Have you ever tasted Garlic Bundle appetizers? Have you ever put something in your mouth and knew right then and there that you were going to gain two hundred pounds in the next few seconds? Have you ever refused garlic because you were worried about your breath afterwards? I haven't, though maybe I should. I usually just tell French Husband, "Eat those," as I point to the garlic whatever, "because I did, and two garlic breaths are better than one."
Spring dinner: Garlic Bundles with a green salad, roasted green beans and a bottle of wine. I called Sacha and French Husband downstairs.
Garlic Bundles
- 3 large heads of garlic, separated the cloves, use only the chubby ones.
- 1/2 package of phyllo dough
- 1 cup butter, melted
- 1/2 cup finely chopped walnuts
- 2 cups dried bread crumbs.
- 3 artichoke hearts optional
How to make Garlic Bundles
Peel garlic, lick your fingers, imagine your taste buds getting silly.
Preheat oven to 350 F.
Cut the phyllo dough into three fingers wide strips.
Brush with
melted butter, do not be stingy.
Place a chubby clove of garlic at one end.
Sprinkle finely chopped roasted walnuts along length of strip.
Roll up garlic clove and walnuts in strip, tucking in side edges as you
roll.
Your fingers will be covered with happiness.
Dare not to lick.
Brush bundle with more generous liquid gold (butter).
Roll the Garlic Bundle in bread crumbs.
Repeat with remaining phyllo strips, one bundle after another.
Place bundles on a flat baking sheet.
Bake 20 minute or until golden.
For added pleasure, chop a few artichokes into the roasted walnuts.
Happy garlic breath to you!
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After note:
I do not have a photo of the bundles. Taking photos at night does not show my good side.
The image of the outdoor table on a terrace was taken at La Madone.
I love garlic!
Quite an original and inventive recipe Corey, one of your own?
Posted by: Linda C. | 22 March 2010 at 01:08 PM
I can't stand garlic and this is the major problem I have every time I go to France, avoid it!
Posted by: Gracie | 22 March 2010 at 01:28 PM
this sounds marvelous and , darn it , where's the picture ?
I love to roast the entire head of garlic and then squish the soft cooked garlic out of the paperskin onto homemade bread . With butter or olive oil , of course...
Posted by: waftbyCarol | 22 March 2010 at 01:50 PM
Very entertaining, innovative style of recipe-writing! I love garlic and this sounds divine. I would say the artichoke hearts are essential, not optional.
Posted by: Dutchbaby | 22 March 2010 at 01:52 PM
maybe you will wiegh 200 pounds
but
the Garlic Part
is a Health Food
and
will help you live 200 years
or so...
:-)
not so certain
about This Part--->
1 cup butter, melted
♥
Posted by: somepinkflowers | 22 March 2010 at 02:26 PM
Love garlic but I don't think my hubby will get full for dinner on garlic bundles and a salad. I know you are Vegans, but at my house, if a dinner doesn't include some form of meat...my two men {hubby and son} will certainly complain. Now if I was just fixing dinner for myself, I would live on fresh salads and sour dough bread ;-)
Posted by: Cheryl ~ Casual Cottage Chic | 22 March 2010 at 02:33 PM
Will definitely try this! Nice combination of flavor and texture.
Posted by: Theresa | 22 March 2010 at 02:52 PM
Yummy Garlic.
love it.
Slovenia smells like garlic to me. Part of my familie is from there.
When I was younger and we drove down there for the summers, crossing the borders from germany to austria, it smelled different. crossing into slovenia, it almost instantly smelled different again. lovely different.
I know it's the garlic smell. (personal opinion)
Hated it when my parents ate garlic at home, it "stunk" of it there... couldn't smell a thing when they ate heaping garlic breads at grandmas in slovenia...
ohh the memories
Thank you :o)
Posted by: Christina | 22 March 2010 at 02:56 PM
Oh so Yummy sounding!!! Going to have to make this some time this week!!
Posted by: Hillary | 22 March 2010 at 03:07 PM
Oh garlic, how do I love thee....if I can find a gluten-free substitute for the phyllo - I'm in! Must have smelled divine in your kitchen.
