"Leek tops" refers to the green leafy parts at the end of a leek vegetable, which can be eaten or used for cooking.
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Today's 1/2 package of tofu,
leftover leek tops and a fresh crop of home grown sunflower sprouts came together with some pantry essentials to make a great dish.
Serve this soup with Mama's Coconut Oil Drop Biscuits and garnish it with a drizzle of sour cream, the reserved crispy bacon and
fresh leek tops.
8 oz firm organic tofu 1 cup
chopped leek tops 1 handful sunflower sprouts 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 teaspoon cumin 1 teaspoon turmeric 1 teaspoon coriander 4 dried black mushrooms, soaked in hot water water
The second week: kale stems and cabbage stems, mushroom stems, parsnip and carrot tops, lots
of leek tops, more fresh herbs... and some sea salt
Same goes for carrot, radish, and beet tops,
green leek tops, organic root vegetable peels, organic citrus peels, etc..
If you don't want to make leek broth, you can also just use the cooking water from the beans, or even put
the leek tops in the pot with the beans, and cook everything together, then use that cooking water in this dish.
I also keep my celery ends, celeriac peelings, carrot peelings, and dried up carrots in one bag in the freezer and
leek tops / onion trimmings in another.
In this cousin to Irish colcannon, mustard greens,
leek tops, and nutmeg add depth of flavor to mashed potatoes.
Cooking
the leek tops a bit longer makes them meltingly delicious.
1 red cabbage, shredded 1 onion, diced 4
leek tops, just the green tops not used in the Leeks with Vinaigrette recipe, diced 4...
Today's 1/2 package of tofu, leftover
leek tops and a fresh crop of home grown sunflower sprouts came together with some pantry essentials to make...
This broth included kale stems and
leek tops.
I have never used
the leek tops.