Broadleaf Plantain - Harvesting & Cooking The Flowering Shoots | FORAGE & FEAST - Plantago Major
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Broadleaf Plantain (plantago major) is one of the most common edible backyard weeds that has been used for centuries for its medicinal properties. There are many broadleaf plantain recipes out there, but the simple ones are the best. The flowering shoots of broadleaf plantain are one of the tastiest parts of the plant. If you are looking for a way to control broadleaf plantain weeds on your property, learn how to cook broad leaf plantain in this video!
The entire plant is edible - roots, leaves, flower stalks and fresh flower shoots. There are many edible backyard plants, and you probably have broadleaf plantain growing in your yard. Harvesting and cooking the flowering shoots of broadleaf plantain is easy. The young and tender flower shoots of this weed are a delicious, healthy food that you can forage in an urban setting. The flavour is similar to ostrich fern fiddleheads, and asparagus. Delicious and nutritious!
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i was told by a fellow a long time ago that eating the flower each day will lower the amount the black flies and skitters will want to eat you. lol
Sound advice!! Even if its a myth, I'm gonna do it!!
Even if it doesn't reduce the flies frequency it's anti inflammatory properties will reduce the bite.
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Most definitely!
I know that if you chew a leaf and use it as a dressing for a hornet sting, it will change your life. I had a hornet come up out of the ground, land in my shoe, and sting me while I was weed-eating one day, and I happened to be in a patch of plantain, so I did the Euell Gibbons thing, and the burn went away before the spit dried. I was amazed. Shooketh, even.
I have a timber garden bed filled with heavy soil from when the excavator dug down 5 feet deep to repair sewage pipes. Recently I successfully used broadleaf plantain growing in a large pot for a bite. Seeing how it tolerates the clay soil, I will try and plant it in this so far unused bed. By the way, I love your cutlery. I’m in Melbourne, Australia and although 76, only started with edible and medicinal weeds in the last 7 or so years. I wish I had discovered them earlier.
It's clay here too and they LOVE it!
Not only is the young seeds shoots are good. But when they go to seed their really yummy. Pick the seeds off the stem, put them in a pan with butter and salt and a little garlic (about a pinch). I love them just to eat or on my salad. They taste like nuts.
that's a great tip, i'll try it!
Just to be clear- you’re talking about eating the shoots after they go to seed, or the seeds themselves? Because I think it would take a LOT of seeds to make a meal. 😂
Do you pick the seed pods when they are green or when they have turned brown?
Green seeds are the way to go
Dandelions are delicious and healthy. Clover is good for bees and help to add nitrogen to soil. Broadleaf plantain is edible and delicious. We apply weed killers, fertilizers so we can keep useless grass and kill useful plants that we call weeds. Its estimated that we have over 50,000 edibles plants but we only eat 500.
Grow food, not lawns. That’s our motto. No chemicals here.
Please give us your recipe for using dandelions. I have found them very bitter.
@@sarahstrong7174u gotta pick em early
@@DONTHAWONN Thankyou.
YEAH!! you gotta pick them B4 the flower buds start to open, preferably as soon as they appear out of the ground, EARLY in the spring!!
Garlic makes everything taste better. :)
Or garlic plus fresh ginger and add to stir fry!
Our clay soil yd is full of plaintain.
@@cherimolina2121ooh! That does sound good.
@@MySliceOfHeavenoutdoors don't forget extra butter
The shoots packed with fiber are the main ingredients of metamucil.
They are tasty when prepared in butter or bacon fat. I prepare asparagus the same way.
nasty. have you ever had a meal or even a side dish without putting dead animals in it?
@@catkin-z8g have you ever respected another person? Clearly not soyboy
@@catkin-z8g you’re joking, right …
@@chocobo6400 this reply made me gawk in awe
@@catkin-z8g I am pretty sure they have had at least a salad before! Or a grilled-cheese sandwich!
My grandma would put them in with pickles when canning. They reminded me of little pickled asparagus.
I let it grow in my backdoor flowerbed for its healing/poultice use and for tea, but never knew that you could eat the young seed stalks. It also grows wild in areas of my front and back yards! Will be trying this tomorrow! (My wife just considers it a weed - glad she does not do any outside yard work!)
What parts do you make the tea out of??
@@kristibemus2110 -Dry the leaves and steep them in hot water.
Wow, I didn't even know you could eat any part of that plant. I'll definitely have to try it, thank you for teaching me something new
Best tasting plant on my property , a great addition to any salad .
I normally pick it to feed to my tortoise, haven't thought about eating plantain myself, good to know that it's a good green for me as well as the tort!
Love this plant for insect bites and my mom used to spread the seeds to stop poison ivy from spreading onto our lawn, didn’t know it was edible until now thanks Dave another “weed” to add to my grow collection
Learned about how edible this plant is a while back. Seeing how many are in my back yard was so surprising as well! May have to try cooking these sometime. Thanks for the video!
