It is necessary to eat this plant with caution, as the decorative variety is inedible, and the unripe berries can be poisoned. Mature fruits of the physalis usually fall off, so they are collected directly from the ground, then cleaned and stored, using as needed. For those who planted this incredibly beautiful plant, but does not yet know what can be done from physalis, we offer several recipes.
Physalis berry
This subspecies (he is also the physalis of strawberry) is more suitable for sweet dishes, so that we make jam from physalis and lemon.
Ingredients:
- berries without lanterns-boxes - 2 kg;
- lemon with thin skin - 3-4 pcs .;
- sand white domestic sugar - 2 kg.
Preparation
Berries carefully examine, mine, we blanch with boiling water and cut into slices. We fall asleep with sugar and wait for a couple of hours when the juice appears. Lemons are doused with boiling water, cut into small cubes, not forgetting to remove bones. We put the jam on the minimum fire and wait for it to boil. Add the lemon and, stirring from time to time, boil from half an hour to several hours - depends on how thick the product you want to get.
Physalis Vegetable
Much more often they prepare dishes from the physical one of a different kind. Vegetable (it's Mexican) fizalis is similar to taste for green tomatoes, so it is often salted, marinated, used to make sauces or vegetable caviar . Caviar from Physalis is a dish that will help you win more than one bet, because no one can guess the main ingredient of your culinary masterpiece.
Ingredients:
- berries without boxes - 0,7 kg;
- white salad onion - 2 pcs .;
- carrots sweet - 0,2 kg;
- the roots of parsley and parsnip - 2 pcs .;
- salt and spices - to taste;
- oil for frying from sunflower without a smell - 8 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
We clean and very finely shinkuem bulbs, warm up 2 tbsp. spoon the butter and fry the onions until golden. Carrots are cleaned, rubbed on a fine grater and in the same amount of oil, stew until soft. So do with the roots. In the last part of the oil, fry the physically minced goat. We unite all together, season with salt and spices, you can put a little chopped greens and garlic. We warm the caviar so that the tastes are connected, let it cool down and serve.
About other dishes
By the same principle, we prepare sauce from physalis, adding tomato paste or other ingredients. Still from this berries prepare compotes, marmalade, jam, berry fizalis dried and dried, and vegetable is added to soups, vegetable stews. Prepare a salad from Physalis, using it instead of tomatoes.