Dandelion leaf salad

Dandelion leaf salad

Category: Cold meals and snacks

Ingredients
Dandelion leaves
Bacon
Crackers
Garlic
Salt
Pepper
Vegetable oil

Cooking method

• This is a real spring treat.
• I usually buy dandelion leaves. In France, they hit the shelves in March-April under the name PISSENLIT.
• But one day, I went for a walk in the garden and picked fresh dandelion leaves) and made a salad of them !!! Delicious !!!
• The main thing is to tear the leaves to flowers, after which they become bitter.
• First, rinse the dandelion leaves well.
• Chop them finely and season them as you like. I make with olive oil, wine vinegar, salt and pepper.
• Then we prepare the croutons. You can use store-bought ones (preferably with garlic flavor) or cook yourself.
• I cook myself.
• I cut white bread into cubes and put it in the microwave for a few minutes (about 2). You can pre-grease the bread with garlic, sprinkle with oil, etc., as you like.
• EVERYTHING TO YOUR TASTE !!!
• After that, fry the bacon in a frying pan, add finely chopped garlic, and pour in the croutons. We fry everything together so that the croutons absorb the juice and the smell of bacon and garlic, and pour hot into the salad. Stir lightly.
• We serve immediately! Warm it tastes better)

Note

Dandelion is a wild perennial herb up to 30 cm high with a fusiform thick fleshy root, leafless flowering stem, rosette of notched-pinnately dissected leaves and golden-yellow flower baskets. Grows in meadows, meadows, wastelands, near roads, in forests, parks, vegetable gardens; grows from April to October. Young leaves are eaten (harvested before the flower arrows appear), in which up to 1.9% of protein, there are vitamins carotene (6.4 mg%), groups B, C, (22 mg%), salts of iron, cobalt, phosphorus , calcium, aluminum, manganese.

Dandelions are eaten fresh as a salad, boiled as spinach. To remove the bitterness, the leaves are placed in salt water for 30 minutes. The salad is prepared in a mixture with other vegetables or separately. When using the vinegar-mustard dressing, the bitterness in the salad is almost not felt. Pickled dandelion buds are substituted for capers. They are added to hodgepodge, vinaigrette. Flowers can be put in milk soups and as a seasoning in salads and cottage cheese. Jam is made from the flowers (it has a peculiar taste and smell), and a "coffee" drink is prepared from the fried dandelion roots (a thick black infusion with a pleasant taste and smell). Young leaves are harvested from early spring to late autumn, flowers - in May - June. The roots are dug up in early spring (before the beginning of the growing season) and in autumn (during the wilting of the leaves, August - September). They are washed, cut into pieces, dried and crushed (stored in a sealed container).

Great option! I will definitely do it soon!

Thank you)) This is very tasty!
I buy salty bacon)

An interesting recipe!
It's a pity, we have all the dandelions in bloom. I will definitely try it next year!

Thank you !
Many have already faded, the seeds are already flying everywhere))
I should have laid out the recipe early, ehh))

[Lisichkalal]

Lisichkalal, Svetlana, it's never too late!
But now I know what to do with dandelions from the garden after weeding

exactly, exactly!

Added on Friday 29 Apr 2016 11:44 PM

True, the ones that I in the narwhal garden were poorer than the purchased ones, but still very tasty, and, importantly, useful.

Insanely delicious! A mouth full of saliva! I want to grab a lantern in my teeth and look for leaves in the night
I will definitely try!
As I understand them, you can collect them all summer round. The main thing is to find those shoots that have not bloomed?

Irish, it’s even tastier than you think) for the first 3 years of my life in France I was crazy about this salad and couldn’t get enough. Every Thursday I ran to the market, it worked only on Thursdays, and bought PISONLY.
And, despite the fact that these purchased leaves were always very difficult to wash, they were always full of soil in them, every evening I prepared this salad)
But you can tear these leaves only in early spring (or when dandelions begin to grow in someone), when they just appear. As soon as the yellow flowers started, that's it, the season has passed. And the leaves will be tough and bitter. Even if this particular plant does not have a flower.
So summer is not suitable (Seasonal salad.

