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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Borlotti on August 31, 2018, 16:03:00

Title: amaranth
Post by: Borlotti on August 31, 2018, 16:03:00

Have got loads of this on my allotment, havent eaten the leaves yet but looks pretty, and self seeds.

Title: Re: amaranth
Post by: Duke Ellington on September 04, 2018, 18:48:58

In Jamaica it’s called callaloo and it tastes like spinach.

Duke

Title: Re: amaranth
Post by: BarriedaleNick on September 04, 2018, 19:16:52

Slightly different to spinach but not in a major way - cooks down nice with some garlic though (what doesnt!)

Title: Re: amaranth
Post by: ancellsfarmer on September 04, 2018, 20:10:34

Leaves when young and side shoots/leaves add a further ingredient to a salad.Not strikingly flavoursome but has a certain 'bite'.Mine has now reached 5ft high and is flowering, similar to' love lies bleeding'; a relation I think.