Grilled Scape
Another great, and very different, way to showcase scapes is to grill them, tossed with a little olive oil, salt, and pepper, over direct heat for about two minutes. Flip them once, halfway through, and finish with an extra sprinkle of flaky salt and maybe a bit of lemon juice and zest.
Compounded Scape Butter
Scapes would make a lovely compound butter with a little lemon, fresh thyme, parsley, dill and some salt in the blender - cream it all. You could use the butter to make a garlic bread.
Scape Hummus
Blend the scapes into you Hummus.
Scape Pesto
Ingredients
1/4 cup pine nuts/Hempseeds work well too and are better $.
3/4 cup coarsely chopped garlic scapes*
Juice and zest of 1/2 lemon
1/2 teaspoon salt
A few generous grinds of black pepper
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/4 cup grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese
*Or use half scapes and half herbs such as basil, dill and chervil
