10 Ways to Incorporate Microgreens into your Meals

Here are 10 ways you can incorporate microgreens into your meal prep. 🌱

1️⃣ Veggie Bowl

Whip up your favorite veggie bowl and add microgreens. Layer in rice, beans, corn, fresh avocado, and your favorite seasonings and/or dressing. Add your favorite microgreens. Add radish or arugula microgreens if you want a little pizazz or spice. If you are looking for something sweeter, try pea microgreens. If you want something different, mix it with chard and beet microgreens.

2️⃣ Beet Salad

Add some broccoli mixed greens with roasted beets, sea salt, pepper, lemon juice, served over a beet-loaf and mashed potatoes.

3️⃣ Avocado Toast

Take a couple of ripe avocados, mash, and mix in sea salt and ground black pepper. Top with microgreens and your favorite vinaigrette or olive oil. Spread over sour toasted sourdough bread. Add a fresh tomato, pumpkin seeds, and goat cheese to make it more savory. For a mild flare, use broccoli or sunflower microgreens. Add arugula or radish microgreens if you’d like a little more zing.

4️⃣ Pasta or Pizza Dishes

Prepare your favorite pasta dish to garnish with a microgreen that adds your desired flavor profile. Basil Lemon microgreens are our favorite on a plate of spaghetti and pesto sauce. Are you a pizza kind of person? Whip up your favorite and experiment, adding various microgreens on top of the pizza after it’s been cooked.

5️⃣ Fresh Microgreens Salad

Using just about any combination of microgreens, you can whip up a different type of salad anchored in traditional salad tastes of broccoli, kale, lettuces, cabbage, chia, basil, spinach, and pea shoots microgreens. If you want something peppery or with more zest, mix in some radish, arugula, curled cress, or mustard microgreens.

6️⃣ Sandwich Toppings

Give your boring sandwich that deli pizzaz by topping your sandwiches with microgreens. They add the perfect crunch and are a great substitute for lettuce.

7️⃣ Smoothies and Juices

The sky is the limit. Whip up your favorite smoothie and add some power greens and antioxidant kale, spinach, broccoli, pea, and beet microgreens. Or, using pea shoots, wheatgrass, and kale microgreens, you can juice yourself up!

8️⃣ Pesto Sauce

To make a restaurant-quality sauce, you can make your own fresh pesto sauce using arugula and basil microgreens, pine nuts, garlic, sea salt, and extra virgin olive oil.

9️⃣ Stir-Fry Dishes

We all make them. Whip up your favorite stir fry and experiment with different microgreens, including radish, mizuna, wasabi, and pak choy. Note that some microgreens don’t cook well, so mix them after cooking your stir-fry.

🔟 Eggs

A perch farm stable and favorite. Add microgreens to your omelet or fried egg sandwich, or top those scrambled eggs with fresh microgreens.