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Chinese Garlic Chives

Garlic chives are also known as Chinese chives, Chinese leek or Oriental garlic chives. The plant has a distinctive growth habit with strap-shaped leaves unlike either onion or garlic, and straight thin white-flowering stalks that are much taller than the leaves. It grows in slowly expanding perennial clumps, but also readily sprouts from seed. Besides its use as vegetable, it also has attractive flowers. A relatively new vegetable in the English-speaking world but well-known in Asian cuisine, the flavor of garlic chives is more like garlic than chives, though much milder. Both leaves and the stalks of the flowers are used as a flavouring similarly to chives, green onions or garlic and are used as a stir fry ingredient. In China, they are often used to make dumplings with a combination of egg, shrimp and pork. The flowers may also be used as a spice. In Vietnam, the leaves of garlic chives are cut up into short pieces and used as the only vegetable in a soup of broth and sliced pork kidneys. Use it, finely chopped, in salads, soups, casseroles, with fish & chicken dishes, sauces and vinegar. Garlic Chives aids digestion helps to keep the immune system strong and stimulates appetite. Grow garlic chives near carrots, lettuce, beetroot, cabbage, beans and parsley to repel harmful insects.