Ficaria fritters

[Wildwalk]

One way I cook lesser celandine roots.

This is only one plant, so easy to collect in abundance at this time of the year. It is cited as having pound for pound more carbohydrate content than potatoes.

The only addition I made is butter which dosent totally over power the flavour and the texture is sublime!

 

[TeeDee]

One way I cook lesser celandine roots.

This is only one plant, so easy to collect in abundance at this time of the year. It is cited as having pound for pound more carbohydrate content than potatoes.

The only addition I made is butter which dosent totally over power the flavour and the texture is sublime!

I for one very much appreciate the step by step images you've presented. Thank you.

 

[Toddy]

Really nice show and tell Thank you

I never thought to fry them, I just boil them up for a couple of minutes and they're like mini-mini spuds, sort of. Peanut sized spuds.

Blasted things infest my garden (woodland edge) and they spread. The woodpigeons love the flowers and aerial bulbils from them too.

M

 

[Wildwalk]

I for one very much appreciate the step by step images you've presented. Thank you.

It’s also great in an omelette or added into bread mix! Just make sure if you are adding them into bread to mash them up so they cook properly!


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[Wildwalk]

Really nice show and tell Thank you

I never thought to fry them, I just boil them up for a couple of minutes and they're like mini-mini spuds, sort of. Peanut sized spuds.

Blasted things infest my garden (woodland edge) and they spread. The woodpigeons love the flowers and aerial bulbils from them too.

M

Thanks Toddy! Yeah they can be a problem though I’ve taken to using them a lot more when I can. They really are a tasty morsel!


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[AlexUK]

I had though celandine was toxic in some way?

 

[Toddy]

I had though celandine was toxic in some way?

Lesser celandine, Ficaria verna is fine to eat, just cook it first. That goes for the tops too, which are traditionally added to salads in some parts of Europe.

Cheladonium majus, the greater celandine, is a tall woodland plant. The sap from it is not something you want to play around with, it used to be used to remove warts.

 

[AlexUK]

Do you mean you add cooked tops to the salad, or the tops can be eaten raw?

 

[Toddy]

All parts must be cooked.
Cooked tops are let go cold and then added to the salad.....salad was / is for many more than a scant lettuce, tomato and cucumber type dish

You'd cook asparagus before adding pieces to a cold salad, same with the lesser celandine tops.

Quite nice cooked and then eaten in a buttered sandwich too.

 

[AlexUK]

I must try this! Is there a recommended way to cook in the woods (I guess simply boiling but that dilutes flavour I guess - probably steaming not practical though)?