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What To Do With Silverbeet
Silverbeet is a lovely leafy green vegetable that contains lots of iron, folate, vitamin A and vitamin C. It can be cooked or eaten raw. Sometimes it can be difficult to get kids to eat it so I like to cook it with a few things added to give it a little more flavour. When cooked, silverbeet reduces quite a bit.
Here are some suggestions on different things you can do with silverbeet. Of course, you don’t have to do exactly as I suggest. Use your imagination and whatever you happen to have to hand.
Wash and roughly chop the silverbeet.
Then chop and lightly fry some onion and/or garlic in a large fryingpan . Add the chopped silverbeet and fry over moderate heat stirring occasionally. I like to cover it initially so that the steam helps to cook the upper layers of the silverbeet to get it to reduce in size a bit quicker. Otherwise it is difficult to stir without it falling out of the frying pan.
I usually add a sprinkle of salt as well.
Sometimes I do it with egg. Fry the chopped silverbeet (with or without the onion) until it has mostly reduced in size and most of the liquid has evaporated. Lightly beat one or two eggs. Clear a little room in the centre of the frying pan and add the egg. Allow the egg to cook awhile and then stir it into the silverbeet.
If you have mushrooms, you can chop these and cook them with the silverbeet to give a nice flavour and a variation in texture.
Leftover silverbeet can be added to other dishes. I have used it in fritters, stir fries, polenta, stews etc.
And if your kids watch Popeye, you can tell them that silverbeet is related to spinach and that might encourage them to eat it!
