Spring Preparations From Wild Garlic

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Over the winter, we yearned for fresh greens and with the onset of spring we want to use it fresh. But it is useful to prepare the first greens for future use. And what to harvest, if only the snow has melted? With the first rays of spring, wild garlic begins to sprout, known for its healing properties and light garlic taste

How nice it is to be able to replenish the supply of vitamins in winter, to maintain health and good mood! To do this, I add canned wild garlic to my food.

A representative of the onion family - wild garlic often grows in the wild, but it is also not a rare guest in garden plots. Ramson occupies a worthy place in the world of ingredients for light spring salads and snacks. Wild garlic gained its popularity thanks to its unique taste without excessive bitterness, unlike its closest relatives - onions and garlic. The appearance of wild garlic is similar to lily of the valley. You can harvest the aboveground part of wild garlic already in late April - early May, always before flowering. Remember when growing this crop that drought and heat will negatively affect the qualities of the plant.

Useful properties of wild garlic

All parts of wild garlic (stem, leaves, bulb) are edible. In early spring, only stems with pointed leaves reaching a length of 40 cm are eaten. Fresh harvested greens are used as a spice, adding to salads, garnishes for vegetables, and soups. For dietary nutrition, fresh wild garlic is an irreplaceable product, it contains only 35 kcal. The phytoncidal and bactericidal effect of wild garlic is due to the content of vitamin C and essential oils in the leaves. In order to kill the harmful microflora of the oral cavity, chew a leaf of wild garlic, from which volatile substances are released - phytoncides, which have anti-scurvy and general strengthening properties. Phytoncides affect the development of tissues in the human body, strengthen the nervous system, stimulate the secretory function of the stomach and cardiac activity. For patients with atherosclerosis, vitamin deficiency, hypertension, the use of wild garlic is recommended. Raw wild garlic and its juice are useful for diseases of the thyroid gland, for skin diseases (warts, lichens), and it is also a wonderful means of preventing colds. If you are confused by the garlic smell of wild garlic, it can be easily removed. To do this, before eating fresh herbs, pour boiling water over it and pour over it with vinegar.

Wild garlic blanks

If you are going to harvest wild garlic not from your garden, follow the instructions. In the wild, the appearance of wild garlic is easily confused with a poisonous autumn crocus or lily of the valley. The characteristic garlic smell of wild garlic leaves will help not to make a mistake. For pickling, pickling, pickling, choose young leaves. The simplest recipe for harvesting wild garlic for the winter is freezing.

Pickled wild garlic, method number 1

Collect 1 kg of wild garlic, rinse, dry and mince, you can use a blender for this. To the resulting mass, add tomato paste in an amount of 200 g, vegetable oil - one glass, a tablespoon of salt and granulated sugar. Stir and bring to a boil. Spread the workpiece into sterilized jars, roll up, allow to cool and put in a cold place.

Pickled wild garlic, method number 2

Soak the wild garlic stalks for two hours in cool water to remove the bitterness. Prepare a marinade with water, sugar, salt and 9% vinegar. Put garlic cloves and bay leaves at the bottom of the jar. Tie the soaked petioles into bunches, place them vertically in jars, pour over the cooled marinade.

Winter harvesting from wild garlic

The blank does not require rolling up the cans. Boil wild garlic shoots in several waters, transfer to jars and pour the prepared mixture of vinegar and vegetable oil.

Salted wild garlic

This recipe requires a barrel. Rinse ramsons, tie in bunches. Put in a barrel a layer of wild garlic, a layer of seasonings - black and allspice, black currant leaves, horseradish, oak, mint. Fill the barrel with salted water, put oppression on top for a month.

Wild garlic tincture

Pour chopped wild garlic with vodka in a ratio of 1: 5. Withstand the solution for one month. Use the tincture inside with a strong cough, as an antimicrobial agent, treat bruises, rheumatism.