Sumac

October was sumac month in the Wild Things roundup. Here’s some of the recipes we’ve retrieved from the web- so that if in the future you find yourself face to face with a sumac bush, you’ve got some ideas of where to start . Enjoy!

3 Foragers have a seriously cool looking recipe for Sumac Meringues

From Dinners and Dreams, a gorgeous looking recipe for sumac chicken.

 Kalyn’s kitchen has a recipe for cauliflower ‘rice’ with onions and sumac.

Fearless Kitchen brings us a recipe for flatbreads with sumac.

Over at For the Love of Food we have a recipe for bulgur salad with sumac shrimp.

Mama’s Lebanese Kitchen brings us a recipe for Sumac-ade

David Lebovitz has a hilarious account of himself running all over Paris to find sumac. And although it wasn’t gathered from the wild, we included it because it’s an easy recipe to make if you DO happen to gather your own:

Lifespan of a Chenette has a great recipe for za’atar spice blend

The lovely Butter Powered Bike has a delicious recipe for sumac dusted trout

 

She also has a recipe for spicy grownup applesauce

And a Rocky Mountain version of a za’atar spice blend (yummy!!)

And finally, I have a recipe for sumac chicken  

 

And finally, a write up of the medicinal properties of astringent herbs, sumac included.