Picking and eating lambs quarter: with the only recipe you need
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ค. 2015
- In my view, lambs quarter is, hands down, the number 1 weed to eat, from the garden or out in the wild. In this video, I'm headed out to pick lambs quarter from the homestead, then I'm going to cook some up using the only recipe that anyone needs to know to make lambs quarter delicious.
Lambs quarter shows up in disturbed soils in the late psring and early summer. It's so easy to pick at a young stage. I just pull the whole weed out of the ground and tear off the roots. That's it.
But I don't always pull up the whole lambs quarter plant. When the plant is older, I pinch the growing tips out and just use them, rather than the whole plant. One advantage to pinching those tips is that the lambs quarter branches out and I can come back to the same place and pick them again, over and over. The growing tips of lambs quarter don't snap off, but are easy to pinch off. I pinch them off with my thumb and index finger.
Two distinctive features of lambs quarter are its triangular leaves and the white residue on its growing tips. It gives the younger leaves kind of a slick feel. The white residue feels gritty and wet at the same time. It rubs off easily and is a distinctive feature of lambs quarter. It is part of the lambs quarter plant and does not mean there is something wrong with the plant. It is a hydrophobic coating that sheds water.
It's so easy to cook lambs quarter. I rinse my collected lambs quarter to get off any dirt or insects. The white residue is hydrophobic and helps to keep the lambs quarter from getting wet. Some of it does wash off into the rinse water, but it does not need to be washed off. It is part of the lambs quarter plant.
This entire batch took less than 3 1/2 minutes from start to finish. I just put it into a pan with the water that clings to its leaves, and stir it around over the heat. Sometimes i add a little more water, but nothing else. It cooks down so fast and smells so good. When it's done, I just add some nice salt when I'm ready to eat it and that's it.
So that's the only recipe that anyone needs to know to really enjoy lambs quarter. Otherwise, lambs quarter can be used exactly like spinach or swiss chard. But it is too tasty of a weed to want to hide its great flavor.
Lambs quarter, Chenopodium album, Family Chenopodiaceae (the goosefoot family)
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If your lambs quarter is getting older, check out this video to see if it's still good to eat: th-cam.com/video/uhrrw0OZGRM/w-d-xo.html I hope you are all enjoying some lambs quarter, too! It's one of the great edible weeds!
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Darn it!!!! I have been pulling this evasive weed and composting it ! All the while crying the blues because its so hard to grow greens where i live! 🙃
Why would you not know about medicinal properties in your yard
Good job finally getting this knowledge. Stay safe and well.
You can stir fry the leaves with garlic, onions,salt & some green chilies. It’s really good with rice.
I used to love eating lamb's quarter out at my parent's farm. I would also put it on pizzas, underneath the cheese with the sauce. Good stuff!
Lambsquarters are a great source of nutritious components far exceeding that of spinach. I chop them up and boil them briefly along with kale and purslane (if available). The purslane will make up the Omega 3 that is lacking in LQ. I then put it all in the blender and spice it with curry, sea salt and caraway seeds, then freeze it in zip-lock bags for the winter. With canned tomato puree added, it makes a nutritious soup - and it's all free, organic and needs no gardening space.
That sounds like a great way to cook lambs quarter! It's so versatile. I'm always glad to hear from folks that know the goodness of lambs quarter! It is one of the best greens out there. I freeze a lot of it to use all year long. I hope you find all the lambs quarter you want this summer! : )
I planted both Lamb's Quarters and Giant Lamb's Quarters, and standing Purslane, just to teach the kids, and the kale volunteers already.
Thanks for the recipe I will try it some time.
@@HaphazardHomestead where did you get the seeds
Will it grow in AZ
Just starting to use these. But you can't beat purslain for food value. I will be using both in my "super food"capsules
Thanks to my wife, Sara, I watched this video.
I am looking forward to eating some 'lambs quarter,' soon.
Nicely done ✔👍
You mean ... I'm pulling nutritious FOOD out of the soil and throwing it away?!? SHAME ON ME!!! SERIOUSLY?!? I never knew this was FOOD!!! Thank you very much for the educational info as well as the recipe. DEFinitlely going to put this in my mouth & NOT in the compost can EVER AGAIN. I promise!
