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New
Food Cookbook Chapter: Greens
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Shiso
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known as: Perilla, Purple Mint, Beefsteak Plant, Chinese Basil, Deulkkae,
Wild Coleus or Silam
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Origin and cultivation:
herb in the mint family especially popular in Asia
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Availability: year-round, especially in Japanese groceries
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Appearance:
Green spiky leaf, can also be purple
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Flavor:
distinctive unique sweet mint like flavor with hints of fennel
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Trivia: Green
plastic leaf dividers commonly used on sushi platters in the U.S. are actually
a replacement for genuine shiso
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Recipes:
Cucumber
Salad with Feta and Shiso Fruit
Macerated with Shiso and Sweet Wine ••••••••
Sprouts-
Origin and cultivation:
harvested when they are between 4 and 5 days old. New varieties of seeds and beans
are being introduced as commercial sprouts constantly
- Availability:
year-round
- Appearance:
little mini plants
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Flavor: often resembles
the adult seed or bean
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Trivia: eaten for
over thousands of years,000 years ago
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Recipes:
Snow
Pea Sprout and Radish Salad ••••••••
Shoots- Origin
and cultivation:
harvested around 14 days old, often from sweet peas or snow peas
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Availability: spring
at farmers markets
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Appearance: tiny
plants
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Flavor: fresh flavor
resembling the adult seed or bean
- Trivia:
very popular in China their size when fried
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Recipes:
Sautéed
Pea Shoots with Baby Carrots and Spring Garlic ••••••••
Microgreens
- Origin
and cultivation:
14 and 20 days old, as opposed to baby greens like mesclun mix which are harvested
after 35 days. Microgreens exist for all of the same greens that are in mesclun
mixes
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Availability: year-round
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Appearance: tiny
lettuce leaves
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Flavor: resembling the older salad greens, but often more intense, sometimes
spicy
- Trivia:
you can buy kits to grow microgreens at home
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Recipes:
Microgreens
in Tiny Parmesan Bowls Microgreens
on Fried Goat Cheese Medallions | |
