With my wild garlic patch doing well outside my kitchen door I decided to try an experiment yesterday afternoon. I have often combined wild garlic with pasta but read about how Jake Watkins has been making risotto with wild garlic. So I wondered about adding a wild garlic taste to sushi.
I took a good handful of wild garlic leaves and washed and dried them, then put them in a wet and dry spice grinder with 2 tbsp rice vinegar, 1 tbsp mirin and 2 tsp sugar. I ground them to a sort of paste that I added to 250 g of sushi rice when the rice was still hot.
My family thought it tasted really strongly of wild garlic though I barely tasted it with the wasabi and soya dip. However I certainly have a wild garlic taste in my mouth this morning!
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I have relented on my plan not to have any this year and had stir fried rice with egg, smoked haddock, mushrooms and wild garlic.