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Cooking
Boil whole in salted water with some lemon juice, then relish leaf by leaf with melted butter, mayonnaise or vinaigrette, until the meaty heart is revealed.
You can also roast their hearts to golden succulence alongside new potatoes. Or braise them and eat with broad beans and mint for the ultimate seasonal dish. Guy lovingly preserves the hearts in jars of olive oil to see him through the rest of the year…
Storage
Keep for up to a week in the bottom of the fridge.
Season
Harvested late May to late July - smaller heads from new plants in Sept/Oct.
Country of origin
Grown in UK
More info
Ours were bred from French stock, imported by Guy Watson and his dad in a rowing boat from Brittany. If you leave globe artichokes to grow they will open into the purple flowers sold in dried flower shops. They're a great thing to grow where rabbits are a pest, as rabbits just won't touch them.
Suitable for vegans.