To add juniper berries to a dish, you can start by crushing the berries and adding them to a sauce or marinade. By the way, to crush the berries without making a mess, you can put them inside a zippered bag and smash them using a wine bottle, hammer, or anything else you may have at hand. This recipe consists basically of seitan cooked in a red wine reduction flavored with vegetables and juniper berries that are also served with browned Italian onions.
The application of juniper berries in plant-based dishes is not common, so the number of recipes available online is quite limited. Want to learn more about it?
Therefore they can be useful for such issues as cold, congestion, cough, urinary tract infections, arthritis, and gout. They are fairly intense in their action, so only small amounts are used. The use of the berries for anyone with only one kidney, or someone with kidney disease, is not advised. Our juniper bush towers over us these days. It has grown from a modest six feet to easily 11 feet over the past 15 years.
In that way, I can leave some of the berries for the birds. The time-honored way to pick is much like mulberry picking. Place a sheet underneath the shrub, grasp a branch with berries, and gently shake. The berries will fall off quite easily. You are looking for only the blue, ripe berries. Anything green will rot before it dries. After gathering the berries, it is time to dry them. It takes quite a while to fully dry a juniper berry because it is highly resinous.
Search for:. Follow Us. Click on the relevant magazine to view the current suppliers. Ask Smithsonian A Smithsonian magazine special report. Juniper berries Image courtesy of Janellie About a year ago I went a little crazy in a specialty spice store and picked up all kinds of exotic spices to try. What are they? Where do they come from?
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