A friend of mine just posted tonight that these were edible. I never knew. I came to UA-cam to find recipes. Yours sounds good. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you! An abundant blessing just ouside my door. Just made this -- delicious! Thanks, Creator!! - and Wilderstead :)
Surprising the food that is all around us and as long as you know what you are doing, you should never go hungry in the woods. If it's good for me, I am down with it, cheers Alan
They are so tasty too. And super easy to identify. Cheers Alan!
Herbs are so high in nutrients that it requires only a small amount to satisfy the appetite.
we used to put leaves of this plant on wounds to stop blood. works really well. sort of red neck bandaid :)
When he started eating them it made me hungry!!😂😂
Looks good! I know what we're having as a side dish tonight. Thanks. Take care - Marcie
Yum! Let us know how you like them!
Dave, I have these things all over my yard I'm going to have to try them out
Awesome Donnie! Be sure to harvest only the very young, tender shoots. They should pull off the plant without much effort at all. The larger shoots are very tough and can be a little bitter.
Thank you for making this video. We have a plot we allow to be semi wild. Lots of broadleaf and nawwor leaf plantain.
Awesome! Enjoy the tasty treats!
Nice, I never liked the leaves but didn't think about the young flower stalk, I'll have to try it.
Very good for infection in cuts . Put young clean leaves on are and it will draw out the infection. Way back Indians would push it into arrow or bullet wounds. Very important plant
I love plantain but I’ve never heard of eating the flowering parts. Will try it though!!
Its the best tasting part .
How do you normally prepare the leaves?
I had no idea you could eat broadleaf plaintain...and its flowering shoots! I see these all the time...thanks for the heads up on this! Hope summer is rocking!
So tasty! They take quite a few for a decent size side dish for a few folks, but they are very much worth the effort!
Plantain is one of the very useful plants that I made sure my kids know about. I like to add the leaves to my omelets and I also use them dried out for tea.
Really good cooked in a little bacon grease
I've harvester the leaves for medicinal, but I've noticed so many of these flowering shoots will try it today🤗
Thanks! I was looking up "Plaintain tea" and came across your video. Glad I watched.
Is plantain tea good?
@@chasebutler2665 i haven't tried it. I tries the shoots and don't like them but they aren't horrible.
@@chasebutler2665 birch leaf tea is real good. haven't tried plantain yet in tea but it tastes good in a salad.
Thanks for your video....after watching it, I went for the first time to pick shoots and cook them. I enjoyed and will do it again this week.
I didnt know how this little green weed could be called a plantain... until I got me a Super Dwarf Banana Tree.
Bananas are just giant forms of this weed with juicier seed pods lol
P.S. this weed makes up about a quarter of my lawn... the groundhog and rabbits keep it down so I dont even have to mow... plus if the apocalypse hits its a carpet of spinach to eat with roast Groundhog!
My homestead "lawn" is mostly plantain also.
Plantain grown in river side,and transport to dry land by river sand,by water into our yard they grow there .
Thanks for your video and all the information, I have loads of them on my farm and I hopefully will get working on harvesting and producing this edible food.
Best of luck!
Great! Thank you for sharing this information ❤😊😊😊
Wow! I love this video so much, thank you for sharing this information. I had no idea that plantain could be eaten this way. I will be planting plantain in my large yard soon. I want to grow as many medicinal plants as I can . Those shoots look so yummy with the garlic .
Well, I had no idea. My daughter-in-law was over awhile ago with her husband. They brought back a borrowed tiller and her eyes lit up at the grass that needed cutting yesterday. She started picking some kind of non stinging nettle for a tincture and then told me about the plantains. I always thought they were durned dandelions....I guess bekez they hang out with them. Just watched your vid and you know I'm going to try it. Notes in my SHTF diary. Liked and subscribed! You did good Wilderstead. Now on to see what more you got.
Wild foods are a huge part of our food inventory. Hope you enjoy some of the other videos we have in our foraging playlist!
@@Wilderstead Guaranteed and again, super thanks. Been an outdoorsman forever but my botany skills are sorely lacking. Good that I found you!
Thanks for this. Found some in my yard yesterday and following your recipe. I didn’t know it was edible.
I sauteed the shoots last night and it made my kitchen smell delicious. I had it for lunch at work today and all of my coworkers were asking what smelled so good. I also used the leaves to make a pesto (instead of using basil leaves) and tossed it in my pasta with some pieces of pork and sundried tomatoes.
I picked some more shoots tonight in the yard.
Thanks for the video and inspiration!
