the other side of the slit. Then holding the scape at the top of the plant, gently pull the scape out. I don’t have a scientific reason for doing it this way.

[@evid1000]

That look strikingly like mayo. Your oil emulsified. I may try that instead of pesto like I usually make.

[@Petrajac88]

sell me ur pyrex bowl :)

[@ritaadams8379]

I have my mother's set. She got them as a wedding gift in 1967. The pattern is called Amish Butterprint.

[@jongray6159]

Elephant Garlic is actually a member of the fennel family and not a true garlic.

[@metamud8686]

Wow, that's a sick amount of oil to be consumed. Oil is not a food! Then again, that's probably why it freezes so well?

[@SimpleLivingAlaska]

metamud It is a lot but I believe that's the norm for pesto, even though this isn't true pesto.

[@brucea550]

As a kid, one of the lawns I mowed belonged to an Italian widow. If anyone had told her olive oil isn’t a food she would probably have smacked them with a skillet! She had gallon jugs of it.

[@terryleblanc6868]

Olive oil , good stuff.. hydrogenated vegetable , soy oil , not good. Artery clogger