There is a small window of time each summer where I can harvest the purslane that comes up in our yard before Wendy hacks it to bits. Besides putting it on salads I didn't have a good way to eat purslane.
This year I tried juicing it and have been extremely happy with the results. I've been juicing it with strawberry, orange, carrot, beet, celery and ginger. Why do I want to eat this "weed" that grows in everyones yard?
Purslane is -
1. High in omega-3's
2. High in Vitamin A, C, B-complex
3. Anti-oxidants - betalain alkaloids (beta-cyanins and beta-xanthins)
3 comments:
do you eat the stems for purslane or just the leaves?
both stem and leaves. harvest early in the morning before the water is pulled back into the roots.
Excellent.
It was a common salad vegetable in Europe and was brought to the Americas as such... it went out of fashion, then forgotten, but persisted as a "weed."
It deserves to be used because it's supposed to be food. A simple cultural shift and something edible accidentally ends up defined as a weed.
I also must say I find the growth habit of it to be attractive.
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