Been learning as quickly as possible. Made dandelion leaf and flower tea with parsley for my father yesterday. Needed a diuretic. Seems to be working. So scary though. The thought of getting the wrong plant. Just moved up in the Rockies. So much plantain here. Many edibles. Great video 👍👍
Plantain, in my experience, mainly grows among other edible plants like violets and dandelions (and even grass, if you're really hungry.) Wild garlic is actually more similar in appearance to toxic neighbors, but that distinctive garlic odor will protect you.
Damn brother! I 100% have these in my yard. Thanks! Love learning new stuff!
Dude, you are going to LOVE them!!
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Thank you so much! My mother had found information on broadleafs but weren't too sure. Thanks to your video, now I know how to harvest and prepare them! It turns out my mother has a decent bunch of them growing by the water canal we use to help keep the rain from drowning the garden. We tried a few for the first time and hey! Pretty good!
You are so welcome!
@@Wilderstead News! My mother and I discovered a way to prepare the longer chutes! Since the larger ones provide bigger harvests she decided to pick those instead, we only have about 5 of the bushes so it's more efficient that way. Cooking them in a similar manner with water, salt, and chicken flavoring all in a frying pan, they come out tasting like green beans! You just have to avoid chewing the stems, as when they're cooked they're like sticks. We learned you can eat them like corn on the cob, and they're just as tasty as the more tender chutes!
I've eaten the leaves, but never the flowers, that sounds good!
I've also heard you can pop the seeds off the older ones and toast them in a hot skillet. I guess you use them like toasted nuts / sesame seeds. I haven't tried it, but it's on my to-do list ;)
Indeed! They are tedious to gather though. Something we will definitely do a video on if we are able to gather enough of them.
@@Wilderstead The seeds do pop right off the flower when ripe enough (I used to play with them as a kid as I lay in the grass daydreaming....but anyways)
And I'm going to check my plantain supply this weekend and see if I have tender flowers. I noticed a lot were nearing seed the other day when I was out
What a great video. Thank you for sharing this.
Hug from UK.
Good info. My clover patch is busting out with tons of plantain right now, currently showing a lot of flowering.
Great to see you again. That looks like a delicious green.Hope to see you more often. Hi to Amanda ATB Paul
Been a super busy summer for us. Hopefully we can start getting back into the swing of things with videos. Cheers Paul!
Yummy! I’ll remember this when shtf
Yummm!!! Looks so delicious! We have em all over here and I never knew they were edible, thank you!
Very tasty!
I'll have to try these. I enjoy the early spring cattail male pollen spikes boiled and with salted butter, but will try this. This plant is everywhere around here. I have also heard that the developed seeds can be ground and made into something like peanut butter, but I cannot verify this.
NEAT! Broad leaf plantain grows in the shade in my yard, while narrow leaved plantain grows in the full sun areas. I'm on deep sandplain so that probably explains it. I will try cooking up some flower spikes next summer. Thanks.
This year I cannot get any greens to grow but all of my yards are thick with plantain, so i am going to feast!
Enjoy!
Awesome! I just walked out my door to harvest some. Thinking about pickling some, too. Thanks for the inspiration!
"Pickling some" Great idea ! Thanks.
I'm just going to stick some in my dill pickle jar. So easy.
So interesting! Thanks! My raised bed has so many plantain right now because it was in my compost. I've been trying to come up with things to do with it as I weed it out. Looks like I'll have to leave a few and let them flower. I don't want to eat the ones in my lawn- too many wandering neighborhood dogs!
J Wright enjoy!! They are very tasty. Especially if you manage to get a nice big pile of them to fry up!
❤❤🎉 good information
Very cool thanks guys 😀✌
These must grow in Alaska too. They seem to grow just about anywhere!
Beautiful video and productive lawns.Thanks for sharing your world with us.Stay connected and I'm looking forward to watch more of your videos.👍👍
Thanks!
If you pull the larger ribs out of the larger leaves you can use a kale chip recipe to make plantain chips, very tasty!
TY for sharing 🙂
Good video and good info. We have lots of plantain here in this neck of the woods.Thanks for sharing. Glenn & Maureen
Thanks folks, they sure are tasty little treats!!
What a beautiful, relaxing video. Thank you
Thank you 👏 👏👏🙏
I transplanted some in my garden and they are spreading thank goodness!!
Oh, they’ll spread alright!
Never heard of transplanting the things. Ha!
thank you, first visit, love the rebar stove
Thanks for sharing this video sir. I do have these in my yard. I plan to include them in one of my steamed mixed veggie meals.
Nice bowl
Thanks Dave. Definitely going to try this. We have it all over the place here.
You guys are gonna love em Jay!!
@@Wilderstead I did a quick look around when heading to clean a cabin and they all look too far gone. Hopefully I can find some fresh ones.
Yank a few of the spent shoots off some of the plants. They just might put new ones out!
