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Summer solstice mid-June farm news

Posted on June 22nd, 2020 by Timothy Lyon

Super Sprout Salad Recipe

Here's one of our favourite Sprouts recipes. You can eat them raw, or lightly warmed or cooked. Either way they pack great flavour punch, and are energizing.

Get this:

  • fill a bowl with a 1/3 Crunch bean sprouts (chickpeas, peas), 1/3 Brain Booster sprouts (Alfala mix), 1/3 pea shoots or another leafy green.
  • 3 small or 1 large Radish chopped (easter egg, black flesh, watermelon, or all types)
  • 2 Jerusalem artichokes chopped 
  • 1/3 cup seeds (pumpkin, sunflower, sesame)
  • 1/4 cup chopped nuts (walnuts, chashews)
  • 1 chopped apple or pear
  • 1/2 cup raisins or cranberries
  • other yummy additions :- mushrooms, turnips, grated beets, kohlrabi, any seasonal vegetable. 

Dressing

  • 1 Tbs soy sauce
  • 1 Tbs sesame oil
  • 1 tsp maple syrup
  • 1/2 cup of olive oil ( or sunflower, veggie oil)
  • 2 tsp rice wine vinegar
  • 1 clove of garlic minced

Adjust according to your taste shake well 

Do this:

  • mix all ingredients well in a large bowl and pour dressing over the salad and enjoy

Happy Solstice! It is Summer now, and we give thanks for the earth and sun which make plants fruit.