Lovage is a high perennial aromatic plant with dark green leaves and greenish-yellow flowers. Its greens are commonly used to add flavor to various dishes. Especially, lovage, like seasoning, is good in salads. This is a great addition to giving a bright touch to your favorite soups, especially those that contain potatoes, peas, beans or lentils. It adds a new flavor to stews, grilled vegetables, and all seafood dishes. Adding lovage to vegetables with a weak taste - such as, for example, zucchini - enlivens it, the taste of the vegetable becomes more saturated.
- The leaves are very reminiscent of celery. I want to give some tips on using this spicy plant as a seasoning. The leaves of lovage are somewhat coarse, and the stems and petioles are fibrous. Therefore, they should be minced more finely before adding to dishes or serving than ordinary greens.
The roots and seeds of lovage are also used in cooking. Seeds are added to flavor various baked goods, crackers, cookies. Add them to marinades and pickles. Lovage capers are just delicious! Finely chopped lovage roots as well as leaves are added to soups and salads. For the same purpose, you can use dried root. And the energy drink from the root( 1 teaspoon of fresh or dried lovage root per glass of boiling water) in the morning guarantees you freshness and energy for the whole day.
And now let's get acquainted with recipes with lovage. They are few. Basically, it's salads. But this is the most popular. Lovage, like seasoning, makes them original.
↑ to the contents ↑Cucumber, carrot with apple and lovage salad
H cucumbers, carrots, apples, mixed with chopped lovage. Salad salad with sour cream, sugar, salt.
Ingredients( for 4 servings):
- cucumber - 2 pcs.,
- carrots - 2 pcs.,
- apple - 2 pcs.,
- crushed lovage - 1 tbsp.spoon,
- sour cream - 4 tbsp.spoons,
- sugar - 1 tsp,
- salt - to taste.
Salad with lovage, cauliflower, zucchini
Finely chopped fresh cauliflower, young diced zucchini, sprinkled with sugar, add chopped lovage, mix. Served with mayonnaise.
Ingredients( for 4 servings):
- fresh cauliflower - 300 g,
- young squash - 200 g,
- crushed chowder - 2 tbsp. Spoons,
- sugar - 1 tbsp. Spoon,
- mayonnaise - 3-4 tbsp.spoons.
Salad of lovage, spinach, sorrel
Spinach, sorrel, cut into strips. Green onions, lovage grind. Sour cream salt, we fill it with greens. It is possible to decorate with rings of early radish.
Ingredients:
- spinach - 100 g,
- sorrel - 10 0 g,
- chopped green onions - 100 g,
- chopped crushed - 1 tbsp.spoon,
- sour cream - 4 tbsp.spoons,
- salt - to taste.
Vitamin salad
Largely grate carrots and kohlrabi. Apples are better to cut into long strips. Green onion feathers, lovage finely chopped. Salad highlight - cut into small segments - peaches or apricots, pears or compote apples. Put everything in one bowl. Add sugar, compote syrup, sour cream, salt. Stir carefully so that the slices of canned fruit remain intact. When serving, decorate with leaves of lettuce.
Ingredients:
- kohlrabi - 200 g,
- carrots - 150 g,
- green onions - 50 g,
- finely chopped - 2-3 tbsp.spoons,
- apples - 250 g,
- fruits from canned compote - 150 g,
- green salad leaves - 1-2 leaves,
- sour cream - 150 g,
- sugar - 1 tbsp.spoon,
- salt - to taste.
Lovage sauerkraut salad
This is a very simple salad. But, like any seasoning, lovage makes it original. Sprinkle cabbage with dried chopped leaves of lovage. Season with vegetable oil.
Ingredients:
- sauerkraut - 300 g,
- dried lovage - 1-1.5 st.spoons,
- vegetable oil - to taste.
Candied lovage roots
Dug out roots washed. To scrape the skin, you can wash them with a metal washcloth, and you can scrape them with a knife or peel. Then cut the roots across the roundels - not very thin, but not large. Pour boiling water to lovage was slightly covered with water and cook for 10 minutes over low heat. In the process of boiling water change two times. Properly boiled roots become light at the end of cooking. Water is drained. Prepare sugar syrup in advance( 2 cups of sugar for 0.5 cups of water).In boiling sugar syrup gently lower the boiled lovage roots. Boil until they become transparent. Carefully remove the skimmer, spread out on parchment paper You can sprinkle with powdered sugar. Dry in a cool place. Store in a closed glass container. Or eat right away.
