Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | August 9, 2020

Purslane-A Taste of Hearth Cooking

This is purslane growing in my garden and my next receipt (recipe) to post will be "A Purslain Soup"

This is purslane (Portulaca olerocea) that re-sows itself in my gardens each year.  Since modernly used as a food for pigs, it also has the names pigweed, little hogweed, fatweed and pusley.  It is known to most as just that, a weed.  With the same uses as spinach and lettuce and a good contributer to the diet of Vitamin A, Vitamin C, magnesium, manganese, potassium, iron and calcium; it is actually a vegetable.  Purslane has been cultivated as a vegetable by Europeans since the middle of the 17th century.  My next receipt (recipe) – A Purslain Soup.

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  1. Shaheen Reviews's avatar

    I have purslane in my garden too. Grows by itself 😀

    • hearttohearthcookery's avatar

      Just like mine. Have you tried some in salads?

      • Shaheen Reviews's avatar

        Ohh salads!! How to use?? Directly?? Chopped or sauteed??

  2. hearttohearthcookery's avatar

    It is used just as you would spinach or lettuce raw and as I wrote in my blog, it is a power house of nutrients.


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