{"id":44496,"date":"2024-04-26T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegreenlist.nl\/?p=44496"},"modified":"2025-11-20T12:38:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:38:26","slug":"wild-garlic-butter-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thegreenlist.nl\/en\/wildplukrecept-daslookboter\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild pick recipe: wild garlic butter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wild garlic butter is so blissful that you can hardly believe that the main ingredient - wild garlic - just grows around your corner. Our wild-picking expert Katja shares her recipe!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Chive butter, delicious on a sandwich or on a drinks board<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The recipe for wild garlic butter is super simple: handful of wild garlic, a dollop of salted butter and you have a delicious seasoning on a sandwich or toast. That garlic flavour comes from wild garlic, a special little plant that \u2018just\u2019 grows in the Netherlands. Daslook is a special little plant that was protected until 2017. It is a wild plant with oblong leaves and white star-shaped flowers, mostly found in wooded, semi-shaded areas. It has a garlicky smell and taste, which makes it popular in cooking. The edible leaves are suitable for salads, pestos and soups, among other things. The star-shaped flowers are wonderful to use as a decoration for a dish, the seed pods can be pickled like capers, and the tubers below ground can be used as \u2018garlic cloves\u2019. Besides culinary uses, badger garlic also has medicinal properties. It is rich in iron and vitamin C and thus has a positive effect on the immune system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While you should be very aware of what you are doing with any wild-picking operation, extra caution is needed with wild garlic. This is because the plant has two poisonous brothers<\/a> (or sisters) that look a damn sight alike. The mayflower is one of them and is often better known as the beautiful, lovely-smelling but incredibly poisonous Lily of the Valley. Not an experienced wildflower picker? Then go in search of wild garlic with a guide or plant it in your garden<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is how to recognise ramson. Once it grows in your garden, it goes really fast.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Saskia getting started with Katja's wild garlic butter recipe. Delicious!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Wild pick recipe: wild garlic butter<\/h2>\n
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Daslook is a beautiful native plant that grows abundantly in spring in the Netherlands. Walk into a park or a forest and you are bound to come across the beautiful spicy flower. You can also smell it from a distance. Is it garlic? No it is ramson. And you can make a delicious butter out of it. I share my wild garlic picking recipe.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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