Yep ... this is my first time here. Liked and subbed and looking forward to catching up on your prior posts. :-D
If you ever did try your Lambs Quarter, I hope you enjoyed it!
@@HaphazardHomestead same here I see this when I walking the trails behind our home, boy I will definitely cook this lambguater ,Dandelion it's a lot ,delicious my backyard too.Thanks ee.
@@callmegon2152 I have this growing out of control in my garden! I’ve been pulling it and cussing it out! What a dummy! I’m gonna start collecting it and my beans!
if you let it flower and go to seed it also provides a pretty nice grain, similar to quinoa, to which it is related. Can be ground down to make a flour extender.
You are so funny, lady. I either laugh out loud or at least smile every time I watch you. Thx so much for your videos!
I was showing a neighbor around my property and at one of the four gardens that I have out he suddenly exclaimed that "There is Lambs Quarters, do you harvest it?" I told him I had heard about it but had never eaten it. I learned from him and this video that I need to start harvesting and eating it because it's so good! Thanks for the great video!!
I'm glad you have a neighbor that enjoys lambs quarter and knows it well - to help you start enjoying it, too. It's one of the truly great wild greens! I hope you end up enjoying it as much as some of the plants you are growing on purpose!
Thanks for this. I just collected some Lambsquarters for the first time today. I noticed it really smells like spinach. What a great substitute for spinach. Totally free, but at the store $5/lb for spinach!
Congratulations on identifying and trying your Lambs Quarter! I hope you enjoyed it and that it can feed you for many years to come!
Did you know you can eat the seeds raw, use as grain or grind into a flour? It's related to quinoa and is one of the most nutritious plants on earth. Just one plant can yield about 100,000 seeds.
The first harvest of produce to fill Weekly Produce Bags by Community Supported Agriculture. I am adventurous in my food selections so I chose Lamb’s Quarter for one of the leafy greens in my bag. I came to your page to find out what to do with it. 😊Thank you for your help. ❤
Oh my gosh!!! I LOVE YOU! I have never met anyone that appreciates Lamb's Quarters like I do!! So yummy! PLUS! They are a great cover crop! The roots are shallow and easy to pull up if you want to grow something else in it's space.
I learned about LQ about 28 years ago and taught my small children how to harvest and cook them (in the microwave LoL) & eat them with mustard. They loved to show off to their little friends ~ and I loved passing on this delicious green! 😋💜
Your "live testimonial" made me laugh out loud! Funniest thing I've seen on YT in ages! Thanks for being a fun presenter! You made my day and added a subscription!
We always add dandelion greens and lambs quarter to our poke greens.Yum, great country cooking here in the south!
I used to pull them out until!!! 😊
a few years ago I looked up all my weeds and found that most are good eats! now I grow them, semi controlled 😀 less work and free food!
That's the way to do it, for sure. I often wonder what we could harvest to eat just by digging up the soil and then letting weeds come up. I think we could eat pretty well. Enjoy your weeds! ; )
Hi I found a few little lambs quarters today yay!🌿😇💞
A hint of butter or olive oil a d touchbof garlic...yumm!!
I love the way you say,"Emmp. That's sooo good." It immediately makes me feel hungry and that I would like to try it too.😊
The funny part of my experience with Lambsquarters is I have been pulling them out of our pasture for years, and I mean years, as well as from our own backyard, nevering knowing what I was missing. I recently learned about Lambsquarters from a friend who posted a pic of her salad lunch. I quickly had to do some research, for she had me thinking, is she eating parts of lamb?, for the name of the plant threw me off for shes a Vegetarian. LOL The next time I saw her she gave me a bunch of my very own to eat as salad greens. However, not until I watched your video, did I realize that I had these also growing in my own yard, as well as what had been growing in the pasture, for my variety of LQ is the same as yours. Her variety has a purplish pink center. The best part was how easily you explained how to cook them in just water. so, I quickly picked the young ones from the backyard and enjoyed them for dinner. Thanks again for the great information and the recipe.
