Introducing Green Garlic and Asian Greens:
You are all familiar with Green Onions. But how about Green Garlic? Green Garlic is simply a garlic plant that is harvested before it reaches full maturity. With Green Garlic, you can use the entire plant, just like you do with green onions. Soups, stews, salad dressings…you’re gonna love the flavour and medicinal qualities that Green Garlic offers.
Another one of the fun crops that The Cutting Veg grows is our Asian Greens Mix. Included in this mix are leafy greens such as mizuna, pac choi, tah tsai, komatsuna, and mustard greens. What we love about this mix, aside from the unique flavours, is that it can be used as a salad, or cooked. If cooking your Asian Greens, you can use them however you would cook with kale, chard, or spinach — steam them, throw them in a stir-fry, soup, stew, curry, etc. Whether in salad or cooked, our Asian Greens are certainly well-loved.
Recipe: Asian Greens Salad with Edemame
Ingredients:
4 cups Asian baby greens
1 cup frozen edemame
1 cup sweet corn
1 ripe mango, peeled and sliced
Sunflower sprouts (optional)
The dressing:
4 Tbsp olive oil
2 Tbsp apple juice
1 tsp sugar (optional)
1 tsp dry basil
Instructions:
Ø Whisk all the ingredients for the salad dressing.
Ø In a medium bowl, combine all the vegetables for the salad.
Ø Add the dressing and mix.
Ø Serve as a main course or appetizer.
Serves 4
That’s all the news from the farm for now. Enjoy your first week of local, organic veg from your farm. Until next time, Keep Livin’ on the Veg!
Daniel
Daniel Hoffmann
(647) 388-7444
daniel@thecuttingveg.com