This wild-picking dip sauce with garlic-without-look from our own neighbourhood is delicious with falafel, raw vegetables or an ordinary bowl of chips. Our wild-picking expert Katja shares her wild-picking recipe with garlic-without-look, a wild plant with an onion-look-like flavour.
Wild pick recipe with garlic-without-look
A dipping sauce starring garlic-without-look, a wild plant found mostly in spring in Dutch forests, parks and gardens. This wild plant has an onion and mustard-like flavour and a garlicky smell. It contains four times more vitamin C per gram than oranges. Impressive little plant! Mustard can be made from the seed - delicious in pestos or hot savoury dishes - and the root tastes like horseradish! The young leaves are delicious in salads, soups, pestos and anything you want to add an onion-like flavour to. It is one of the first edible wild plants of the season and a great ingredient for a culinary adventure in nature. Never pick too much - that goes for any wild-picking action, by the way! Garlic-without-look is a favourite plant of many butterflies and insects and thus super important for biodiversity.
Getting started with this wild pick recipe. It becomes a dipping sauce!
Dipping sauce with garlic-without-look
Kitchenware
- knife
- cutting board
- spoon
- come
Ingredients
- single 3-5 leaves of garlic (from the annual plant or the upper leaves of the biennial plant)
- single 3-5 green wild-picked leaves such as wild garlic, ground elder and dandelion leaf
- 2 el of your favourite mayonnaise
- 6 el plain yoghurt
- juice of 1/4 lime or lemon
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- Wash the wildflower leaves well and chop finely.
- Mix the mayonnaise, yoghurt and juice of the lemon. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Add the chopped wildflower leaves and stir.
Taking a picking break: do you know the game picking rules yet?
Wild picking is not only super fun (and tasty!), but also something you need to know a little about. It is officially banned in the Netherlands, but in many places it is turned a blind eye - as long as you do it properly. Think of nature as a wonderful buffet we can all taste from, but only if we behave. So pick with love, not greed. Want to know more? Read the unwritten rules of wild picking. We have listed it for you!
Would you also like to go on the road with Katja? Check out her website Wilderlust with all the information about its wild-picking walks and courses.
More sustainable tips from thegreenlist.nl
- Also see: On a game picking walk!
- Also see: making elderflower lemonade and cocktails.
- Also see: badger garlic butter.
- Also see: green tomato chutney.
Photo credits: thegreenlist.nl.
