Ground elder rostis – the saviours of gardener’s sanity? Well, maybe. For many gardeners, ground elder is the bane of their lives. A once common plant in the vegetable garden, ground elder has fallen out of favour and is now regarded as a pest due to its rapid growth and difficulty to remove. Well instead of trying to get rid of it, eat it!
Ingredients
- 500g potatoes
- 60g ground elder
- 1 large onion
- 3 tbsp of plain flour
- 1 egg
- Salt & pepper
How to make ground elder rostis
- Chop the onion, sauté and leave to cool
- Grate the potato into a sieve or tea towel and squeeze out the liquid
- Chop the ground elder
- Combine the ground elder, potato and onion
- Sprinkle on the flour
- Lightly beat the egg and add to the mixture
- Season and mix well
- Divide the mixture into 12 and flatten to form a disc about 1cm thick
- Fry until golden on both sides
Check out more of our wild food recipes such as these nettle spanakoppites and ramson and chickpea samosas.
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thank you for that i will try these as soon as i can getbsome ground elder do you do a recipe book we can buy from you
Hi Tony, we don’t have a recipe book but if you go to our blog here http://www.jackravenbushcraft.co.uk/blog/ and click on ‘Wild Food Recipes’ down the rigt hand side, you’ll find plenty more.