Stir-Fried Vegetables Stir-Fried Garlic Shoots with Jamón

Garlic shoots are easily one of my favourite vegetables. The flower stalks of garlic bulbs are very sweet and mild in flavour, with the texture of green beans. Their garlic flavour is present when raw, but mellows into a delicious sweetness when cooked.

In the Tang dynasty, long before prosciutto and Jamón Ibérico came into being, the Chinese were making Jinhua ham, a dry-cured aged ham. It was similar in texture to Ibérico ham, but with a much stronger flavour. Nowadays, Jinhua ham