Just salt huh what a chef I believe how good you say your taste buds like it 🌱🌾
Yum. Lambs quarters is my favourite wild green. In our Canadian climate it's a delicious wild green, available to eat even before I sow my garden seeds. I always graze on it (unwashed and uncooked) in early summer. Thanks for the recipe. I'll give it a try.
I had no idea about all these plants you can eat that is wild. I don't know anything about them but i am going to learn. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom to these plants. I really want to try them. Be blessed...
Celites, used to be on the menu when I was growing up in Paramount Ca.
Just found your channel as I noticed what I thought was Lambs quarter in our yard. I watched your video, picked some and cooked it up, it is so good. I also live in Oregon, grew up in the Salem area and now living in N.E.Oregon. Thank you for opening my eyes to Lambs Quarter.
Thanks for your taste review and Congratulations on becoming a fan of Lamb's Quarter, Laura Pollreisz! You have a lifetime of good eating ahead! :D :D
Mine just came back. YAY!!!!! a handful goes in every recipe I make all summer
You've got a lot of good eating ahead, for sure, Fairy Rose! Thanks for commenting and enjoy your lambsquarter! It's one of the best!
Also, thanks for showing a faster way of harvesting lamb's quarter. I was picking the leaves off, one by one. TOO tedious! 😀
My grandma used to cook it with whole pinto beans , really good food!
Just got a small bit of this today while walking to the market, so I am going to chop it up and put it in my rice with diced bell pepper, onion, and chicken stock
My garden is full of this plant. Excited to cook them.
Lamb's Quarters/Quelites are great, second only to Portulaca/Verdolagas, with refried beans/refritos prepared with garlic/ajo, onion/cebolla, tomatoes/jitomates, and Chiles.
Topped with grated queso fresco, they can't be beat. :)
I was glad to see that you also stir fry those lambs quter w just the water that clings to it, like me. NO grease or fat or anything else. I have been doing just this for a while.
You know how to enjoy lambs quarter at it's finest! :D
The old adage, you learn something every day is TRUE! Thank you! I think I have some in my yard although it might be jewel weed. I need to double check! Thanks for the great information.
Another great video full of great tips.
Thanks! Do you have lambs quarter up in the Far North country?
Nice to see you here Lonni. I'm also curious if Lamb's Quarter grows in Alaska.
@@JesusSaves86AB Yes Lambs quarter does grow in Alaska. I do not believe that it is native to the state but it has been introduced and can now be found here.
@@HaphazardHomestead This was a staple for the Cherokee. Lambs quarter corn stew. You can live off this stuff and it's good for you.. we are so brainwashed and spoiled with food stores today everything is free out in nature and much more nutritionally better for us
Eating it for breakfast as I watch this!
Lamb's quarter is the BEST! Yummmmmm! Great video Haphazard Homestead.
I tried some this year growing in the backyard. It's really good. Next time I'll try your recipe. Just wish I could find a bunch at one time like you have.
I miss your videos! Hope you are doing well!
Thank you for showing me how easy cooking it is! I’ll be harvesting tomorrow or day after and thinking about canning it but my goodness it looks so good! AND so easy!
First time here!
One of my favorites, well that and chickweed. I love to add them to my soups for their added deliciousness.
I have it growing in my veggie garden, and the #1 recipe I make with it is Palak Paneer, which is one of the most requested recipes in my house.
I look forward to my wild crop of volunteer lamb's quarters in the garden every year. I pull them when they are 4-6 inches tall and break off the roots. I leave a few here and there to go to seed. After washing carefully and steaming them, they are so tasty with butter and a splash of white vinegar. Yumm. The only drawback is they are high in oxalates so I can't pig out on them too much.
this is such a great video thank u ...i eat nothing but lambs quorter for two months now ...my new favourite greens
I found some by the road in Cambodia,.... delicious.... will cook it most days if I can... definitely nicer than spinach and most other greens...
I'm going to pick this from my garden today and eat it like spinach with chicken and baked potato.