@@Wilderstead Oh yeah, good call. I'll try it.
Great information Dave. It definitely sounds like a pioneer species of plant. Helping to condition soil.
I bet they'd even grow in the desert!! They aren't a picky plant at all. Cheers Jim!
@@Wilderstead I believe you're right, and the best part is, they help break up compacted soil.
@@ourselfreliantlife You're right, they do break up soil nicely. They grow in the toughest parts of my yard, Jim. I wonder if they grow easily from seed? I could send you some! I'll keep my eye out for a dry one that's "ready"
Woah. There's lot of these plant in our backyard. We just didn't know that it's edible. M gonna try following this video.
Pnw here..there all over...
Thanks!
I’m excited that this can be eaten. I have lots of narrow leaf plantain here in the Houston Tx area
Very nice video. Beautiful bowl too.
Hi I am new to foraging and your channel. I am so excited to learn about new wild edible plants. Looking forward to foraging this year.
Welcome to the Wilderstead, Patricia!
Wow thank you! :)
I gotta try that. I have bunch coming up this year. Last place I lived I had loads of the other plantain all over. Here I have the broadleaf and didn't know much about it .
Great vid !
Mmmmm looks good
Yummy!
Thanks to your video, I now know the difference between Plantain and Dock. Both grow in my yard btw. I've never heard it called white mans feet, and I'm in the USA in Pa. If I can find some of these before they get too old, I'll try some of them.
They are quite tasty!
Will definitely try this. 👍
James McLean it’s really tasty James!
This a plant with a lot of healing properties. Not only the flowers but the leaves. Info is all over the internet.
It sure is!
Thank you! I just found a large patch of plantain behind my house here in GA and can't wait for them to send up shoots. May try to eat the smaller leaves in the meantime.
Excellent! Enjoy!
@@Wilderstead Quick question, just realized some have dried shoots. Will they produce more this year? I am cooking up some of the smaller leaves now but was hoping to try the green seed shoots too.
They will definitely produce more shoots as the season progresses. And harvesting the young shoots will make the plants produce more too
@@Wilderstead Thank you! and I just ate some young shoots (steamed then mixed with pasta salad). They were pretty good. Your video was very helpful.
I will try that.
Top!
I'm going to try this! There's loads around me😊
Hope you enjoy!
Thank you.
That's so cool.
I use the leave to treat mosquito bites but haven’t eat it yet. Maybe I have to eating it. It seems delicious. Thanks for sharing it.
That's a similar thing I do with fresh stinging nettle. It's also deeeelicious.👍
I’m looking for nettle, supposed to be a natural morphine. I have a spinal disease that’s chronic pain. I don’t take prescription drugs so I’m relying on Mother Nature..
@@Jennifer-wz9lb it grows along rivers often with jewelweed which happens to be an antidote to the stinging pain
new subscriber here. love this content. thank you
Welcome to the Wilderstead!
Yummm!
So good!
😊thanks
No problem 😊
Wonderful
Great video! Very interesting. Well, walk out in our front yard and find a high altitude semi desert environment and there’s not much in the way native plants that you can eat.
Was telling my 8 year ols aboutbusing plantain for insect bites and came across this! We immediately walked around the yard and oicked a cup of flowers to try and cook up!
Did you enjoy it? My 8 year old and I did the same but found them to be extremely bitter. Wondering if it's just us.
I had a friend who harvested the young leaves to add to her next batch of kimchi.
Awesome
That looked tasty. I knew they were edible and medicinal but thought it was only the leaves.
We ate these quite often last summer. I think we will try pickling some next summer. They are a tasty treat for sure!
Thank you!! Another wild edible to add to my list, now I just have to keep my dogs from peeing on them lol. I love your videos
Just put them on my list also but don't worry about the dogs just wash em off good.
Is there a certain time of year they are best to harvest? I harvested mine and tried them and they were very bitter.
They have to be harvested when the shoots are very young and tender.
@@Wilderstead I harvested this week, some were older I didn't harvest those, but some were younger snapped easily and tender but still bitter I was just wondering if you have any experience with this and maybe it is a time of year thing? or have you eaten them this time of year? Sorry to bug I just don't want to right them off without a fair chance. Maybe I will try them earlier in the year next time. By the way I love your channel, not just entertaining but very educational.
We harvest them all summer long. Haven’t noticed a particular bitterness to them though.
Very interesting and informative. Thank you. Looks tasty. Asparagus doesn't grow for me. Now, where can I get the plant and/or seed to plant in my yard?
Woow I will like to try ...
Great vid and info!! New sub here!!
Thank you, was looking for something to make Quiche with instead of spinach and or Asparagus...
You are welcome 😊
Thankyou
I've often wondered how to enjoy these plants.
I preferentially weed for this plant, along with Creeping Charlie and other edibles.