Name: Simple Garlic Scape Salt Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 60 min
Ingredients: Fresh garlic scapes; Salt (I use Redmond's)

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I love to use as many parts of a plant as possible. Whether that’s for skincare, home remedies or delicious recipes, I don’t like anything to go to waste! ( example: my Strawberry Top Simple Syrup Recipe) In this post I show you how to make garlic scape salt. This simple recipe is an excellent way to use this unique part of the garlic plant, and enjoy it all year round!

butcher block background, half pint jar full of brownish garlic scape salt. 2 garlic scapes sit next to the jar.

A garlic scape is a curly green blossom stem with a flower that develops on the end of it. Scapes grow directly from hard neck garlic plants in the late spring or early summer. Usually, gardeners cut the scapes to encourage the garlic plant to grow a larger garlic bulb. The scape doesn’t need to be thrown away though. It tastes and smells just like garlic and can be used in multiple different ways.

woman holding a garlic scape in her garden. The bright green scape has a small blossom head at the end

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What does Garlic Scape Salt Taste Like?

Garlic scape salt tastes just like traditional garlic salt. The main difference is that it has a slightly green hue to it due to the color of the garlic scapes themselves.

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Is Garlic Scape Salt Difficult To Make?

Absolutely not! This recipe is very fast, simple and uses just 2 ingredients! I make this salt every year for our family to enjoy, and the extra I sell in our road side farm stand. Our customers love it!

Where can I Get Garlic Scapes:

If you don’t grow hard neck garlic at your own, you may be able to find garlic scapes at specialty food stores, or local farmers markets in the late spring/early summer season.

How and When To Harvest Garden Scapes From Your Own Garden:

If you planted your own hard neck garlic in the fall, by late May/early June your garlic scapes will be budding and ready to cut.

You want to cut the garlic scapes when they’re between 6-8 inches long. If you wait too long, it takes too much of your garlic plants energy to grow the scape, and your scape stem may be too hard to use.

How to cut your garlic scapes: Cut using a small knife or scissors near where the garlic plant and base of the garlic scape meet.

woman using a small orange scissors to cut the base of a garlic scape.

Why You’ll Love This Recipe:

No Waste: This recipe uses a part of the garlic plant that most people just throw away. This recipe gives the garlic scapes a chance to shine and be enjoyed all year!
Simple: I love how easy this salt is to make! With minimal equipment, just a few ingredients, and a little time, you’ll have fresh garlic scape salt in a jiffy.
Great Gift: This recipe makes an excellent gift for friends and family or product to sell at a farmers market, farm stand, or vendor fair.
Stores Well: Something great about this recipe is how well it stores. Salt has almost an infinite shelf life. If properly dried, this garlic scape salt will have a very long shelf life as well and is easy to store for dry storage.
Can be customized: If you’d like to play with different ingredients and spices to make your own unique salt flavor, go for it! Just include the extra ingredients after the salt has been thoroughly mixed with the garlic scapes before baking.

Tips for Making Garlic Scape Salt:

Do you need a food processor/blender? Yes. You absolutely need something to pulse the garlic scapes into the salt. A food processor works more smoothly for this recipe than a blender does, a blender requires slowly adding the salt and doing several small batches so all of the scapes get pulverized.

Can you use a dehydrator to make this salt? Yes! Just set at the 200 degree setting, stir occasionally, and remove when fully dry. Continue recipe as usual. If you use a dehydrator, your salt will remain very green. Using the oven lightens the green color and adds a brownish tone.

Don’t use hard pieces of the scape: If there are any hard stem pieces discard those from this recipe otherwise they won’t blend with the rest of the ingredients and work your machine too hard.

Tools You’ll NEed:

Knife

Cutting board

Strainer or colander

Baking sheet

Parchment paper

Food processor/Blender (food processor works better)

Cup measurement

Ingredients:

Fresh garlic scapes

Salt (I use Redmond’s)

How To Make Garlic Scape Salt:

Gather garlic scapes from garden or buy from farmers market/grocery store

Preheat oven to 200 degrees

Rinse any dust/dirt off of the garlic scapes

woman rinsing garlic scapes in white deep sink in bright blue large colander.

