Young Wild Garlic Salad

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4-6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cuisines of Odesa: A Ukrainian Cookbook

By Maria Kalenska

Published 2026

  • About

Wild garlic is one of the first signs that spring has come in the south of Ukraine. During the so-called “hungry gap” when very little produce is left from the previous year, and before the new season’s vegetables appear, you can find big bunches of wild garlic at local markets. The first opportunity for vitaminchiki! The garlic grows wild in many places in and around Odesa and in the UK too; you can forage for these bright green, flat leaves quite easily if you know the places to lo