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- Can you put nasturtium on it?
- Which parts of nasturtium can you put in?
- How to make your own caper replacement
- Insertion tips for wrong capers:
- Tips & Tricks
Can you put nasturtium on it?
By inserting, you can not only preserve parts of your nasturtium, but also create special delicacies. You do not need any extraordinary skills or special equipment for this. A normal kitchen equipment and average cooking skills are quite sufficient.
Which parts of nasturtium can you put in?
In principle, you can put all aboveground parts of nasturtium, the leaves are rarely used for it. If you mix the dried and crushed leaves with the same amount of salt, you will get a very spicy herbal salt. From the buds and seeds you can make a caper replacement. The flowers are ideal for pickling in vinegar or oil.
To make a flower vinegar, add some of your nasturtium flowers to a large-mouthed bottle and top it with a mild vinegar until the vinegar completely covers the flowers. Place the bottle in a dark place and shake its vinegar once a day. After four weeks he is ready and can be straightened out.
To make an oil, refill clean flowers into a wide-mouthed bottle and add a tasteless vegetable oil this time. Use a high quality rapeseed or sunflower oil. It must cover the flowers completely so that they do not mold. The oil, however, in contrast to vinegar in a bright place, but is also shaken daily.
How to make your own caper replacement
In the past, nasturtium caper substitutes were only produced for economic reasons. This is a pity, because this seasoning has a very own taste, spicy and slightly spicy, which does not have to shun comparison.
For the production you can use both the unopened buds and the still immature seeds of nasturtium. Both are boiled in a broth of water, vinegar and salt and still hot in a screw jar. Firmly seal this glass, then your false capers will last for a few months.
Insertion tips for wrong capers:
Tips & Tricks
With a self-made flower vinegar you can spice up excellent salads or even make love people an extraordinary gift.
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