What Else are you doing with Carrot Tops?

[ChrisGreaves]

It's a long story, but I'm once again growing carrot tops in saucers of water.
A by-product is that i end up with fresh leafy green shoots.
I know that I can chop them up and add them to a salad dish.

The taste is slightly bitter, which suggests (evolution) a mild toxicity.
To which the usual solution is boiling or baking.

Just curious ...

[DaveA]

Have you Googled "Carrot Tops edible" without the quotes?
Lots of hits and some with recipes!

[ChrisGreaves]

Have you Googled "Carrot Tops edible" without the quotes?

Yes, Dave; I did that yesterday.
I'm now interested in what my peers are doing here in the lounge's kitchen!

[Rudi]

Well, if you are interested in my opinion, i have always eaten only the bottom part, exclusively, and with modest gusto.

[DaveA]

I agree with Rudi, I get enough greens from other plants that taste much better.

[Rudi]

Excluding Brussel sprouts

[Claude]

I use the shoots for juicing: carrots, bit of ginger, radish, garlic, apple, parsley, shallots, fresh pepper leaves and carrot tops. The apple offsets the bitterness of the tops.

[ChrisGreaves]

I use the shoots for juicing: carrots, bit of ginger, radish, garlic, apple, parsley, shallots, fresh pepper leaves and carrot tops. The apple offsets the bitterness of the tops.

Ah! Thanks, Claude.
Juicing as in "Popping the lot into a high-speed blender"?

[Claude]

Ah! Thanks, Claude.
Juicing as in "Popping the lot into a high-speed blender"?

No, we've got a slow speed juicer, juice lasts longer due to absence of lots of tiny air bubbles; (think oxygen).

[ChrisGreaves]

...(think oxygen).

Thanks Claude.
It's oxygen that seems to be the death of all living things (grin)