Wild Mustard garlic leaf and red dead nettle & wild onion dolmas

Name: Wild Mustard garlic leaf and red dead nettle & wild onion dolmas
Yield: 12-16 dolma
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 lbs garlic mustard leaves; 1 cup chopped red dead nettle; 1 Tbsp minced wild garlic; 1/4 cup pine nuts; 1 Tbsp seasame seed oil; 1/4 cup pumpkin seed; 1 cup couscous uncooked; 1 cup quinoa; 8 pitted dates large; 1/4 sliced almonds

Jack 5trange: Kitchen Alchemist @cook_21716110

Philadelphia

#wildfood #different Spring time is my time of the year for foraging. So much is available right outside. You can find many of these ingredients on the side of the road as you are walking down the street. Make sure you know how to identify your wild onion and garlic. When in doubt trust your nose. Should have a strong smell of onion or garlic. Also, wild food has very strong flavors, so minimum use of salts or seasoning. Enjoy what nature already provides.

Jack 5trange: Kitchen Alchemist @cook_21716110

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Ingredients

12-16 dolma

2 lbsgarlic mustard leaves
1 cupchopped red dead nettle
1 Tbspminced wild garlic
1/4 cuppine nuts
1 Tbspseasame seed oil
1/4 cuppumpkin seed
1 cupcouscous uncooked
1 cupquinoa
8pitted dates large
1/4sliced almonds

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Steps

1

Blanch your garlic mustard leaves, I steam mine for about 2 minutes then air dry. The leaves will stick to each other. So I try to arrange them into my leaf wraps while they dry.
2

Blanch for 1 minute your red nettle leaf and flower then chop. I like to use my ulu for this.
3

Chop in your wild onion or garlic and break out the mortar and pestle. Combine your garlic, red dead nettle, pine nuts, sesame seed oil only add salt after you taste your pesto. Seriously! Salt is not important.
4

Oil your pan and quick toast your quinoa, then add your couscous and water. Let it boil.
5

Chop your dates and almonds.
6

Add almonds and dates with 2-4 tbsp of your pesto. I like to cut the sweet with the pesto so I tend to have 4 tbsp of my pesto. Let it sit until it gets room temperature. Should be nice and thick.
7

Build your dolmas!
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Final stages. Brush your favorite oil and add some zest. I like lemon olive oil with some grapefruit zest. Enjoy!

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Jack 5trange: Kitchen Alchemist @cook_21716110

on May 18, 2020 22:44

Philadelphia

I consider myself a Green Kitchen witch and Alchemist. Love is a very powerful tool and must be used in all forms of self-care. The recipes help the soul and that is what will get yourself and your family through troubled times. I teach myself to love myself and to always forgive myself for any mistakes.