As you know, I am passionate about cooking with wild plants: I like to rediscover the knowledge of our grandmothers in this area. I remember our picking dandelions for salads and gourmet jellies, or linden for comforting infusions.
Since I trained in this science, and I learned to use poppy flower, daisy buds, elderflower, mimosa, acacia or lilac for gourmet preparations with medicinal properties: the poppy is perfect to fight against insomnia, elderberry helps fight winter ailments and the flu virus, mimosa is antispasmodic, daisies are diuretic and expectorant...
The shy violet is no exception to the rule!
It is a plant whose flowers and leaves can be used. The flowers are used to make sweets such as violet syrup, crystallized violets or to prepare an infusion with expectorant properties, very useful in case of bronchitis or severe colds. The leaves, on the other hand, relieve headaches. They are also eaten in salads.
Of course, as with any picking, we don't pick just anything!
So you won't let the children do the picking, you will refrain from using flowers from the florist, because they are treated, and you will avoid polluted places...
These were collected in my garden, near the fig trees, away from the passage of wild animals.
Pregnant women and young children should refrain from consuming these plants.
1 - Ingrédients for 2 persons :
1 bunch of violets with leaves
2 chicory
1 avocado
150 g of bacon
150 g walnut kernels
Vinaigrette
2 - Préparation :
Quickly rinse the leaves of the violets to remove impurities and small bugs that could have taken up residence in your picking. You will have taken care to pick only the young leaves which are the most tender.
Wash the endives, cut them into thin strips.
Cut the avocado in 2, remove the pit, then cut the flesh into cubes.
Brown the bacon in a pan to remove the fat.
Prepare the plates: place the endive strips, the avocado, the bacon bits, sprinkle with the leaves and violet flowers. Serve with the vinaigrette that you will make with violet vinegar if you want to enhance the violet aroma.
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