I ate duckweed from my tanks

[LizStreithorst]

I've read about its nutritional benefits. It's more nutritionally dense than spinach and is said to taste like spinach. I'd been thinking of trying it in recipes for myself for a long time, and yesterday, I did. I made chicken thighs in a Parmesan cream sauce and added it, rinsed and blanched, at the end of cooking. It does indeed taste like spinach. And more importantly, I didn't poison myself with fish tank duckweed.

I know that this will gross some folks out, but I'm glad to have found an excellent use for it. I had planned to use it in my heart recipe instead of spinach but I haven't been up to making heart mix, mostly because all the making and cleaning up afterward was more than my back wanted to endure. My Rainbow fish eat it, but not fast enough. I have an overabundance of the stuff. From now on, I'll be adding it to anything I make that calls for a sauce. It's free and always fresh, and doesn't call for a trip to the supermarket.

[jwcarlson]

Well... that's interesting
It makes sense that it basically just tastes like a green. I'd give it a shot.

One of our ponds grows a ton of it. I've been thinking about putting some goldfish in it as I've heard that they eat it.

[danotaylor]

Good one Liz! Chickens love it as well.
Jacob you could put tilapia in the pond to help control it. Lots of folks use them as natural pond management cause they also eat the decomposing vegetation sludge off the bottom of the pond that consumes tons of O2 and causes algae blooms. During the fall when the water cools you can fish them out and eat them with some of your duck weed if there’s any left

[jwcarlson]

I'm been thinking about tilapia, actually. Would be too late this year, I'd think.