Dress up a basic roasted chicken with garlic scapes for a beautiful and delicious meal. Roasted garlic scapes have a mild garlic flavor and a texture similar to asparagus, with crispy ends.
On the Ingredients
- Garlic scapes are long, curly, green stalks that grow from garlic bulbs. Often, they have an immature bud on one end, which would have developed into a flower if the scape hadn’t been harvested. In flavor, they are herbaceous, oniony, and lightly spicy when raw, though much more mild than raw garlic. After they’re cooked, they become mildly sweet, similar to roasted garlic, and have a texture similar to asparagus. Garlic scapes are only available during a short season in late spring and early summer.
Roasted Chicken with Garlic Scapes
Servings
4-6
servingsPrep time
15
minutesCooking time
1
hour30
minutesTotal time
1
hour45
minutesDress up a basic roasted chicken with garlic scapes for a beautiful and delicious meal. Roasted garlic scapes have a mild garlic flavor and a texture similar to asparagus, with crispy ends.
Ingredients
1 whole chicken (4-6 lbs)
5 large carrots (chopped)
2 large onions (chopped)
2 cups Brussel sprouts
1 bunch of garlic scape (roughly 0.5 lbs)
olive oil
granulated garlic
salt and pepper
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 425° F.
- Fill the bottom of your roasting pan with the carrots, onions, and Brussel sprouts. Drizzle with olive oil and salt and pepper to taste. Wash the chicken off and dry with paper towels.
- Set the bird on the veggies and season with salt, pepper, and granulated garlic. Put the chicken in the oven and roast for 1 hour.
- Put the garlic scapes in a bowl, drizzle with olive oil, and then salt and pepper them. Use your hands to spread the olive oil to an even coating.
- Take the chicken out of the oven and arrange the garlic scapes around it in the pan. Put it back in the oven and roast for another 30 minutes.
- Check the internal temperature of the thickest part of the chicken. It will be done at 165° F. Let the chicken rest for 20 minutes before carving.
