Sparkle & Doom Designs

Sunflowers!!

_{Photo by Matthias Oberholzer on Unsplash}

Did you ever think that eating baby sunflowers would be so delicious?

To be honest – I didn’t know this until I started working at Mumm’s Sprouting Seeds in 2020. They are grown from Black Oil Sunflowers specifically tested to be grown as a microgreen. Which means you grow them in a tray, not a jar, and harvest them by cutting them about 1 cm above your planting medium (soil, jute, coco coir, rockwool, etc). You’ll be munching on the crispy stem and thick crunchy leaves.

There are a ton of ways to eat this microgreen, obviously from the title of this post, & one of my favourites is in a stirfry.

Once you’ve cooked up your choice of meat, added cut up veggies like broccoli, carrot, green beans, peppers & cook them for a bit in your favourite sauce. Once you’re done cooking, remove from heat & add the microgreens! They don’t need to be cooked. Stir them in and let the stirfry rest covered for a minute or three.

We ate this stirfry on sticky rice – which is another new dish we discovered not to long ago. But of course your favourite rice noodle, or steamed rice would be great as well.

You’ll notice there is white sesame seeds in there – which we also purchased from Mumm’s Sprouting Seeds. These seeds have been hulled, which means they won’t sprout, but are perfect to add to stirfry’s, saucy chicken legs, & baking.

Sunflowers take about 10 days to grow from soaking to harvest – plan ahead! I’ll be doing a post showing my growing journey soon.

I’ve added links to the seeds Gordon used in the meal which will take you to Mumm’s Sprouting Seeds. Mumm’s is -the- source for Organic Seeds in Canada. I’m an Affiliate for Mumm’s and receive credit for purchases using my links. Credit I put towards eating healthy!

💀 Anita