How to cook a fern?

It is best to prepare dishes with fresh ferns from May to June, as this period is the season for collecting this wonderful product. At this time, it breaks better, so its stems have not yet become covered with old and stiff fibers. Fern can not only be eaten as salads, snacks or served as a second course with meat, but you can also prepare for winter. The harvest season is very fast, but with the right canning method, it can be stored in a usable form until May next year.

How to cook fern? The easiest way to prepare it is pickling. This does not require the addition of spices, special preparation of containers or the creation of any special conditions for its storage. The technology of canning is simple and reliable. The food is fern "Orlyak". You can buy it on the market. Salting requires salt and water. As containers, it is fashionable to use glass or polyethylene jars. Water is brought to a boil, dissolve in her food (better stone, but not iodized) salt. The solution should turn out to be saturated, so that the addition of a small amount of table salt to it leads to its precipitation. The fern bundle is folded into a spiral and placed in a bowl for storage. Fill with a saturated saline solution (the plant must be completely covered with liquid) and close (no pasteurization or dense closure is required) and store in the refrigerator.

How to cook fern in winter? Salted in a saturated solution of sodium chloride or edible salt, the fern is not suitable for consumption without preliminary soaking. It is so salty that it is impossible. 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. He 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 prepare a fern from a pre-prepared product? There are many recipes. A delicious appetizer snack is prepared with fresh cabbage. You can use white or Beijing. Fern is cut optionally. Cabbage is finely shredded. Slice the onions into half rings. All mixed, season with black pepper (add salt as necessary) and season with mayonnaise (sour cream or vegetable oil). Served as a salad for dinner or snacks with strong drinks. The ratio of ingredients can be changed arbitrarily.

How to prepare a fern with mushrooms? With this combination of products, you can get an unusual soup, a second course, a hot or cold snack. In the soup it is put after potatoes (when it boils). Excellent snacks are obtained from ferns with mushrooms. It fits perfectly with cooked or fried mushrooms (no fern should be added to salted or marinated mushrooms).

How to cook fern with other products? Extraordinary snacks are made from pork, beef or chicken liver with fern. When cooking fish or meat (from pork, beef or poultry) dishes put it for 5 minutes before the readiness of fish or meat.

How to cook fresh fern? As for salting, a fresh fern is used for food only when its shoots are still quite young and the leaves do not open. Before adding to any dish, the fern is boiled in slightly salted water, then it is poured, and the fern is cut into pieces of the required size. After that, it is used in the same way as a salted and then soaked product.