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    Recipes for Leafy Greens

    Recipes including or based on foraged or cultivated green, leafy plants.

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    Amaranth
    Dandelions
    Garlic Mustard
    Knotweed
    Lambsquarters
    Milkweed
    Nettles
    Verdolagas or Purslane
    Watercress
    Wild Lettuce and Sow Thistle
    • Foraging Green and Red Orach / Saltbush
    • Italian Braised Escarole and Beans with Sausage
    • Plant based taco garnished with cilantro flowers, nasturtium flowers and leaves and avocado.
      Plant Based Tacos and Quesadillas (Gluten Free / Vegan)
    • Njama Njama: Braised Garden Huckleberry Greens from Cameroon
    • Fresh Stinging Nettle Tea with Mint
    • Sopa de Mora Salvadoreña
    • Fermented Dandelion or Wild Lettuce Kimchi
    • French Dandelion Salad with Bacon (Salade de Pissenlits)
    • A dish of cooked horta greens with extra virgin olive oil and lemon juice.
      Horta: Greek Wild Greens with Olive Oil and Lemon
    • A pan of cooked dandelion greens with lemon and fresh raw dandelion greens in the background.
      How to Cook Dandelion Greens: A Primer
    • Green burgers or spinach patties served on a plate with dip garnished with chives.
      Green Burgers / Spinach Patties
    • Old Fashioned Turnip Green Soup with Black Eyed Peas
    • A close up picture of Canadian lettuce flower buds (Lactuca canadensis).
      Wild Lettuce: Identification, Harvesting and Cooking
    • A simple Malabar spinach stir fry recipe in a Japanese bowl with chopsticks.
      Malabar Spinach Stir Fry with Shiitake Mushrooms
    • Garlic Mustard Pesto
    • Southern-Style Polk Salad with Scrambled Eggs and Bacon
    • Grilled corn tortillas filled with cooked quelites surrounded by plants and flowers.
      Quelites: The Edible Wild Greens of Mexico
    • a bowl of orecchiette pasta with sausage, broccoli rabe, and breadcrumbs.
      Orecchiette alla Barese
    • A green lamb saag curry in a dish with a silver spoon on a wooden background surrounded by soi, or nettles.
      Lamb Saag
    • A dried braid of wild sorrel greens with text overlay spelling the word aveluk on a black background.
      Aveluk: Armenian Dried Wild Sorrel (Dock)
    • a head of puntarelle chicory on a piece of wood with black background.
      Puntarelle: A Deliciously Bitter Italian Chicory
    • A pan of puntarelle pasta with tomato and pecorino cheese.
      Pasta with Chicory, Anchovy and Pecorino
    • a bowl of fava bean puree with greens and wooden spoon
      Fave e Cicoria (Fava Bean Purée with Wild Chicory)
    • Cattail salad with lemon, smoked trout and chickweed with runner bean flowers
      Cattail Rhizome Salad with Smoked Trout
    • Mixed sauteed wild mushrooms with chipped cheese, flatbread and salad
      Sauteed Wild Mushrooms with Chevre and Flatbread
    • Steamed Milkweed Buds (24)
      Steamed Milkweed Buds
    • Wild spinach cake recipe made with lambs quarters
      Wild Spinach Cake
    • Midwesetern Vignarola 2017
      Vignarola: Italian Spring Vegetable Stew
    • Ligurian preboggion with garlic, olive oil and lemon in a stoneware bowl
      Preboggion: The Wild Edible Plants of Liguria
    • Isirgan salatasi: Turkish raw nettle salad in a bowl
      Turkish Nettle Salad (Isirgan Salatasi)
    • Nettle, dandelion and ramp leaf pudding
      Stinging Nettle Pudding
    • Erbazzone, Italian Foraged Greens Pie
      Erbazzone (Italian Wild Greens Pie)
    • Jamaican Callaloo made with amaranth
      Jamaican Callaloo with Amaranth Greens
    • creamed spinach in a serving dish
      South African Creamed Spinach: Steakhouse Style
    • Wild fennel frond cakes on a plate with shaved fennel and orange slices.
      Wild Fennel Green Cakes
    • Cow Parsnip Green Borscht with chopped egg and dill
      The Original Borscht, with Cow Parsnip
    • Black walnut phkali spread made with lambs quarters
      Georgian Walnut Spread / Phkali
    • Bakula, Mallow and purslane with olives, garlic and preserved lemon
      Moroccan Foraged Greens with Preserved Lemon: Bakoula
    • a bowl of soup with pesto and cheese
      Authentic Pasta Fagioli Soup
    • Classic Stinging Nettle Soup or nasselsopa
      Classic Stinging Nettle Soup

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