Steamed Flowering Garlic Chives with Ginger Butter

This simple, unorthodox treatment rewards with beauty, ease of preparation, and a surprisingly sweet demeanor. The bright green bundles, which suggest miniature asparagus in both appearance and taste, brighten main dishes from steamed seafood to roasted lamb—and just about anything in between. For a vegetable meal, serve with grilled mushrooms and buckwheat (kasha) or aromatic rice. If you don’t care to buy additional chives to bind the bundles, slim scallions halved lengthwise will do the