Irish, it’s even tastier than you think) for the first 3 years of my life in France I was crazy about this salad and couldn’t get enough. Every Thursday I ran to the market, it worked only on Thursdays, and bought PISONLY.
And, despite the fact that these purchased leaves were always very difficult to wash, they were always full of soil in them, every evening I prepared this salad)
But you can tear these leaves only in early spring (or when dandelions begin to grow in someone), when they just appear. As soon as the yellow flowers started, that's it, the season has passed. And the leaves will be tough and bitter. Even if this particular plant does not have a flower.

and where have you been before ??
what is there now? we have been blooming for a long time

Wott, wrote earlier that she was late (((
Well, at least today I laid it out, I was going for 2 years)))))
Looking forward to next spring!

Wott, wrote earlier that she was late (((
Well, at least today I laid it out, I was going for 2 years)))))
Looking forward to next spring!

So!!! write down next spring to remind Tumanchik (this is somewhere in the beginning of April), so that she does not forget to kick the dandelion leaves!
MANDATORY !!!

Done !!!
Throw usefulness in your bookmarks, and I will remind you)))))

Done !!!
Throw usefulness in your bookmarks, and I will remind you)))))

ALREADY IN BOOKMARKS!

And we just got out and do not bloom yet. I eat them every spring, usually I just add them to a green salad. And here is such a fabulous recipe, thanks. Little secret, put dandelions in cold salted water for 20-30 minutes and all the bitterness will go away.

Do you accidentally have recipes from primrose? And then I also pull it out like a weed. It's a shame.

I respect dandelion, I also like to dry roots

I found the same advice, I'll try it this summer. Suitable for those who grow dandelions in their yard.
You need to cover the bush with an inverted empty bucket, box, or other suitable container. In this case, the leaves are etiolated (bleached) and the bitterness allegedly decreases. Similar manipulations are done with salads to get juicy heads of cabbage. I will check the advice for myself Thanks for the recipe!

[Zeamays]

Zeamays, Sveta and I will try At my "wild" dacha there are a lot of dandelions, as well as dreaminess, celandine, willow-herb, motherwort and St. John's wort. Soon they will completely replace the remains of my beds.

[Irina]

Irina, thanks for the advice, now I will know. I soaked them too, but only to wash them)) But it turned out that I had killed 2 birds with one stone!
Natalia, I have not, but Svetlana wrote a way!
svetlana, thank you, I can imagine my site all in buckets)))) of these dandelions this year, but already yellowish, polnooooo.
By the way, in the market in France, farmers sell green leaves of young dandelions, they are so long and incredibly tasty. It seems to me that they are grown on purpose, and the price is not the lowest, but everyone is dismantled. But in stores in Germany, they are exactly white! They taste different, and I like green farmers more. And their own from the garden were tougher, but still tasty.
Irina, I wish I could go to your dacha, I would stock up on good)))) I have almost nothing like that (((mint, yes lemon balm. And rosemary and thyme. And bay leaf.

Svetik, I liked the salad. I want Dandelions do not bloom in our country, so you can pick them completely. Now I will go to bless the Easter cakes in the estate and take a look there.
Happy Easter!

Oduvany do not bloom yet, but they are bitter.Soaked in salt water, they still taste bitter. Or is it okay in a salad?

A slight bitterness, by the way useful, will still be. But the bitterness is much weaker than before soaking. I'm ok.

Thank you !
Many have already faded, the seeds are already flying everywhere))
I should have laid out the recipe early, ehh))

not too late, not too late

Our country is big aaaaaa, in the north go and some more buds just

And we only have leaves on lilacs, on a willow, a birch - only the buds have burst, an apple tree - also

[Olga]

Olga, the leaves that farmers sell never taste bitter. It seems that a special variety has been brought out)) and are sold for 15 euros per 1 kg. And strictly in early spring. With them, the salad turns out to be tender.
And those in the garden of the narwhal were poorer and a very slight bitterness was also present, but I liked it)

Added Saturday 30 Apr 2016 06:11 PM

Larissa, thanks and congratulations !!!!
How does it not bloom? )))
I don't even know, if they have grown up long ago, then maybe they will be very tough? I took the young ones at all.

