Dishes with barberry - 27 cooking recipes

What is barberry? Barberry is a genus of shrubs of the Barberry family, which is the basis of quite a large number of dishes, pickles, and marinades.

Dishes with barberry

Since barberry is an evergreen plant (or almost so), it can grow almost anywhere, even in the north with its harsh climate. Barberry tolerates winter quite well, even winter in Russia. In Russian cuisine, barberry, or more precisely, barberry leaves, are quite widely used as a spice added when pickling vegetables and mushrooms. Barberry berries are edible, they contain a large amount of fruit acids (tartaric, citric, malic acids). That’s why barberry jam has a special sourness that pleasantly stings the tongue. In addition, marshmallows, sweets, and all kinds of drinks, including alcoholic and non-alcoholic, are also prepared from barberry. Barberry leaves, as mentioned above, become the basis for marinades and pickles. Bees also do not deprive barberry of their attention. Honey from barberry is very tasty, and its color is absolutely wonderful: soft golden. Since the common barberry is, first of all, a thorn, barberry bushes are actively used by many gardeners to build hedges. A plus on the side of barberry hedges is the fact that this plant is almost always green. Although there is also semi-evergreen barberry. But barberry berries on the branches last until the first frost, sometimes even until the second and third. The roots and bark of barberry also find wide application in the human world. They produce excellent paint with a beautiful yellow hue. Some varieties of barberry are actively used as wood by Indian craftsmen in the manufacture of handmade mosaics.