It is best to cook dishes with fresh fern from May to June, as this period is the collection season of this wonderful product. At this time, it breaks better, so its stems have not yet been covered with old and hard fibers. Fern can not only be eaten in the form of salads, snacks or served as a main dish with meat, but it can also be prepared for the winter. The harvesting season is very fast, but with the right method of preserving it can be stored in a suitable form until May of next year.
How to cook fern? The easiest way to harvest it is salting. In this case, you do not need to add spices, special preparation of containers or the creation of any special conditions for its storage. The technology of its conservation is simple and reliable. The fern “Orlyak” is used as food. It can be bought in the market. Salting will require salt and water. It is fashionable to use glass or plastic jars as containers. The water is brought to a boil, dissolved in it is edible (preferably stone, rather than iodized) salt. The solution should be saturated, so that the addition of a small amount of table salt to it leads to its precipitation. A bunch of ferns are coiled and laid in storage utensils. It is poured with saturated saline solution (the plant must be completely covered with liquid), it is closed (no pasteurization or tight capping is required) and stored in the refrigerator.
How to cook fern in winter? Salted in a saturated solution of sodium chloride or salt, fern is not suitable for use without preliminary soaking. It is so salty that it is impossible to eat. Therefore, it is washed several times in running water, and then soaked in at least two portions of water for two hours. Each time, the water is drained, washed in running water and poured with a fresh portion. After such preparation, the fern is ready for use. It is put on the table as a snack. The plant can be added to meat salads or salads with mushrooms, cook meat with it, cook with dumplings in pots, put in any vegetable or meat soup.
How to cook fern from a pre-prepared product? There are many recipes. A delicious appetizer is prepared with fresh cabbage. You can use white or Beijing. Fern cut optional. Cabbage finely chopped. Cut the onion in half rings. Everything is mixed, seasoned with black ground pepper (salt is added as necessary) and seasoned with mayonnaise (can be sour cream or vegetable oil). Served as a salad for lunch or snacks with strong drinks. The ratio of ingredients can be changed arbitrarily.
How to cook fern with mushrooms? With this combination of products, you can get an unusual soup, a second dish, a hot or cold snack. It is put in soup after potatoes (when it boils). Excellent snacks are obtained from fern with mushrooms. It goes well with boiled or fried mushrooms (fern should not be added to salted or pickled mushrooms).
How to cook fern with other products? Unusual snacks are obtained from pork, beef or chicken liver with fern. When cooking fish or meat (from pork, beef or poultry) dishes, it is put in about 5 minutes before the fish or meat is ready.
How to cook fresh fern? As for salting, fresh fern is used for food only when its shoots are still very young and the leaves have not opened. Before adding to any dish, the fern is boiled in slightly salted water, then it is drained, and the fern is cut into pieces of the required size. After which it is used in the same way as a salted and then soaked product.