Cooking with Dandelions
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"You cannot forget if you would those golden kisses all over the cheeks of the meadow, queerly called dandelions." - Henry Ward Beecher
Put that stubborn backyard weed to better use... on your dinner table! Dandelions can be a yummy addition to a fresh salad, or can even be used to make a coffee-like drink. They also can be used in soups and as their own side dish.
There is one major thing that has to happen if you are going to turn this funky weed into a kitchen staple: you have to take care of your garden organically. Anything that gets put on your grass or soil has to be safe for human consumption if you are going to harvest dandelions from your own yard, or you risk making you and your family very sick. It's best that the yard be cared for organically for at least three years before you start to harvest your dandelion greens.
There is one major thing that has to happen if you are going to turn this funky weed into a kitchen staple: you have to take care of your garden organically. Anything that gets put on your grass or soil has to be safe for human consumption if you are going to harvest dandelions from your own yard, or you risk making you and your family very sick. It's best that the yard be cared for organically for at least three years before you start to harvest your dandelion greens.
Recipe Collections
Each of these sites has multiple recipes for dandelions, both raw and cooked. I like to pick fresh dandelion greens from the backyard and add them to salad where the lettuces are softer and sweeter. The fresh dandelion gives the mix a bit of tang and bite.
- Dandelion Recipes
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- Dandelion Recipes at Food Down Under Recipe Database
- Dandelion Recipes at Food Down Under Recipe Database - 57 Recipes for dandelion - 200000+ Recipes for Lovers of Food
- Wild Foods, Dandelion Recipes and more!
- Dandelions are in incredibly nutritious and delicious food. Check out one of my favorite dandelion recipes...
- Dandelion Recipes
- Cream of Dandelion Soup, Pumpkin-Dandelion Soup, Dandelion Egg and Pasta Salads and much more1
- Sunrise Herb Farm - Recipes
- Sunrise Herb Farm - natural remedies and nourishing foods for health, vitality and better living
- astray recipes: dandelion recipes
- 94 recipes matching "dandelion"
- Mariquita Farm's Newsletter - Dandelion Recipes
- The first mention of the Dandelion as a medicine is in the works of the Arabian physicians of the tenth and eleventh centuries, who speak of it as a sort of wild Endive, under the name of Taraxcacon. In England, there is allusion to it in the Welsh medicines of the thirteenth century. Dandelion was much valued as a medicine in the times of Gerard and Parkinson, and is still extensively employed.
- Delicious Dandelions
- If you&'re tired of trying to get rid of the dandelions in your yard, you might want to try cooking with them instead! Try these delicious and healthy dandelion recipes.
Dandelion Cookbooks
When To Pick Dandelions
Although edible all season, picking dandelion leaves in the early spring or late fall (after the first frost) will get you greens that are less bitter
Dandelion News and Recipes
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Dandelion Drinks
- How to Make Roasted Dandelion Root Coffee
- Roasted Dandelion Root Coffee is a surprisingly delicious beverage! It closely resembles coffee in flavor and body when brewed properly. I serve it at all my workshops and presentations and am always amused by the response. People tend to hesitantly sample it with a look of serious doubt on their faces, and the next thing you know the whole pot disappears!
- Fun With Dandelions
- Using dandelions to make a coffee substitute, tincture, aperitif, vinegar or oil
- winemaking: dandelion wines
- Two recipes for making wine from the common dandelion flower.
- Recipe - Dandelion Wine
- Dandelion wine does not require any special equipment to make. Just dandelions, some sugar and yeast, oranges and lemons, and pots to boil water in. This recipe uses cloves, which I think give it a nice touch. If you have dandelions around, give it a try!
Dandelion Cooking Comments and Contributions
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Petstrel
Feb 3, 2012 @ 1:03 pm | delete
- I love dandelions, but didn't know they were edible.
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dannydeu
Jan 26, 2012 @ 1:28 am | delete
- I use to pick Dandelions when I was little, but I didn't know you could eat them. Great lens.
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ladykida
Jan 10, 2012 @ 9:36 pm | delete
- Good eatin'!
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Tolovaj
Dec 31, 2011 @ 7:00 am | delete
- Dandelion salad is still very popular in our country. Unfortunately every year is harder to find unpolluted herbs. I heard about dandelion wine too, but never had a chance to try it.
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vidiku
Nov 14, 2011 @ 5:55 am | delete
- Never heard of Dandelion recipes before, I thought you couldn't eat them... Interesting lens~
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