Microgreens for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Microgreens are so delicioius and versatile that they can be used for every meal of the day. Here are some of our favorite ways to eat them at breakfast, lunch and dinner. Use these ideas to start thinking of all the dishes you love to eat on a regular basis and how you can incorporate more microgreens into your favorite meals.
Breakfast
Microgreen Breakfast Bowls
Using eggs as your base protein, here are some additional ingredients to add into your breakfast bowl to pack it full of flavor and extra nutrition:
Ingredients
Crumbled or sliced, cooked sausage
Bacon bits
Spinach
Chopped tomato
Diced avocado
Shredded Cheese
Broccoli, Kale, or any favorite mix of microgreens
Lunch
Microgreen Tacos
Ingredients
Corn or Flour Tortillas
Beef or chicken, cooked, with favorite taco seasoning
Chopped red onion
Chopped tomato
Diced Avocado
Sour cream
Microgreens
Fresh lime juice, for garnish
Dinner
Creamy Microgreen Pasta
Microgreens are a wonderful garnish to any of your favorite pasta dishes. Toss a handful on top of creamy mac and cheese, spaghetti, or carbonara. Here we made a simple cream sauce and topped it with our Spicy Mix.
Ingredients
8 oz Spaghetti noodles, or pasta of choice
2 tblsp butter
3 garlic cloves, minced
2 tblsp flour
1 3/4 cup half and half
1/3 cup grated parmesan cheese
1/4 cup sun dried tomatoes, finely minced (optional)
1/2 tsp salt
Pepper
Fresh Microgreens
Directions
Boil water for pasta and cook as directed on package. While pasta cooks, make cream sauce.
Melt butter in saucepan over medium heat. Add minced garlic and cook until fragrant, 2-3 minutes, stirring constantly.
Stir in flour and cook 2-3 min to make roux.
Add half and half and stir to combine. Cook additional 2 min until thickened and bubbly.
Mix in parmesan cheese and sundried tomato. Add desired amount of pepper.
Combine pasta and sauce and serve immediately topped with microgreens and additional parmesan cheese.