{"id":14187,"date":"2012-02-09T13:30:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T19:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=14187"},"modified":"2012-02-09T13:30:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T19:30:46","slug":"dandelion-recipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/dandelion-recipes\/","title":{"rendered":"Edible Weeds: 7 Recipes for Dandelion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Maybe it’s the way-too-early Spring warmth we’ve been experiencing, but I’ve got greens on the brain lately… particularly the kind you can pick right from the ground<\/a>. I took a look at stinging nettle<\/a> a couple of weeks ago, and while I do want to try some of those recipes, a little research shows me that dandelion (which we get regularly in the yard) is even more versatile. Like nettle, you can use dandelion greens in place of many more common foods, like spinach; however, you can also cook the roots and the flowers of the dandelion plant. So, there’s lots of culinary potential here, beyond dandelion wine and salad greens.<\/p>\n

How to Gather and Prepare Dandelion<\/h3>\n

As with stinging nettle, our sister site Eat.Drink.Better had done the advance work on scoping out tips for foraging and preparing dandelion<\/a> for cooking. Editor Becky Striepe came across a real treasure: an episode of (then) 94-year-old\u00a0Clara Cannucciari’s “Great Depression Cooking” Youtube show which dealt with dandelion. Take a look… Clara shows you how to gather and prepare the plant, and also has a salad recipe:<\/p>\n