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.
 
Greens are also perfect when added to tomato based sauces, casseroles andhotpotscurriessoups, 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!
 

How do you use greens?

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