Weeds, which so irritate our gardeners and owners of private farmsteads, it turns out, can be eaten instead of the usual cucumbers, tomatoes and other seasonal vegetables. How to cook wild plants and what are the recipes of delicious dishes from wild herbs? More about this.

Not really wild plants. It's probably not worth starting with wild plants, but with the most cultivated ones - our usual garden crops. The fact is that we, due to our own ignorance, traditionally throw out in the garbage the tastiest and most useful parts of plants.

However, it should be noted that today the Russians already eat "inedible" parts of plants: from the beetroot boiled different first courses, rasprobovali and pod beans. The discovery of recent years has also been the fact that the young green peas are very tasty, if there is it along with the pods.

Perhaps the revelation for the gardeners will be that the tops of carrots are very tasty if you add it to the salad and cook from it the green summer cabbage soup, and the tops of the radish are much tastier than fresh leaf lettuce. Well, and what kind of dolma without grape leaves?.

Flowers in a plate It is necessary to pay attention and on a country flower garden.

Leaves and nasturtium flowers, for example, have a sharp and spicy taste reminiscent of watercress, and will be an ornament of any table, and the unripened seeds of this plant, even more spicy and sharp, in marinated form will completely replace exotic capers.

It is not necessary to pass and by calendula (marigolds) - the flowers of this plant will give a special taste to pickled vegetable assortment, and, in addition, orange flowers will decorate cans with home preparations.

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