Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat

Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: cc on September 20, 2023, 15:38

Title: Snake green gaurd cooking help
Post by: cc on September 20, 2023, 15:38

Supposedly edible. Anyone tried cooking them?
Terrible nuisance. Taking over garden need to get something out of them. I can decide then wherever to grow them again next year AND where to grow them.

Title: Re: Snake green gaurd cooking help
Post by: mumofstig on September 20, 2023, 17:33

You can only eat them when they're young, like a cucumber, after that they turn bitter and tough to eat. I tried it once and never did again  ::)

Title: Re: Snake green gaurd cooking help
Post by: whitehill1 on September 21, 2023, 10:04

I eat them as matured like courgette. Scrape the skin with a rub of salt, dice while removing any seeds that are hard and pan fry with oil and then spice it up. Yummm

Title: Re: Snake green gaurd cooking help
Post by: cc on October 10, 2023, 11:11

Quote from: whitehill1 on September 21, 2023, 10:04

I eat them as matured like courgette. Scrape the skin with a rub of salt, dice while removing any seeds that are hard and pan fry with oil and then spice it up. Yummm

As in pick them large? Courgette size.
I picked them about 3" long. Fried nothing else still a touch bitter and relatively tasteless.
I was going to add spice later.
What spices would you advise.
And again what length would you advise?
Next year I will have to find a more appropriate place to grow them...like the neighbours garden!
Do they grow happily grow along the ground?

Thanks

Title: Re: Snake green gaurd cooking help
Post by: cc on October 12, 2023, 13:15

Had them fried with chorizo and part dehydrated tomatoes this morning. Lots of spices. Getting there flavour wise.