Edible species of ferns are very popular in the European part of Russia, as well as in China and Korea. Many delicious dishes are prepared from them.
Fern, the recipe of which with potatoes and meat we will give in this article, most often belongs to the species ostrich or bracken. Having tried this product once, you can safely include it in your daily menu.
Fried fern. Meat recipe
Take four hundred grams of good beef tenderloin. Its freshness can be determined by pressing on the meat with your finger - the dent should quickly crack down. If you want to cook just such a fern, the recipe requires about two hundred grams - this is one standard pack. In addition, you will need four tablespoons of vegetable oil, a mixture of your favorite spices (paprika, red pepper and mustard seed go well with this dish), a couple of cloves of garlic and salt to taste. Remember, if you cook fern with meat in this way - the recipe is designed for four servings.
For the first time, you do not need to cook a large amount, because the taste of the dish is specific, and you need to get used to it. The fern, the recipe of which is given here, is easiest to cook by buying green raw stems in a vacuum package. This product is often found in the Chinese cooking department or where spices and seasonings for
Korean cuisine are sold
. It is ideal for making this hot appetizer. Cut the beef into small oblong cubes, then beat each of them, fry in vegetable (sunflower or
corn) oil. Rinse the fern, cut into strips up to four centimeters long. Do not overcook the meat - after you have beaten it, it cooks much faster, so you need to ensure that it does not become dry and hard. It will take about five to seven minutes, after this time, put the prepared fern in the pan, add spices.
Simmer this mixture under the lid for up to ten minutes. You can put crushed fresh garlic in the finished dish, sprinkle
with sesame seeds and herbs before serving.
Braised fern. Potato recipe
For this hearty meal, take half a kilogram of potatoes. It is advisable to pick up tubers of a variety that becomes friable during the preparation process. It will take two hundred and fifty grams of salty fern, vegetable oil, fat sour cream, black pepper. Potatoes need to be cut into cubes, straws or cubes. Soak the fern in cold water twenty-four hours before you cook. After this, the product must be rinsed, squeezed, sorted, cut. Prepared fern is placed in a hot oil, fried for five minutes. Add the potatoes and stew for another fifteen minutes. Then you need to pour sour cream or cream into the pan (the amount depends on the desired fat content of the dish, approximately 50-100 grams) and cook another fifteen minutes. Serve the dish is better hot. You can also cook fern at the same time as meat and potatoes, you can add other vegetables to the dish, such as sweet peppers, carrots, onions.