Garlic Chives

Garlic chives flower

Garlic chives in Indonesia  popular with name "Kucai". Garlic chives commonly known as Chinese chives, Oriental garlic, Chinese leek, also known by the Japanese name nira, is a vegetable related to onion. The Chinese name for this species is variously such as Cuchay, jiucai, kucai, kuchay, or Kutsay in Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. The unique flavor of garlic chives is sweet and garlicky. Garlic chives grow as clumps, but also readily sprouts from seed. In warmer areas, garlic chives may remain green all year base on watering. Different condition if Garlic in cold areas, leaves of garlic chives will die completely and will re-sprout in spring time.

Many Culinary from several country uses of Garlic Chives both of leaves and the stalks of the flowers are used as a flavoring in a similar way to chives, garlic and green onions are used as a stir fry ingredient. Most in Asian country, all the people using Garlic chives for culinary. In China, all  are often used to make dumplings with a combination of shrimp, egg and pork. In Nepal, many people cooks fry a curried vegetable dish of potatoes and A. tuberosum known as dunduko sag. 

People in Vietnam used the leaves of garlic chives are cut up into short pieces and cooks with  a broth of sliced pork kidneys. In Philippine cuisine, the  garlic chives usually used for filling  in "empanadas" called "kuchay pies or kutsay pies". 

In Indonesia Garlic chives is most popular such as vegetable. Many people in Indonesia using garlic chives such as flavoring dishes and cooking with egg. In Manipur, India, garlic chives most popular in locally known as 'Maroi nakuppi' are widely used in Manipuri cuisine dishes like "Ooti". The most of Korean cuisine used Garlic chives such as buchu jeon (garlic chive pancakes), Buchu kim chi (garlic chive kimchi) or Jae cheop guk (a guk, or clear soup, made with garlic chives and Asian clams). Garlic chives as well as complementary food and flavoring also has other benefits. Garlic chives are also good for the treatment of high blood pressure. There is one more type of natural ingredients Garlic chives have benefit as anti hypertensive.


This is the garlic chives scientific classification:
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species: A. tuberosum
Binomial name Allium tuberosum round.

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