Scallions

Young onions with tender greens, fresh or dried, early spring crop.

Scallions are young onions with tender green tops and bulbs, harvested before full size and tied in bundles. Fresh scallions are chopped raw into salads or cooked with stews; the entire plant is edible. Dried scallions are crumbled into winter broths and keep for months, adding pungent onion flavor without the bulk of full-grown bulbs. Gardeners and cooks favor them as an early spring crop.