I live in the eastern southern Appalachia mountains. I’m pleased to learn we have some ‘weeds’ in common. I like how you present your videos. I’m glad I found you. Take care. Ty. 🌱🌿🌾🍃☘️
Just recently found out what those giant stalks in my backyard are and now I'm psyched!
Saute with a little bit of coconut oil/butter, chopped garlic, and a couple drops of oyster sauce (or your favorite sauce). I also toss in at the end of any stir fry.
Yum! Thank you :) In Saskatchewan we get lambsquarters but it doesn't grow as big. not sure where you are, but right now the leaves are about as big as a nickel across, and a little longer than that. As a kid we made a casserole of it at camp but I never learned the recipe. Nice to know it's that easy
Thx now I have the confidence to try them
I hope you enjoy the lambs quarters, e schwarz!
"It's a good thing the Dandelions come first"
Yep. I'm eating dandelions now, in April. But when the Lambs Quarter returns, I'm done, lol. ; )
Haphazard Homestead This rocks👍🏻
i cook it with a little sauteed garlic in the pot, plus a squirt of lemon juice. Pinch of salt. Delicious!
Thank you soo much! I am going to look for Lambsquarter in my yard.
Yea. I get so excited too. When I see it. Now mine is little. I will just wait a couple of weeks. Its funny that I have an area where a grow spinach and lettuce from seeds last year and now lambs quarter and woodsorrel took over. I will soon have a salad of both. I cant wait.
My mother use to pick these and they made delishious greens!
Just watched this for a second time after foraging some lambs quarter. So grateful for your channel!!!
I love your live testimonials on how good the food is ! ❤ Your awesome ! 👌
Ita great in an omelet too! More nutritious and better for you than spinach. You can use it anywhere you would use spinach. Smile and have a blessed day!
High demon with chopped cabbage and onion, and yeah it's so good and so healthy.
I feed it to my pigs. When its about six feet high I start pulling the bottom limbs off. It continues to grow and produce through the summer, gets up to 15 feet high. Produces a lot of biomass. Pigs love it more than corn even.
Thanks for sharing your wild weed tours, and recipes. I’m looking at weeds in a different way now.
I'm glad you are enjoying my weeds, Robin D. Phillips. They are real food for regular people. And there are so many good weeds to eat. I hope you can find some of the really tasty ones, like this lambs quarter, around you!
When my mexicana gf was up we made some, I used evoo and lemon.... So good
I don't know about the best anymore, because after trying sunflower leaves, I'm raving about them! Stir fry up some sunflower buds and leaves. Artichoke similarities...
Hope you are doing great .be blessed an thank you
Thank you for sharing, know what I'm making for lunch!
We love eating Lambs Quarter. We pick it wild when we walk our dog in the fields... Yummm! We will have to try cooking it too. Thank you!
You know what's good, alright! I'm glad you already know this great wild plant. I think you'll enjoy it cooked, too. If you do cook it, I'd appreciate knowing what you think of it, especially since you already enjoy it raw.
I've eaten this and it tastes a lot like spinach. Very tasty.
LA resident here, new subscriber. I think I have some of this in the backyard! Thanks for educating and making these videos!
Follow up- I found some out back and cooked it up just like in the video. Very good!
Thanks for your taste review! And congratulations on your lambs quarter.I'm sure you will figure out other ways to enjoy it, too. Here's to more weeds in your yard, lol. ; )
I have been looking & searching for a channel like this, thank you!!!!
I'm glad you found your way here! I hope you find my future videos worth your time, too!
thanks for the tip to make them branch out!
Our nanny used to make this for us as a treat. Probably one of my favourite greens to eat. In my opinion even better than spinach.
Thanks you made the video fun!😊
Thanks for sharing this recipe for cooking lambs quarters.
Wow, will be looking for some tomorrow.
This is the most informative video I've seen on lambs quarter. I have always know it was edible but haven't tried it before. Now I think I will. Thanks.
growingupgarden Thanks! Let me know what you think of them! Don't over-indulge the first time you try a new weed, though, just in case you have a sensitivity.
