How to Get Food From a Sorrel Plant
If you're searching for a new taste in food, something out of the ordinary, look no further than the sorrel plant. If you seek some way to impress your hiking buddies--the sorrel plant can help. If you're bored and looking for something to do, why not eat a sorrel plant? Whatever your reason, the sorrel can provide you with a tasty free treat.
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Learn well how to positively identify a sorrel plant (Rumex acetosella). Sorrel typically grow to be 1 to 2 feet tall, sometimes taller, and produce thick green leaves that sometimes sport arrowhead-like bases. Its flowers, red or purple in color, are tiny and bloom in the middle of summer. Sorrel usually looks like a regular tall, grassy weed.
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Locate a sorrel plant. Sorrel usually grow in areas where you'd expect weeds--in areas that have been used by humans at some point but have since been overgrown. Look for sorrel anywhere in North America or Europe.
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Harvest the sorrel leaves. These can be eaten raw or boiled in a pot of water like any green vegetable. Throw them into a soup or add them to a salad to add flavor.
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Harvest the sorrel flowers. Pop them in your mouth for a raw treat, or boil them and eat.
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Harvest the sorrel stems, which are fleshy and juicy. Again, these can be eaten raw or boiled, and then eaten.
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Tips & Warnings
Don't eat too many sorrel plants raw, at least not at once; they can act as a laxative.
If you aren't sure that you are dealing with a sorrel plant, don't eat any part of it--you don't want to ingest something poisonous or otherwise harmful to your health.
