I had a customer tell me most recipes don't give specific amounts of how much Microgreens to add, and I realized I do this too with instructions such as "add a small mountain" or "then throw in a bunch" or "aim high" so I decided to do a little photo series of dinner today to show how 5 cups of Microgreens become a hilarious example of greens shrinkage once they are stirred in to a hot dish.
So this is a similar Red Thai Curry to the one I posted a couple of weeks ago but you can do this for any stew or curry-like dish or pretty much anything saucy, stir fry, pasta, you name it. Cook the vegetables in your recipe until they are basically done but could stand a few more minutes in the pot. On this occasion, I had pre-chopped up "a large mountain" of sunflower, pea and broccoli Micros into bite size pieces (photo 1.) and as you can see the "large mountain" came to be about 5 cups of micros.
Toss the 5 cups into the curry pot (photo 2.) It will look like there's more Microgreens than curry, but stir a few times. Put the lid on the pot to steam the water out of them quicker.
After a few minutes stir again. Decide how cooked you want the greens to be, you can cook them longer if you don't want them to crunch but about 3 or 4 minutes left them crunchy and fresh tasting (photo 3.) The longer they cook, the more they will lose the bright green color as well. As you can see, the Micros look comically like FAR less than 5 cups once they get heated. They do not overpower the dish. They mix in beautifully like spinach or kale. Go crazy. Use those greens up.
So you can feel very free to pile the Microgreens into your hot dishes and chuckle as they all but disappear... but the nutrients don't disappear! Eating raw is usually better, but cooked greens have powers too so you can eat as much as you can of those powerful disease-fighting greens and reap all the health benefits by mixing them by the mountain load into your usual saucy dinners!
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