Wonderful
When you ferment something you are basically creating a probiotic and extracting all of the beneficials from the plant. As opposed to canning which is a sterilization process which kills all the natural bacteria that lives on the product that you are canning. It is very interesting stuff and I have been learning a lot about it
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of canning, except for tomatoes, pickles, and jam. I do like freezing because it's so quick and keeps the fresh taste and nutrients pretty well. But I do like fermenting some things. I've got a video on fermenting elephant garlic leaves -- they are really good! They develop a deep smoky flavor that isn't in the fresh leaves at all. I'll be putting out videos on fermenting redbud flowers and elm seeds sometime soon, too. The fermentation definitely gives them a deeper, richer flavor. So you've got me excited to try lambs quarter!
I have a year of trying fermenting. I am still learning and I love the taste of tangy after is fermented. I will definitely try to ferment lambsquarter.
Thank you for sharing 👍
I make salad with chickweed, lambsquarters, wild strawberry, wild lettuce, and (seeds taken out) crushed chokecherries. Thank you for sharing how to harvest lambsquarters
That sounds like a really tasty salad! The wild strawberries and chokecherries would really add a nice touch! Enjoy your foraging!
Thanks!
I love your videos. I love lambs quarters. I always knew it as pigweed.
I love this , we call in India Bathua I put some recipes in my channel I love this🌱
I thought you were exaggerating about the flavour, but I think I made the same sounds when I ate it too 😂
super video. and recipe. will try ASAP. THANKS
Just went out, picked some and put on my breakfast muffin sandwich! Really good!
That's the way to do it, Matt Gring, just go get it done! Thanks for adding your comment. It shows how easy it is for anyone to enjoy lambs quarter. Bon appetit! :D
I am growing quinoa in my garden for the first time this year. Now I know what this pesky but amazing look-alike is. Thank you!
I love your channel! Thank you for such an informative video!
I’m happy you cooked the lambs quarter oil free. My skin does so much better being oil free. I just really need to be able to pick out this weed before consuming. I’m always a little leery of eating wild plants. That’s why I like your vids. 😊
Just made it for lunch, very good. Taste a little bit like New Zealand Spinach. Next time I will also add some garlic.
THANKS FOR THE TIPS!
A succinct and informative video. Thanks!
They are higher in Vit. C than oranges. The women of Love Sick Lake Nation, sent them to a lab to be analyzed, along with several others. I read about it in the Love Sick Lake Native Women's Cookbook. Great recipe's.
Thanks, Elizarobin Robinson. It is amazing how many green plants have a lot of vitamin C. It's a shame that so many people struggled to get enough vitamin C in the old days. Enjoy your lambs quarter! : )
This is my first time here and I immediately subscribed. Looking forward to watching more....thanks for sharing this valuable info.
You are right about lambs quarter. It is soooo good!
Glad to know there's some neighboring foragers publishing on youtube, look forward to some more :}
-Henry
TheNorthwestForager Yeah, I was glad to find your channel! Enjoy your lambs quarter and all the other great things the PNW has to offer!
Delightful, informative, concise = perfect! Thanks so much!
When I bought my house. The house was abandoned from previous owner and there was a lot of weed. We couldn't even walk. At that time I didn't know anyvwild edible weeds. So the first year we got rid of them. Next year I stsrted to investigate. I found out that I was dille with wild edibles so I decided ro leave them so I can eat them, my husband still cut the grass. But I have a place where I grow my lambs quarter. Dandellions, palntain, pursline. And some wild. Lettuce. I love your videos your such a nice lady. I wish I have you as a neighbor. So I can learn from you. I watch your videos and I learn that way. I live the way your tech us. Thnak you so much and many blessings to you.
I definitely want to try growing this.
I would try some in the future. Thanks
Great information. Thanks for sharing! And best wishes for a nice fall.
i just picked some labs quarter to identify and eat this afternoon, and then your video came up! You are awesome. Thank you!
It's funny how TH-cam knows what you are interested in, El Ru. I'm glad you enjoyed my video -- and I hope you enjoy your Lambs Quarter, too. It is such great food!
Cute video! I have been looking more into foraging food. I have some of this in my yard. I am going to let it grow some more and try your recipe! Thanks for the video.
Lambs quarters is very good I froze a bunch🕊️💞