Peter Erskine’s Wild Garlic Pesto

Wild garlic time is really special at Cambo – the snowdrops are just dying down and it’s always exciting when you see the first patches of wild garlic poke up. We pick the young leaves and put them in salads, then as they get more mature we use them in this pesto. When the leaves start to die down, the white flowers come out, and they make a lovely addition to salads. Finally the seed heads form, and we pickle them using the hot pickle recipe. The Erskine