{"id":30235,"date":"2022-07-13T18:59:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T16:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=30235"},"modified":"2022-07-13T20:00:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T18:00:22","slug":"sweet-gigas-stalks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=30235","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Gigas stalks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Somebody asked me a few days ago if one could eat <em>Angelica gigas<\/em> (Korean Angelica) as you can <em>Angelica archangelica<\/em> (see my book Around the World in 80 plants for more about that). In my book, I do mention gigas as one of several other <em>Angelica<\/em> species used in other parts of the world, but until yesterday I hadn&#8217;t eaten it myself, partly as I\u00a8&#8217;ve never had many plants and the flowering is wonderful!!<br \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30259 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Twitter-Gigas.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"827\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Twitter-Gigas.png 580w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Twitter-Gigas-210x300.png 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><br \/>On the Korean wiki page, it simply states that &#8220;dangwi \/ dangquai&#8217;s petioles and tender stems are eaten raw or seasoned with herbs&#8221;. The root is also used medicinally along with <em>Angelica acutiloba<\/em> and <em>Angelica sinensis<\/em>.<br \/>You can find various instructional videos and recipes on Korean pages by searching<br \/>For example, the spring leaves and petioles are boiled and served with onions, garlic, sesame oil and sesame seeds.<br \/>As my plants were close to flowering (they darken quickly to deep red at this stage), I decided to go for using the flower stems in salad:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30260 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P7133855.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P7133855.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P7133855-300x257.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P7133855-768x659.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P7133855-640x549.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>I first took one of the thicker flower stems&#8230;<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30239 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P7123786.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P7123786.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P7123786-132x300.jpg 132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&#8230;.and sliced off a bit at the base for a taste! I was taken aback by how sweet it was (flower stems of Angelica archangelica were in the past considered to be candy by Norwegians). This reminded me of other plants that have surprisingly sweet flower stems: <em>Scorzonera hispanica<\/em> (scorzonera \/ scorsonnerot) and <em>Arctium<\/em> (burdock \/ borre). I assume that as plants like these approach flowering they produce less insect repellent chemicals and transfer their energy to producing flowers and seeds. For the salad, I peeled off the outer layer as it is fibrous and sliced it into the salad.\u00a0 Young seed pods of sea kale \/ strandk\u00e5l were also available as were <em>Scorzonera<\/em> flower stems and buds.<br \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30238\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P7123788.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"851\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P7123788.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P7123788-282x300.jpg 282w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P7123788-768x817.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P7123788-640x681.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30237\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P7123790.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P7123790.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P7123790-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P7123790-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/P7123790-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>As with most <em>Apiaceae, Angelica gigas<\/em> is very popular with the pollinators, so this one definitely fits into the Edi-ento-mental category (delicious, ornamental and popular with the pollinators &#8211; what more could you wish of a plant!).<br \/>Unfortunately, like <em>Angelica archangelica<\/em> this species dies after flowering.<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody asked me a few days ago if one could eat Angelica gigas (Korean Angelica) as you can Angelica archangelica (see my book Around the World in 80 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3143,10,17,3122],"tags":[4678,4679,4677,4676],"class_list":["post-30235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edientomental","category-edimentals","category-food","category-pollinators","tag-angelica-gigas","tag-apiaceae","tag-koreakvann","tag-korean-angelica"],"views":3005,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30235"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30263,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30235\/revisions\/30263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}