Beer Battered Ramps (Wild Garlic or Wild Leeks)

Ramps are wild garlic, or more specifically wild leeks. They can also be called spring onion, ramson or wood leek depending on where you live in the world.

This spring has been a such a fun hunt for us as we venture out to forage edible plants, and with so many ramps we’ve been experimenting with what to do with them at Loka Snacks.

How to clean ramps (wild garlic)

First you need to clean them thoroughly. We learned the tough way that it’s best to cut the roots onsite, otherwise you’ll bring home an extra 6 pounds of dirt. While foraging is amazing because the food is essentially free, you do spend extra time cleaning them. It was our first time cleaning and with 14 pounds of ramps and a couple pounds of small field wild garlic we spent more than a few hours cleaning.

Like their cousin, the regular leek, there is a lot of soil in the plant and so we found soaking them first in water works best. If you’re not in a restaurant with a two-step sink just set up two or three buckets in your backyard to soak and rinse. We wouldn’t recommend cleaning leeks this in your kitchen as it can get quite messy.

 

While we love the charred ramp pesto recipe at home, Dave had an idea to feature ramps as the ultimate onion ring.

He thought the wild garlic onion flavour would work well in a beer battered ramp recipe so we have been serving it for the last few weeks. Both the green leaves and the ramp stalks are edible so we’ve been frying them whole.

The beer batter gives a great crust on the outside, texture and crunch. Super creamy, oniony flavour and cuts the potent onion garlic flavour in the ramp.

The reaction from our guests has been so overwhelmingly positive that we thought the recipe was worth sharing.

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Beer Battered Ramps with Korean Chili Goat Yogurt

 

Ingredients

• Batter
• ⅓ cup cornstarch
• ⅓ rice flour
• ⅓ cup all-purpose white flour
• 1 Tbsp korean chili powder
• 1 Tbsp kosher salt
• 1 Tbsp onion powder
• 355ml carbonated beer (regular beer, not Guiness, something you enjoy drinking)
• 250ml ice cold tap water, no ice cubes
• 1 Tbsp sesame oil
• 1 Tbsp soy sauce
• Korean Chili Goat Yogurt Dipping Sauce
• ½ cup goat yogurt
• ½ cup sour cream
• 1 tbsp korean chili powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 tbsp honey

Instructions

1. Whisk together first five ingredients.
2. Add in beer and water and whisk to incorporate
3. Add sesame oil and soy sauce and mix.
4. Strain through fine mesh strainer
5. Batter everything in sight! Serve immediately.

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Beer Battered Ramps (Wild Garlic or Wild Leeks) is a post from: Bacon is Magic

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