Common Hogweed Recipes

Here you’ll find a list of our favourite Common Hogweed Recipes.

Edible Use:

Root: edible, grated, Lacto fermented, alcohol infusions
Stem: steamed, chopped in salads, battered, fried, on pizzas and omelets
Leaves: soups, dried as a seasoning
Fruit/seeds: as cardamom in cakes, cookies, shortbread, chutney, rice, curries, as a celery salt, infused with alcohol.

Herbal

It’s referenced that the seeds have been used medicinally in the past, being heated in oil and applied to the skin for shingles; also a decoction of the seeds was to be used for aiding a running ear.

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