This simple Hogweed Stem and Chorizo Egg Tart can be cooked up and eaten hot or cold, meaning you can make it whenever you get time, enjoy it as a whole meal with salad or sweet potato chips.
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1 tart to feed 4
Ingredients:
- 3 large free range eggs
- 100ml single cream
- 6 ready-made small tart crusts
- 100g chorizo
- 12 young hogweed stems
- A pinch of mature cheddar for each tart
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Method for our Hogweed Stem and Chorizo Egg Tart:
- In a jug mix your eggs and cream thoroughly and season with salt and pepper
- Pour your mixture in to your tarts
- Slice your chorizo and add to your tarts evenly
- Put 2 hogweed stems in each tart and sprinkle some cheese over the top
- Place in a preheated oven at 200C for 15 minutes
- Remove and enjoy with chickweed or other salad.
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Physical Characteristics of Common Hogweed
Hogweed is a herbaceous perennial or biennial plant that can grow from 50-120cms in height. The main stem rises from a large reddish rhizomatous root, it is striated or ribbed, hollow, and has bristly hairs all over.![](https://totallywilduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/hogweed-stem-225x300.jpg)
Leaves
The leaves can reach a length of 55cms in length, they are very pinnate, hairy, and serrated, they are divided into 3-5 lobed sections, the edges are typically round, unlike giant hogweed which are always extremely pointed.![](https://totallywilduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/hogweed-on-white-plate-from-top-spring-300x225.jpg)
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Flowers
Hogweed has white to pinkish flowers, displayed in large umbels (umbrella looking) up to 25cms, each containing 15-30 individual flowers, these individual flowers contain 5 petals.![](https://totallywilduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/plant-common-hogweed-flowers-with-hand-300x169.jpg)
Seeds
The seeds are winged and flattened contained in pods with rounded edges, up to 1cm long.![](https://totallywilduk.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/hogweed-mature-seeds-300x169.jpg)
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