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| Spring salad with sunflower micro-greens, photo: Szilágyi-Nagy Ildikó |
I
always wanted to know to where sunflowers look at night. Last summer
I made a trip at night to the closest sunflower field. There was a
huge number of mosquitoes waiting for torturing me, but I
persistently marched towards the sunflowers. Even an enormous number
of mosquitoes attacked. The flowers themselves looked to the East.
They seemed to turn back quite quickly after sunset! They must have
waited for the new day eagerly.
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| Sunflower micro-green, photo: Szilágyi-Nagy Ildikó |
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| Sunflower micro-green, photo: Szilágyi-Nagy Ildikó |
I was
really keen on sprouting a year ago, and began to study various
methods. They are all based on sprouting trays, of course, and on a
lot of numbers. How long you have to do and what. As I have
dyscalculia disorder, and I dislike producing too fussy things in my
kitchen, I understood I would probably never sprout myself.
At the
end of the winter I changed my mind. When the sprouts went into
little plants, they made me realize I am fond of mikro-greens.
Sunflower is grown in tons in Hungary for it's oil. Most of Hungarian
people use sunflower oil for cooking.
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| Sunflower micro-green, photo: Szilágyi-Nagy Ildikó |
The seeds make a traditional
snack, szotyola
or szotyi.
My grandmother likes buying sunflower seeds in their hulls, because
she likes peeling them. I bet we peeled millions of sunflower seeds
when I was a young girl!
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| Sunflower micro-greens, photo: Szilágyi-Nagy Ildikó |
Now I am used to planting sunflowers as
mikro-greens. They are delicious and they grow quickly in the
windowsill.
Meanwhile
I prepared my fourth tray of sunflower mikro-greens, other young
plants began to grow in the greenhouse. We didn't plant them all into
the garden, so we obtained several kind of young salads, which,
together with the sunflower mikro-greens, made our first fresh greeny
salad of the spring.
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| Spring salad with sunflower micro-greens, photo: Szilágyi-Nagy Ildikó |
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