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The Best Recipes to Use a Plethora of Parsley
Parsley is a great herb—but what do you do with whole bunches of it? Here are, ahem, a bunch of ideas.
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Cybele
June 12, 2020
One of our favorite family parsley recipes for a side dish is pasta snails from “Simply Nigella.” Snail-shaped pasta, loads of garlic and parsley sautéed in butter and pasta water. The best parts of escargot, minus slimy snails!
FS
May 29, 2020
Parsley is a host plant for the appropriately named parsley worm, which is the caterpillar of a swallowtail butterfly. Parsley gone to seed in its second year is a fine
food source for pollinator insects. Every year I grow parsley from seed to have enough
for me and the animals!
food source for pollinator insects. Every year I grow parsley from seed to have enough
for me and the animals!
Louise V.
April 23, 2020
My wonderful Nana W. used to make Uge, a quick Lebanese egg dish that combines eggs, parsley and a little ground meat (lamb or beef) cooked in 1 finely chopped onion (I use a little olive oil). After letting the meat cool, she would fold it into her egg mix (6 whisked eggs + 2 tbsp cornstarch + S & P + 1/2 cup milk + 1 cup finely chopped parsley). Transfer to a lightly buttered square baking pan. Bake time: +/- 25 min. at 400°. Let cool a little and cut it into squares; serve warm or eat it cold, tucked into pita. Great lunch/brunch choice! Gotta love parsley :P
Pete M.
April 22, 2020
Taboileh, yes. But it's hard to beat Alison Roman's sheetpan vinegar chicken with crushed olives and parsley. #1 at NYT last year for very good reason.
Smaug
April 20, 2020
Parsley is a free going volunteer in my part of the world; it's actually quite a nice looking plant, especially growing in bunches- in flower it stands up well in mixed borders. Bolts quickly in summer weather, though. I'm afraid I end up composting most of it, just too much of it; plants can become huge in fertile soil in winter/spring. My experience is that dried parsley, like most of the annual/biennial herbs, tastes like lawn clippings.
tunie
August 25, 2014
Make a gremolata, adding a nearly equal amount of parmesan and toss generously with penne pasta. I use about 1 cup of chopped parsley per bowl of pasta. It's a lot but it is so good. I also use an entire bunch with 4 ripe bananas and coco water as a green smoothie. Sounds weird but is really great. Enjoy!
Paula W.
February 17, 2020
When you make the green smoothie, do you take the parsley leaves off of the stem or just throw the whole bunch in the blender?
Allison T.
August 23, 2014
I remember when I was growing up parsley was only served as a garnish, I am so glad it is finally being recognized as something that gives more to a dish then garnish.
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Linda M.
September 1, 2019
My parents always told me pardley was good to freshen your breath after a meal. My husband also remembers this from his mother.
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