Cooked Salicornia or Beach Stars


Rating: 3.17 / 5.00 (6 Votes)


Total time: 45 min

Servings: 4.0 (servings)

Ingredients:






Instructions:

Rinse the vegetables briefly. Bring water to a boil. Put the vegetables into the boiling water and after 4 minutes at the latest, remove them repeatedly and drain them through a sieve. Heat butter in a frying pan and sauté the (finely chopped) shallots until translucent. Turn the al dente vegetables in the butter to the other side and bring to the table.

Shopping and cleaning Salicornia is harvested young. The fleshy, light green to green stems are up to 8 inches long. Longer pieces are woody at the bottom, in which case remove the affected pieces.

Salicornia should be washed quickly, because if the vegetable is left in water too long, it loses its salty pleasant taste.

If kept in a cool place, fresh beach asters will keep for at least a week. Remove the stems and, like salicornia, rinse only briefly. Beach asters can be frozen well. First clean, then blanch briefly (max. 2 min.), drain and carefully rinse briefly under cold running water. Then rub dry with a paper towel or dishcloth. In this way they preserve very nicely their give.

It could not be simpler! It is noticeable that Salicornia or the leaves of the beach asters turn deep green by cooking, and that the shape of the vegetables is well preserved. Do not make too long! It will affect the flavor and color of these tender sea vegetables. Frozen beach aster must be even faster from the boiling

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