Ail Rose / Pink Garlic / Ail Rose de Lautrec
The pink garlic of Lautrec is a name that refers to a traditional production of garlic in the region of Lautrec in the department of Tarn in France.
Pink garlic of Lautrec is characterized by its cloves of sustained by its strong pink dormancy which extends its marketing until spring and the flowering stem which allows for rigid clusters (called "manouilles") for presentation.
Ail Rose de Lautrec is also distinguished for its aromatic and subtle taste, sweeter and milder than its white cousin. It also keeps for much longer, six months to a year. It can be used anywhere you would normally use garlic raw or cooked, sliced, chopped, crushed or unpeeled (“en chemise”, which means “shirt on”) — but also in a variety of recipes created especially for it : a pink garlic soup, a walnut and pink garlic tart, a lime and garlic sorbet...