Posted by: Jeanette Mc. | 22 March 2010 at 03:09 PM
Sounds great as an appetizer with drinkies...I'll make this this summer as I invite neighbors to the front pation as we drink and eat garlic bundles... I would like to try other types of bundles..feta cheese and walnuts...carmelized onions and pecans...hey we have a trend here...Luv Ya Corey..Happy, Happy Spring to Us All.....
Posted by: cynthia Wolff @Beatenheart | 22 March 2010 at 04:01 PM
I love garlic, love love love. Not walnuts tho, would substitute pine nuts. Is that Nathalies town apartment Coco ? Happy days, jx
Posted by: Julie Ann Evins | 22 March 2010 at 04:45 PM
There is no such thing as garlic breath when everybody has it!
This sounds decadently delicious!
Posted by: AmyKortuem | 22 March 2010 at 05:14 PM
waftbyCarol, yes, yes, yes!!! Roasted garlic on artisanal-quality French or Italian bread -- yummmm!
Corey, did you know there's a well-known garlic cookbook titled "The Stinking Rose"?
BTW, a good many garlic-growers in the Gilroy area are, ahem, Portuguese-Americans!
We just drove through the area on the Pacheco Pass highway east of Gilroy (en route from US 101 to I-5) last fall, including past a huge processing plant, whose garlic perfume one could smell even at a distance -- heavenly!
Posted by: Kathie B. | 22 March 2010 at 05:27 PM
These sound divine! Do you have a picture of the finished bundles? Oh...my husband and I both love garlic (and butter, and pastry dough), so I can see these being a wonderful thing. Mmmmm!
Posted by: Star | 22 March 2010 at 05:30 PM
I've always wanted to go to the Garlic Festival in Gilroy. I love garlic and that sounds sooooo good Corey! I have everything except for the phyllo dough dagnabbit or we'd be eating it tonight - I'm putting it on the grocery list right now!
And I'm curious, do you add anything to the green beans or is it simply green beans and olive oil?
Okay ... rumbly in my tumbly now ...
Posted by: Sally | 22 March 2010 at 11:22 PM
This sounds absolutely crazy good ... my husband isn't a garlic lover ... but that won't stop me from making these ... hopefully he loves me enough to get over my breath!!
I WILL make this recipe .. thank you for sharing it!!
xo
Jill
Posted by: Jill Harris | 22 March 2010 at 11:30 PM
Love garlic. Made the bundles tonight. Pretty damn good! Could have eaten five but settled on four. Thanks.
Posted by: Brother Mathew | 23 March 2010 at 05:04 AM
Your men are lucky to live with such a good cook. Green beans and garlic, a match made in Heaven.
Posted by: Jenna | 23 March 2010 at 06:28 AM
ail, ail, ail! Love that "Ail Nouveau". Makes everything better, I must try it ion your purest state.
Posted by: jend'isère | 23 March 2010 at 11:02 AM
I can't live without garlic or onions. Yum. Can't wait to bite into one, two, or three of these bundles of love.
The memories of Gilroy's stinky rose aroma on our way to Monterey to visit family.
Posted by: Susan | 23 March 2010 at 02:18 PM
I can't WAIT to try these. We adore garlic and I have been cooking more and more, even inviting friends! which means of course (especially in France) that I am receiving more reciprocal invites and this would be a lovely something to bring along ... for aperos!! yay! thanks!
Posted by: Kimberlee | 23 March 2010 at 07:58 PM
Such inspiration!!! La Madone is calling...I'm currently checking into airfares...seems like destiny....and decadence...bit of both.
Garlic bundles all 'round I say!!!
Posted by: Shelley at decoragain.blogspot.com | 23 March 2010 at 10:07 PM
No, I've never turned down garlic for the sake of fresh breath. I do what you do, make my hubs eat it too (which he is happy to do). Oh, those garlic bundles shall be mine soon!
Posted by: Carey | 24 March 2010 at 02:07 AM
@ Star, there's also a great restaurant in SF called The Stinking Rose, they do an amazing 40 clove chicken that is to die for!
Posted by: Kimberlee | 25 March 2010 at 05:33 PM
Lovely recipe...will have a go with them this comming weekend! Love your blog... ;)
Posted by: cindy | 14 April 2010 at 10:40 PM