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Garlic chives

Allium tuberosumAlso called kutsay, Chinese chives and allium tuberosum

Garlic chives are an herb used for their buds, leaves, and stems. Cooks ferment, pickle, shallow-fry, or stir-fry them, and use them for seasoning. They pair with egg, shrimp, and pork.

  • Plant-based
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Part used
Bud, leaf, stem
Family
Amaryllidaceae
Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
Indonesia
Garlic chives, market

Photo: Fumikas Sagisavas · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use garlic chives

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Ferment
  • Pickle
  • Season
  • Shallow fry
  • Stir fry

Preparing it

For broth, cut the leaves into short lengths.

Goes well with

Around the world

Where garlic chives is cooked

5 dishes in the catalogue use garlic chives. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list garlic chives among their ingredients.

Origins

Native to
China, Asia

On the table

Dishes made with garlic chives

4 of the 5 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Rice lengko

    Indonesia

  • Rebanira itame

    Japan

  • Soto Jepara

    Indonesia

  • I know

    Indonesia

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include garlic chives.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: garlic chives in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What garlic chives is called

Names in 60 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Allium tuberosum · cuchay

  • French

    Ciboule de Chine · Allium tuberosum

  • Italian

    Allium tuberosum

  • Portuguese

    Allium tuberosum · Allium ramosum · Cebolinho chinês

  • German

    Allium tuberosum · Knoblauch-Schnittlauch

  • Dutch

    Chinese bieslook · Allium tuberosum

  • Russian

    Лук клубневой · Allium odorum · Лук пахучий · Джусай

  • Polish

    Allium tuberosum · Czosnek bulwiasty

  • Arabic

    إليوم توبروسيوم

  • Bangla

    চিভ

  • Urdu

    ثوم دَرَنیہ · Garlic chives · ثوم درنیہ · Allium tuberosum

  • Chinese

    韭菜 · 韭 · 韭子 · 薤白

Show all 60 languages

  • Albanian

    Allium tuberosum

  • Aragonese

    Allium tuberosum

  • Asturian

    Allium tuberosum

  • Banjar

    Kucai

  • Basque

    Allium tuberosum

  • Belarusian

    Allium tuberosum

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    Allium tuberosum

  • Bulgarian

    Allium tuberosum

  • Cantonese

    韮菜

  • Catalan

    cibulet de la Xina

  • Cebuano

    Allium tuberosum

  • Central Dusun

    Losun

  • Czech

    česnek hlíznatý

  • Egyptian Arabic

    اليوم توبروسيوم

  • Esperanto

    Ĉina ajlo

  • Extremaduran

    Allium tuberosum

  • Filipino

    kutsay

  • Finnish

    kiinansipuli · Allium tuberosum

  • Galician

    Allium tuberosum

  • Gorontalo

    Kucai

  • Icelandic

    Allium tuberosum

  • Ido

    Allium tuberosum

  • Indonesian

    Kucai · Bawang kucai · Daun kucai

  • Interlingua

    Allium tuberosum

  • Interlingue

    Allium tuberosum

  • Irish

    Allium tuberosum

  • Japanese

    ニラ · にら · 韮 · キュウシ

  • Javanese

    Kucai

  • Korean

    부추 · 정구지

  • Latin

    Allium tuberosum

  • Literary Chinese

    韭

  • Macedonian

    кинески власец

  • Malay

    Kucai

  • Manchu

    ᠰᡝᠩᡴᡠᠯᡝ

  • Min Nan Chinese

    Kú-chhài

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    kinaløk

  • Occitan

    Allium tuberosum

  • Pampanga

    Kuse

  • Romanian

    Allium tuberosum

  • Simplified Chinese

    韭菜

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    韭菜

  • Sundanese

    Kucay

  • Swedish

    Kinesisk gräslök · Allium tuberosum

  • Thai

    กุยช่าย · กุ้ยช่าย

  • Traditional Chinese

    韭菜

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    韭菜

  • Ukrainian

    Allium tuberosum

  • Uyghur

    كۈدە

  • Venetian

    ajo cineze · àgio cineze

  • Vietnamese

    Hẹ · Allium ramosum · Allium odorum · Cửu thái tử

  • Volapük

    Allium tuberosum

  • Waray

    Allium tuberosum

  • Zhuang

    Byaekgep

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos
  • Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q42285

Photos

Photo: Fumikas Sagisavas · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons