Beer Battered Ramps (Wild Garlic or Wild Leeks)

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Ramps are wild garlic, or more specifically wild leeks. They can also be called spring onion, ramson or wood leek depending on where you live in the world.

I’m not in Canada this spring. Although I hate winter it is followed by my favourite food season as I love to forage edible plants.
 

 
Over the years ramp season became one of my favourite times of year and I shared many of Dave’s recipes.

Although the relationship is over, and I won’t be eating any ramps this year, I did want to share a ramps recipe that we served from our old pop-up restaurant Loka Snacks.
 
 

 
Ramps also known as wild leeks or wild garlic are great in this beer battered ramp recipe.

How to Clean Ramps (Wild Garlic)

First you need to clean them thoroughly. I learned the tough way that it’s best to cut the roots onsite, otherwise you’ll bring home an extra 6 pounds of dirt.

While foraging is amazing because the food is essentially free, you do spend extra time cleaning them. 

Fourteen pounds of ramps and a couple pounds of small field wild garlic can easily lead to a few hours of cleaning.

Like their cousin, the regular leek, there is a lot of soil in the plant and so soaking them first in water works best.

If you’re not in a restaurant with a two-step sink just set up two or three buckets in your backyard to soak and rinse.

I wouldn’t recommend cleaning leeks this in your kitchen as it can get quite messy.
 
 

 
Ramps also known as wild leeks or wild garlic. They are perfect in this beer battered ramps recipe.

While I also love the charred ramp pesto recipe at home, ramps are nature’s ultimate onion ring.

The wild garlic onion flavour works well in a beer battered ramp recipe.
 

 
Both the green leaves and the ramp stalks are edible so you can fry the entire thing whole.

The beer batter gives a great crust on the outside, texture and crunch. Super creamy, oniony flavour and cuts the potent onion garlic flavour in the ramp.

Beer battered ramps on parchment paper with dipping sauce

Beer Battered Ramps

Yield: 4-6 people
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes

Ramps are wild garlic, or more specifically wild leeks. They can also be called spring onion, ramson or wood leek depending on where you live in the world.

Ingredients

Batter

  • 1/3 cup cornstarch
  • 1/3 cup rice flour
  • 1/3 cup all purpose white flour
  • 1 tablespoon Korean chili pepper
  • 1 tablespoon kosher salt
  • 1 tablespoon onion powder
  • 355ml carbonated beer (lager or ale, not stout)
  • 250ml cold water
  • 1 tablespoon sesame oil
  • 1 tablespoon soy sauce

Korean Chili Goat Yogurt Dipping Sauce

  • 1/2 cup plain goat yogurt
  • 1/2 cup full fat sour cream
  • 2 tablespoons honey
  • 1 tablespoon Korean chili powder
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt

Instructions

  1. Whisk together first five ingredients.Add in beer and water and whisk to incorporate
  2. Add sesame oil and soy sauce and mix.
  3. Strain through fine mesh strainer
  4. Batter everything in sight!
  5. Serve immediately.

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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 10 Serving Size: 1 Amount Per Serving: Calories: 146Total Fat: 4gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 16mgSodium: 986mgCarbohydrates: 19gFiber: 1gSugar: 5gProtein: 5g

Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. This information comes from online calculators. Although BaconisMagic.ca attempts to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures are only estimates.

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Beer battered ramps on parchment paper with dipping sauce

Beer Battered Ramps

Yield: 4-6 people
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes

Ramps are wild garlic, or more specifically wild leeks. They can also be called spring onion, ramson or wood leek depending on where you live in the world.

Ingredients

Batter

  • 1/3 cup cornstarch
  • 1/3 cup rice flour
  • 1/3 cup all purpose white flour
  • 1 tablespoon Korean chili pepper
  • 1 tablespoon kosher salt
  • 1 tablespoon onion powder
  • 355ml carbonated beer (lager or ale, not stout)
  • 250ml cold water
  • 1 tablespoon sesame oil
  • 1 tablespoon soy sauce

Korean Chili Goat Yogurt Dipping Sauce

  • 1/2 cup plain goat yogurt
  • 1/2 cup full fat sour cream
  • 2 tablespoons honey
  • 1 tablespoon Korean chili powder
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt

Instructions

  1. Whisk together first five ingredients.Add in beer and water and whisk to incorporate
  2. Add sesame oil and soy sauce and mix.
  3. Strain through fine mesh strainer
  4. Batter everything in sight!
  5. Serve immediately.

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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 10 Serving Size: 1 Amount Per Serving: Calories: 146Total Fat: 4gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 16mgSodium: 986mgCarbohydrates: 19gFiber: 1gSugar: 5gProtein: 5g

Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. This information comes from online calculators. Although BaconisMagic.ca attempts to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures are only estimates.

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  1. Geraldine says:

    Hi, I am enthalled with the recipe, however do you cook these? (I am assuming) I never know what oil to fry in at what temperature, etc.etc.

    1. We had to scale the liquid way back because the batter was too loose. We went with a little more than one cup and just went with soda water as that’s what we had on hand. 2 minutes total at 350 – flipped the ramps after a minute, seasoned with salt as soon as they came out of the fryer. Tasty!

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