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Many recipes do not, in my opinion, contain anywhere near enough vegetable. To counter-act this I'll often serve the meal with a salad, or some steamed vegetables on the side.
However sometimes I want to add more vegetable directly into the meal, and one of my favourite ingredients, greens, are a great choice for this. They wilt down and cook so quickly, meaning you don't have to make any complicated changes to the cooking method.
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Greens are also perfect when added to tomato based sauces, casseroles andhotpots, curries, soups, and legume dishes. When cooking these kinds of meals I regularly add a few handfuls of some kind of greenery, close to the end of cooking
I add half bunches of fresh herbs to salads, using them as another salad green. Which both tastes delicious and ensures you easily get through a whole bunch.
If I’m after an easy vegetable side dish, I’ll quickly cook some mixed seasonal greens in olive oil, adding in any fresh herbs or flavourings I want, and finishing with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice.
Spinach is also a vegetable I regularly add to frittatas and omelettes - as you can see from the photo to the right!
I add half bunches of fresh herbs to salads, using them as another salad green. Which both tastes delicious and ensures you easily get through a whole bunch.
If I’m after an easy vegetable side dish, I’ll quickly cook some mixed seasonal greens in olive oil, adding in any fresh herbs or flavourings I want, and finishing with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice.
Spinach is also a vegetable I regularly add to frittatas and omelettes - as you can see from the photo to the right!
How do you use greens?
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