Simple Uses for Tatsoi

 

When you have a large crop of tatsoi from the garden or farmstand, you don't have time to casually include it in complicated recipes or to frantically figure out how to use it up before it goes bad without getting sick of it.  You want to make the most of your harvest and to actually enjoy it.

Here at Plant to Plate, we like to keep things simple!  Here are some of my favorite ways to use or preserve tatsoi:

The below uses refer to tatsoi leaves unless otherwise indicated.

• Sauté or stirfry it with mizuna and carrots.

• Sauté or stirfry it with sausage and fennel stalks and bulbs.

• Sauté it with garlic and onions.  Optionally, drizzle with maple syrup or agave nectar.

• Sauté it with ginger.  Drizzle with sesame oil.

• Sauté it with carrots and serrano peppers.

• Sauté it with chicken and peanuts.

• Sauté it with turkey and onions.

• Stirfry it with chicken and garlic.

• Add the leaves to other sauté and stirfry dishes, alone or with another Brassica green such as komatsuna, mizuna, or kale.

• Add the flowers to other sauté and stirfry dishes.

• Bake it with salmon, ginger, and sesame oil.

• Bake it with halibut, ginger, and sesame oil.

• Top a baked or mashed potato with it.

• Add it to egg dishes such as omelets and quiches.

• Add it to pasta dishes, baked or stovetop.

• Add it to rice bowls and other grain bowls such as those made with quinoa or sorghum.

• Make a simple soup with tatsoi, carrots, onions, and bell peppers.

• Make a simple soup with tatsoi, sweet potatoes, and fennel.

• Add it to other soups and broths.  Tatsoi leaves, stems, and flowers can all be added to soups and broths.

• Add it to sandwiches and paninis.

• Use the leaves as a Base or Partial Base for an Interesting Salad.  (Wondering why I capitalized those letters? Read more about Interesting Salads here!)

• Use the flowers as Decor in an Interesting Salad.

• Make a Simple Salad with tatsoi, mandarin oranges, and bell peppers.

• Add the leaves and flowers to other salads.

• Blanch and freeze it to save it for later.  Learn more about blanching here.

• Dry or dehydrate it.  Learn more about drying and dehydrating here.

Further Reading

Growing tatsoi?  Check out these quick facts like its best growing conditions, companion plants, and expected yields.

Tatsoi is also featured in these articles:

• Quick Facts: Growing Tatsoi
• The Interesting Salad Protocol: How to Build an Interesting Salad
  

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