Garlic Broth

More and more of my friends are becoming vegetarians, and in the spring, the season of good vegetables and good garlic, it is a pleasure to be able to serve them delicious soups based on a meatless stock. Garlic broth is an age-old Mediterranean staple that is cheap to make and yet offers flavor and a certain body that comes from the stickiness all of us who have peeled garlic know well.

Garlic bulbs are at their juiciest, least sharp, and least bitter in spring. When long-cooked, g