FabulousFusionFood's Spice Guide for Wolfberry Home Page
Dried
wolfberries/goji
berries, the fruit
of Lycium
barbarum.
Welcome to the summary page for FabulousFusionFood's Spice guide to Wolfberry along with all the Wolfberry containing recipes presented on this site, with 1 recipes in total.
This is a continuation of an entire series of pages that will, I hope, allow my visitors to better navigate this site. As well as displaying recipes by name, country and region of origin I am now planning a whole series of pages where recipes can be located by meal type and main ingredient. This page gives a listing of all the Cornish recipes added to this site.
These recipes, all contain as a major flavouring.
The Wolfberry (also known as Goji Berry or Chinese Boxthorn) is the name of the fruit of Lycium barbarum or Lycium chinense, species of boxthorn in the family Solanaceae (which also includes the potato, tomato, eggplant, and tobacco). Although its original habitat is obscure (probably southeastern Europe to southwest Asia), wolfberry species are now grown around the world, including in China. Wolfberry species are deciduous woody perennial plants, growing 1–3 m high. Wolfberry leaves form on the shoot either in an alternating arrangement or in bundles of up to 3, each having a shape that is either lanceolate (as it is shaped like a spearhead longer than it is wide) or ovate (egg-like). One to 3 flowers (picture above) occur on stems 1–2 cm in length. 'Wolfberry' is an English translation of gǒuqǐ the plan't Chinese name. In the English-speaking world, 'goji berry' has, in recent years been used as a synonym for Wolfberry.
Wolfberries are sweet in taste and can be eaten raw, consumed as juice or wine, brewed into a tea, or prepared as a tincture. Dried wolfberries can also be eaten either raw or cooked and their taste is similar to that of raisins with trace tastes of tomato (a plant family relative) and nuts. Dried wolfberry is an ingredient often used in Chinese soups.
Though it is a fruit, in Chinese cuisine it is typically used dried, in relatively small quantities, more like a spice than a fruit, hence its inclusion in this list of spices.
This is a continuation of an entire series of pages that will, I hope, allow my visitors to better navigate this site. As well as displaying recipes by name, country and region of origin I am now planning a whole series of pages where recipes can be located by meal type and main ingredient. This page gives a listing of all the Cornish recipes added to this site.
These recipes, all contain as a major flavouring.
The Wolfberry (also known as Goji Berry or Chinese Boxthorn) is the name of the fruit of Lycium barbarum or Lycium chinense, species of boxthorn in the family Solanaceae (which also includes the potato, tomato, eggplant, and tobacco). Although its original habitat is obscure (probably southeastern Europe to southwest Asia), wolfberry species are now grown around the world, including in China. Wolfberry species are deciduous woody perennial plants, growing 1–3 m high. Wolfberry leaves form on the shoot either in an alternating arrangement or in bundles of up to 3, each having a shape that is either lanceolate (as it is shaped like a spearhead longer than it is wide) or ovate (egg-like). One to 3 flowers (picture above) occur on stems 1–2 cm in length. 'Wolfberry' is an English translation of gǒuqǐ the plan't Chinese name. In the English-speaking world, 'goji berry' has, in recent years been used as a synonym for Wolfberry.
Wolfberries are sweet in taste and can be eaten raw, consumed as juice or wine, brewed into a tea, or prepared as a tincture. Dried wolfberries can also be eaten either raw or cooked and their taste is similar to that of raisins with trace tastes of tomato (a plant family relative) and nuts. Dried wolfberry is an ingredient often used in Chinese soups.
Though it is a fruit, in Chinese cuisine it is typically used dried, in relatively small quantities, more like a spice than a fruit, hence its inclusion in this list of spices.
The alphabetical list of all Wolfberry recipes on this site follows, (limited to 100 recipes per page). There are 1 recipes in total:
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| Seaweed Wolfberry Cupcakes Origin: Britain |
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