Cut into 1 inch pieces using a sharp knife. Discard any woody ends that may not pulse in the food processor.

woman cutting garlic scapes with large knife

For measurements, use a 2:1 ratio of salt to scapes. For this recipe I used 2 cups of salt to 1 cup of scapes.

cut garlic scapes in gray colander next to bowl of salt on butcher block counter.

Add the salt and garlic scapes to your food processor/blender

vitamin blender with salt and garlic scapes in it.

Blend slowly on low and increase speed to high until salt is bright green, and all of the scapes and salt are thoroughly blended.

bright green garlic scape salt in glass bowl with metal spoon dipped in it.

Spread salt onto a parchment lined baking sheet.

woman spreading garlic scape salt on parchment paper lined cookie sheet

Bake at 200 degrees for 1 hour stirring every 15 minutes until crusty and completely dry.

garlic scape salt spread out on parchment paper lined cookie sheet

Once fully dry, set aside and allow the salt to fully cool.

If desired, return the garlic scape salt to the cleaned and dried food processor to blend one last time and break up any chunks. If you’d like bigger pieces, simply break apart using a spoon or your fingers.

Place your garlic scape salt in a glass airtight container to use and store.

Storage tips: Store in a cool, dry place. This salt will last a very long time, although potency may fade the older the salt gets.

Simple Garlic Scape Salt Recipe

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A garlic scape is a curly green blossom stem with a flower that develops on the end of it. Scapes grow directly from hard neck garlic plants in the late spring or early summer. Usually, gardeners cut the scapes to encourage the garlic plant to grow a larger garlic bulb. The scape doesn't need to be thrown away though. It tastes and smells just like garlic and can be used in multiple different ways. Garlic scape salt tastes just like traditional garlic salt. The main difference is that it has a slightly green hue to it due to the color of the garlic scapes themselves.

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Prep Time 15

Cook Time 1

Servings 2.5 Cups

Equipment

Knife
Cutting board
Strainer or colander
Baking sheet
Parchment paper
Food processor/Blender (food processor works better)
Cup measurement

Ingredients

Fresh garlic scapes
Salt I use Redmond’s

Instructions

Preheat oven to 200 degrees
Rinse any dust/dirt off of the garlic scapes
Cut into 1 inch pieces using a sharp knife. Discard any woody ends that may not pulse in the food processor.
For measurements, use a 2:1 ratio of salt to scapes. For this recipe I used 2 cups of salt to 1 cup of scapes.
Add the salt and garlic scapes to your food processor/blender
Blend slowly on low and increase speed to high until salt is bright green, and all of the scapes and salt are thoroughly blended.
Spread salt onto a parchment lined baking sheet.
Bake at 200 degrees for 1 hour stirring every 15 minutes until crusty and completely dry.
Once fully dry, set aside and allow the salt to fully cool.
If desired, return the garlic scape salt to the cleaned and dried food processor to blend one last time and break up any chunks. If you’d like bigger pieces, simply break apart using a spoon or your fingers.
Place your garlic scape salt in a glass airtight container to use and store.
Storage tips: Store in a cool, dry place. This salt will last a very long time, although potency may fade the older the salt gets.

Notes

Do you need a food processor/blender? Yes. You absolutely need something to pulse the garlic scapes into the salt. A food processor works more smoothly for this recipe than a blender does. A blender requires slowly adding the salt and doing several small batches so all of the scapes get pulverized.

Can you use a dehydrator to make this salt? Yes! Just set at the 200 degree setting, stir occasionally, and remove when fully dry. Continue recipe as usual. If you use a dehydrator, your salt will remain very green. Using the oven lightens the green color and adds a brownish tone.

Don’t use hard pieces of the scape: If there are any hard stem pieces discard those from this recipe otherwise they won’t blend with the rest of the ingredients and work your machine too hard.

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