Do you remember our dandelion coffee recipe? We suggested using dandelion coffee waste for other recipes. Here is an example of how you can use them to bake coffee cupcakes. We also recommend adding wild blackberries or other types of berries, for example, wild blueberries.
Category: Dandelion
Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) root is one of the many wild components that can be used to make surrogate coffee. In times where real coffee was scarce blends of various roasted roots and nuts were used as a coffee substitute. We have come full circle since nowdays these types of coffees are sold in biological shops as a hipster product rather than a poor mans coffee. To add something extra to this coffee, we used hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) seeds which have a resemblence to cardemom.
In this recipe, we used Chicken of the woods (Laetiporus Murill) as the star of a Vietnamese Bahn mi. Bahn mi is a French-inspired sandwich made of baguette-style bread usually with pickled carrot and daikon radish, mayonnaise, and meat, tofu, or seafood. As a wild garnish, we used dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) and garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata). For more information about Chicken of the woods check our Chicken of the woods nuggets recipe.