Topic: Elephant garlic

[Peripatetic Phil]

Not sure who reported the "one clove per head" garlic now to be found in Aldi/Asda/Lidl (I forget which) but Waitrose have now gone one better with their Elephant Garlic.  A single head can weigh half a pound, and a single clove can weigh over an ounce.  Boy does this save time, and it peels so easily as well !  Trying it for the first time this evening in a KD1/PC base, and will also make up some g/g paste using it.

** Phil.

[curryhell]

Any chance of a picture of this beast Phil.  Could be a godsend.  Please let us know how the puree turns out.  I wonder if there's a cost in terms of the taste difference because of its size versus the conventional garlic

[Peripatetic Phil]

I am afraid the picture won't be of the whole head, because I have already used three cloves, but I will try to rotate it so that it is not too obvious !  Here it is ...

[Stephen Lindsay]

Hope folk manage to make adjustments when a recipe calls for two cloves of garlic chopped!

[curryhell]

Now that is what i call a head of garlic.  A couple of cloves and i'm gonna be in garlic heaven : : ;D

[Malc.]

What you should understand about elephant garlic though, is that it is alot 'softer' in flavour than regular garlic. Whilst a single clove of elephant garlic may be almost as big as an entire head of regular garlic, you'll find that a single clove of regular garlic will deliver as much 'punch' as a single clove of elephant garlic. Hope this helps.

[tonybatty]

Wikipedia reports that Elephant Garlic is not a true garlic but from the leek family, though it tastes more like garlic than leek, and has a milder taste than true garlic.

[Secret Santa]

How come no one has made the joke about it being Jumbo sized yet?  ;D

I think I'll stick to the real stuff though.

[curryhell]

this isn't white elephant garlic by any chance is it? ;D