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Wild garlic soup

An easy and beautifully-flavored soup with ingredients you can likely find in your own backyard. We forage for wild garlic about once a year.  As a kid I’d always called it “onion grass” but after researching as an adult, have found that wild garlic and wild onion are slightly different… wild garlic leaves are hollow whereas wild onion leaves are flat. If you don’t have any growing around you, you can substitute the wild garlic for green onions/ scallions or even leeks.

Ingredients

Instructions

Ingredients  

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• ▢ 1/4 cup olive oil
• ▢ 1 cup wild garlic bulbs chopped (substitute with green onion/scallion or leek bulbs)
• ▢ 2 cups potatoes, brown or russet chopped (approximately 1 medium potato per cup)
• ▢ 1 fennel bulb chopped (substitute two additional potatoes per fennel bulb)
• ▢ 8 cups chicken broth
• ▢ 2 cloves garlic or substitute cloves for wild garlic bulbs

Instructions

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  Wash the garlic bulbs and chop off the tops, setting them aside for later.
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  Chop the potatoes and fennel bulb.
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  In a pot, sauté the wild garlic bulbs and chopped fennel in a few teaspoons of olive oil. Add in the chopped potatoes and cook on medium heat until softened, stirring frequently.
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  Add in about 8 cups of chicken broth and simmer on low to medium heat.
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  Meanwhile, make the green drizzle: Thoroughly blend the tops/grass with a few tablespoons of olive oil and 1-2 cloves of garlic (or wild garlic bulbs)
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  Strain the solids out with a fine mesh strainer and discard solids. You're left with the drizzle! Salt to taste!
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  Blend the soup until creamy and smooth (with no lumps.)
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  Strain the soup with a fine mesh strainer as the bulbs are fibrous. Two rounds of straining may be necessary. Salt to taste. Pour into a bowl and apply the green drizzle on top.
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  Season with salt and enjoy!

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I have a serious thing for foraging.  Looking for something outside and bringing it home and into our lives always ends up being a good experience- one that takes us on some sort of little adventure outside that makes life a little prettier or tastier.

We don’t do pesticides in our yard and really haven’t been able to do a ton to the outside of our property yet so our grass has LOTS of plants other than grass growing in it -which used to drive me crazy- but now makes me really happy…  BECAUSE I had NO IDEA how delicious wild garlic was!!!!

 At first I had to nag the kids for help, but by the end they were all into it. When we had a huge basketful of the wild garlic/ onion grass, we brought it in and washed it all.

I’m obsessed with this soup and it was DEFINITELY labor-intensive but totally worth it.  (Next time I plan to make twice as much and freeze half of it!)

Read more about our foraging journey here!