Medicinal use:These strawberries are eaten fresh, with orange juice or milk or yogurt, sprinkled with sugar or cream. In addition, they are used to decorate a large number of desserts and ice creams. With them, jams, preserves, jellies, smoothies, sorbets, etc. are made.
Origin: Mediterranean, China and Arabian Peninsula
Medicinal use: It is often added to a pizza at the end of or just after baking. It is also used cooked in Apulia, in southern Italy, to make the pasta dish cavatiéddi, “in which large amounts of coarsely chopped rocket are added to pasta seasoned with a homemade reduced tomato sauce and pecorino”,as well as in “many unpretentious recipes in which it is added, chopped, to sauces and cooked dishes” or in a sauce (made by frying it in olive oil and garlic) used as a condiment for cold meats and fish.
Medicinal use:It is a vegetable related to the onion. It is grown and used as a substitute for garlic and onion in cooking and is known as “Maroi nakupi”. The flavor is more like garlic chives. The chopped flowers and leaves are usually sprinkled in salads, sandwiches and stews in general. It is delicious for making compound butters and cream cheese.
Medicinal use:The leaves are used fresh, whole or chopped, as a substitute for coriander and parsley. In Panama, it is mixed with parsley, garlic, onion and chives to prepare “green recao”, a condiment widely used in the preparation of various stews, sauces and soups.