Added Saturday 30 Apr 2016 06:12 PM

Irina,
Lucky for those who have not grown such yummy yet)

I came from the estate with despair, but I did not find any dandelions there. Small only in one place. And there was no time to look especially. Easter cakes also shone home. And in the yard we have a windless and quiet corner, where they bloomed. Maybe next week I'll go, I want to ring the bell at the bell tower, and look for dandelions.
Light, just puzzled.

Damn ... they bloom, the bastards already and even let the fluff go

[alina]

alina, join those waiting for next spring! )))))

[Lisichkalal]

Lisichkalal, yeah, I stood in line, walked around the grounds,: plach7: upset ... but I don’t know what to dream about ...

but I don't know what to dream about.

In the spring I always add it to the salad. Seraphim Sarovsky praised and loved her very much. It contains a lot of vitamin C. It grows like a weed. Look on the internet.

Larissa, thank you. I became interested in despair, I'll see what kind of miracle weed is. Svetochka, now I will also follow the dandelions. Thank you!

[Nina]

Nina, Thank you ! That's right, there is nothing to waste such usefulness and vitamins

Girls, I remind you that the season of dandelions has begun))

This year I also walked around the country house, but they are still very small, do not pull, and next time I will go only to May, and they will not bloom anymore for me the vitamin salad

[alina]

alina, ehh, and we had time to enjoy. Got some salad for 2 dinners. What delicious !!! Now they have bloomed, but I still want to go to the market, maybe I can still buy it. Well, that's really tasty, with bacon, croutons, yum)

Do you mean the most ordinary dandelions ?? Those that just grow up ??? Or, after all, some kind of special garden or some other ??
We have already begun to hatch, I want to try your salad ...

Added Friday, 31 Mar 2017 1:14 pm

And you can freeze them in order to stock up for a longer time ?? Or is it not worth bothering, nothing good will come of it?

[Iris]

Iris, well, yes, exactly those that just grow)) the main thing is to have time before the flowers, when only the leaves.
I don’t know about freezing, but it seems to me that then a normal salad will not work.
The leaves behave just like a regular green salad.
I typed in 2 times, washed everything, ate some, and left the rest in the refrigerator until the next day. And the next one was very tasty.

[Lisichkalal]

Lisichkalal, lucky you: yes: and I'll pull a little jealousy, a little parsley and mint, and also the parsnip has grown well, so there will be vitamins too, but without dandelions

What is it, such a weed is everywhere and everywhere, and it disappears for nothing)))) tastier!
We have a trampoline in our garden, so it has grown completely under it! they love the shadow) I sent my daughter under the trampoline, she pulled us for 2 dinners)

[Lisichkalal]

Lisichkalal, I was left without them this year, now they are growing, but not the same ..

We are all looking forward to next year

It's a pity, I read the recipe late, now wait a whole year ...

Eh, yes, but worth it

[Lisichkalal]

We have already inseminated the first dandelions, I'm waiting for the second stream, then I'll pick up young ones, and I'll put some under buckets. I am an experimenter, however.
Lisichkalal, Svetulya, thanks for the recipe.

[Sveta]

Sveta, wow, there is also a second stream?
I only know about the first spring dandelions. And in our markets they are sold only in April-May.
Oh, I really wanted this spring salad

There was a second stream last year. It's cold this year, I don't know if it will be. This time the dandelions were mowed right under the root. But, judging by the way some fluffed up, it may be full.

[Wildebeest]

Wildebeest, and why under a bucket?

I'll fit in a little with the answer
Sveta wrote:

I found the same advice, I'll try it this summer. Suitable for those who grow dandelions in their yard.
You need to cover the bush with an inverted empty bucket, box, or other suitable container. In this case, the leaves are etiolated (bleached) and the bitterness allegedly decreases.