Sometimes from the simplest things that we often do not pay attention to, you can prepare an original, tasty and healthy dish. So, from an ordinary weed, known to everyone as a dandelion, you can cook homemade jam to taste, color and aroma, not much different from real honey.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
For the preparation of dandelion honey, you should pick only the flowers with the sepals (although only yellow petals are suitable, without the green part), you will not need the stems and leaves of the plant. Collect dandelion flowers for the preparation of honey, should be away from highways, places of industrial dumping, in the city, etc.
To collect raw materials, it is better to get out of the city, where flowers grow in more environmentally friendly conditions.
You can cook dandelion honey only from yellow petals, completely removing the green part located around - sepals. In this case, the flowers just need to be washed under running water, soaking is not necessary, as they will not give bitterness.
Important! By autumn, up to 40% of inulin, a natural prebiotic, accumulates in the root of the dandelion. Dried root medicines are used for improve digestion and as a choleretic agent that heals the liver.
Dandelion Honey Harvest Recipe
Below are two popular and simple recipes for goodies. Both methods are distinguished by the simplicity of preparation and the availability of ingredients.
Classic recipe
2 cans of 0.5 l1 hour
dandelion flowers without stems
300 pcs
Nutritional value per 100 g:
Rinse the collected flowers several times, add water, you can at night, but better - for a day. This measure will help to clean the raw materials, as well as remove excess bitterness. Cover the heads of dandelions with a plate so that they do not float. Water during this time (per night or day) needs to be changed 2-3 times.
Before cooking, rinse the dandelions again, put in a saucepan, pour water. Bring to a boil over low heat, then reduce the heat to a minimum and cook for another 15 minutes. Remove the pan with contents from the stove, let cool completely.
Using gauze, squeeze the liquid from the cooled mass into a pan.
Add sugar there, squeeze lemon juice. You can add the juice of half a lemon and 1/3 tsp. citric acid.
Put the pan on a small fire, cook for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
After the specified time, remove from heat, pour into pre-sterilized jars, tighten with lids.
Rinse the collected flowers several times, add water, you can at night, but better - for a day. This measure will help to clean the raw materials, as well as remove excess bitterness. Cover the heads of dandelions with a plate so that they do not float. Water during this time (per night or day) needs to be changed 2-3 times.
Before cooking, rinse the dandelions again, put in a saucepan, pour water. Bring to a boil over low heat, then reduce the heat to a minimum and cook for another 15 minutes. Remove the pan with contents from the stove, let cool completely.
Using gauze, squeeze the liquid from the cooled mass into a pan.
Add sugar there, squeeze lemon juice. You can add the juice of half a lemon and 1/3 tsp. citric acid.
Put the pan on a small fire, cook for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
After the specified time, remove from heat, pour into pre-sterilized jars, tighten with lids.Video recipe
Classic Recipe Video Recipe: Classic Recipe
Did you know? Dandelion is a valuable honey plant, although the taste of natural honey from this plant is harsh, bitter and unpleasant.
With lemon and orange
1 can of 0.7 L 1 hour 15 min
dandelion heads
200 pcs.
Nutritional value per 100 g:
Rinse flowers, soak overnight with water. During soaking, change 1-2 times water.
Rinse the heads again before cooking.
Cut lemon and orange into small cubes.
Boil the water, place the dandelion heads and chopped citruses in it. Boil on the smallest fire, so that the mass boils with the least intensity.
After 15-20 minutes, remove the contents of the pan from the heat, allow to cool, and then squeeze the resulting broth well into a container for further cooking.
Pour 500 g of granulated sugar into squeezed broth, bring to a boil over low heat, then cook for another 20-30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Sterilize jars, pour the finished product into them, close with sterilized lids.
Rinse flowers, soak overnight with water. During soaking, change 1-2 times water.
Rinse the heads again before cooking.
Cut lemon and orange into small cubes.
Boil the water, place the dandelion heads and chopped citruses in it. Boil on the smallest fire, so that the mass boils with the least intensity.
After 15-20 minutes, remove the contents of the pan from the heat, allow to cool, and then squeeze the resulting broth well into a container for further cooking.
Pour 500 g of granulated sugar into squeezed broth, bring to a boil over low heat, then cook for another 20-30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Sterilize jars, pour the finished product into them, close with sterilized lids.Video recipe
With lemon and orange Video recipe: With lemon and orange
Important! You can sterilize the jars in the microwave. To do this, just place several cans in the oven, pour a little water (20-30 ml) into each container and turn on the microwave at 75-80% power for 2 minutes.
Features of the use of honey from dandelions
Any, even the most useful product, under certain conditions, can harm the body. We will tell in more detail about the benefits of dandelion honey and contraindications to its use.
Benefit
- The benefits of dandelion honey are its following properties:
- has a beneficial effect on blood vessels, thereby contributing to the normalization of pressure;
- due to the high content of vitamins, trace elements and other beneficial substances in the composition, it can be used to restore the body after an illness, to strengthen the immune system;
- helps to cleanse the urinary canals, thereby preventing the formation of stones, and therefore the development of urolithiasis;
- has such a wonderful property as cleaning the intestines and blood from toxins;
- has a healing effect on the liver and gall bladder, helping to cope with diseases associated with these organs;
- helps to remove harmful cholesterol from the human body;
- due to the high content of minerals such as magnesium and potassium, dandelion honey helps to normalize the functioning of the heart and blood vessels, thereby reducing the likelihood of developing cardiological diseases;
- the use of honey has a beneficial effect on the state of the central nervous system due to a sufficiently large number of B vitamins in the product;
- it is a mild laxative and choleretic agent, due to which it has long been successfully used in folk medicine;
- suppresses inflammatory processes, which is extremely important during outbreaks of colds and viral infections;
- helps to remove sputum from the lungs;
- reduces pain with joint problems;
- the product found its application in cosmetology, thanks to the anti-aging effect on the skin and hair.
Did you know? Two types of dandelion, Koksagyz and Krymsagyz, were previously grown to produce rubber.
Harm and contraindications
- Despite the many useful properties that dandelion honey has, it also has certain contraindications:
- since a delicious treat is prepared on the basis of sugar, it cannot be consumed in diabetes;
- you should not take such honey and for problems with excess weight;
- is a fairly strong allergen, so people who are allergic, especially to pollen, are better off not using the product. For the same reason, it should not be used for feeding and treating children under three years of age;
- Do not get involved in delicacies for people suffering from diarrhea, as the product can exacerbate the problem;
- to limit the use of honey from dandelions should people with low blood pressure, because this delicacy can lower it even more.
Dandelion is a wild flower that can be found almost everywhere. From this flower you can make a wonderful treat, which, in addition, has an impressive list of healing properties.
