🌿🌱🐚🥗 A dear and rare guest in cooking - Mertensia.
The plant with the taste of oysters is an amazing perennial plant that has unique culinary and medicinal properties.
This plant is often called "Vegetarian oysters". In nature, mertensia is common along almost all northern coasts from Canada to Russia (Sakhalin, Moneron, Kuril Islands, Ussuri and Udsky districts, Okhotsk, Kamchatka and the Commander Islands), as well as on the Aleutian Islands, Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu), the Korean Peninsula.
The shoots of mertensia are edible, this is a traditional plant raw material of northern cuisine. The edible part - flowers, leaves and rhizomes, is used as a spicy greens and salad plant. Morphological description and habitat are given according to the summary "Vascular plants of the Soviet Far East"
A valuable ingredient with a rich history and significant medicinal properties. Growing mertensia on vertical farms opens up new possibilities in cooking and agriculture, providing a sustainable and healthy product available to everyone. By adding this plant to your diet, you will not only enrich your dishes, but also maintain your health, taking advantage of all its benefits.
🥗This inconspicuous-looking grass with bluish-blue, fleshy leaves, reminiscent of sea waves in dew, can become a real pearl for any restaurant. And for us, this is a profitable plant for growing on a digital farm. The cost of 1 leaf varies from 20 to 100 rubles per piece. You can collect 1-2 leaves per day from a bush. On 1 Greenbar Pro-5 of 720 pots, you can get at least 14,000 rubles per day. This is about 430,000 rubles per month of practically passive income. At the same time, the leaves are a great rarity and are practically not grown in Russia.
The leaves have a dense texture and an amazing shade of bluish-green due to the waxy coating, and this plant does not have basal leaves during flowering. The length of the leaf blade of the seaside mertensia will be about one to five centimeters, while the width will not exceed three centimeters. Such a plate can be either oblong or spatulate, it is obovate, blunt or short-pointed. The flowers of the seaside mertensia are quite small in size, and their length is about one centimeter, they are most often colored in blue tones, but can also be white.
🌿🌱🐚 Growing seaside mertensia on a vertical farm is becoming an increasingly relevant and profitable business for a minimal start. Juicy and dense leaves, up to 3 cm long, are attached directly to the stem, which makes them ideal for vertical gardening. A virtual agronomist will help optimize the growing process, providing the necessary care and control of growing conditions so that the plants delight you with lush growth and fragrant greenery.
🥗 The history of the use of mertensia dates back to ancient times.
This plant served as food, and was actively used in traditional medicine due to its healing properties. The oyster plant maintains health due to its high content of iodine and minerals, which makes it valuable in the diet. In folk medicine, remedies based on this plant have become quite widespread. A decoction prepared from the roots of the sea mertensia is recommended for use in various stomach diseases, while a decoction prepared from the flowers of this plant is recommended for use in malignant breast tumors, as well as a diaphoretic, antipyretic and digestive agent.
For gastritis, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, it is recommended to use the following very effective remedy based on decoction and tincture.
Today, with the growing interest in healthy eating and organic products, mertensia is again attracting attention in both cooking and folk medicine. Its economically advantageous cultivation on vertical farms also opens up new horizons for farmers wishing to develop nachhaltige models of agriculture.
🌿🌱🐚 In cooking, mertensia is used fresh, perfectly complementing fish and seafood dishes, as well as light diet salads. The oyster plant has a taste reminiscent of seafood: slightly salty with a tart iodine aroma, it can become the basis for many culinary experiments. The fleshy leaves of mertensia can replace shellfish, which is especially attractive for those who prefer more familiar textures.
🥗 An equally important part of the culinary heritage is oyster sauce, which occupies a special place in Cantonese cuisine. Providing a subtle sweetish flavor to dishes, this sauce is in perfect harmony with chicken, broccoli and seafood, creating a real gastronomic masterpiece. Its chocolate-caramel color and viscous consistency not only decorate dishes, but also make them more refined, reminiscent of restaurant levels of cooking.
More sea grasses available for cultivation with the help of a virtual agronomist all year round
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