Yunlin County promotes locally grown garlic with recipe ideas
Yunlin County promotes locally grown garlic with recipe ideas
2025-05-12
When people eat sausage, fried foods, stir fry, or make a sauce, they often add a few cloves of garlic of enhance the flavor. The largest garlic-growing area in Taiwan is in Yunlin County, where 4,700 hectares is cultivated annually. Since harvest season is upon us, the county commissioner invited chef Chang Chia-hsien to demonstrate two recipes showcasing the fresh, fragrant, and spicy character of Yunlin garlic.
Under the chef’s instruction, Yunlin County Commissioner Chang Li-shan mixes a sauce together to drizzle over slices of pork belly. The secret ingredient is minced garlic grown right here in Yunlin County.
Chang Li-shan
Yunlin County Commissioner
Our garlic is not only low-calorie, but is also chock-full of allicin. It can improve your body’s natural resistance and immunity. Every year during harvest season is the best time to eat Yunlin garlic.
Take freshly peeled garlic, then add salt and some basil, and soak it in olive oil. All you can see are layers of black pepper and garlic. Although it hasn’t come out of the oven yet, the aroma of this basil garlic confit is impossible to miss.
Chen Chih-yang
Yunlin Farmers’ Association chair
Garlic isn’t just used in cooking or for eating fresh. It’s also in a lot of processed foods. During the pandemic two or three years ago, our garlic essence also sold very well, since it boosts immunity.
Each head of fresh Yunlin garlic is fragrant, pungent, and spicy. It’s loved by not only the locals, but most of the garlic eaten around Taiwan comes from here, as Yunlin accounts for 90% of all garlic grown in the country.
Wei Sheng-te
Yunlin Agriculture Department director
We produce $300 to $400 million worth of garlic every year. Each hectare can produce about 10 tonnes. Since the weather was a bit colder last year and this year, it was very good for garlic production.
Yunlin garlic, with its special brand of pungent flavor, has now entered harvest season. It’s the best time to buy. As long as it’s well ventilated, garlic can be stored for six months, so you can stock up now without worrying about it going to waste.
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雲林大蒜年種植面積4700公頃 鮮香嗆辣風味獨特
2025-05-12
不少人吃香腸、炸物、炒菜、沾醬，總是喜歡來幾顆蒜頭提味，國內最大的蒜頭產區，就位在雲林縣，年種植面積高達4700公頃，產量穩居冠軍，每年四月前後，也是雲林鮮蒜盛產期，正值選購最佳時機，雲林縣長特別邀請名廚張家憲，示範兩道特色料理，現場也飄散著鮮、香、嗆辣的迷人風味。
在名廚指導下，雲林縣長張麗善，親自調配獨門醬料，淋在五花肉上，其中靈魂角色，就是這一粒粒切碎的雲林蒜頭。
[[雲林縣長 張麗善]]
"我們蒜頭不只是低卡路里，含有非常豐富的蒜素，對身體的抵抗力，免疫力，都可以增加，每年在盛產期，來吃雲林的蒜頭，是最到味的"
將撥好皮的蒜頭，撒上海鹽，連同新鮮九層塔，浸泡在橄欖油裡，只見黑胡椒粒和蒜頭，彼此交疊，接著放入烤箱，還沒出爐，這道"塔香油封蒜頭"的香味，就已撲鼻而來。
[[雲林縣農會總幹事 陳志揚]]
"蒜頭不只入菜，生吃，其實加工產品也非常多，兩、三年前疫情期間，我們的蒜頭精也賣得很好，因為可以增強免疫力"
一顆顆新鮮的雲林蒜頭，主打香、嗆、辣，不只當地人愛吃，不少台灣人平常吃到的，多數也來自雲林縣，因為雲林蒜頭種植面積，占全台9成。
[[雲林縣農業處長 魏勝德]]
"每年的產值大概3到4億，一公頃大概就有10噸的份量，因為去年到今年的天氣比較寒冷，對蒜頭的成長，是非常棒的"
具有獨特風味、辛香濃郁的雲林大蒜，正值鮮蒜盛產期，是最佳選購時機，只要通風，蒜頭可保存長達6個月以上，不怕來不及用完。
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