Uses for carrot tops?

ceridwen

Decided to try buying my carrots with the green feathery tops still on them this time and wondering what I can do with them please:)

So far - I've chopped a bit of them up and added to green salad - yep..that was worth doing.

I've still got most of them left though and am now wondering what else I can do with them...and you all know how I hate throwing any "bits" attached to my food away if I can find a way of cooking them up into something:D

Any ideas please?

zippychick

Hi Ceridwen

I've never used them myself, but the question was asked before-carrot tops. I'll leave this until you get more OS input and then merge it later. Do let us know if you find any exciting uses!

thanks
Zip

ubamother

not culinary, but you can cut the top of a carrot (even without foliage) and pop in a saucer of water and it will grow foliage - presumably you could pop it in some moist compost and it would carry on growing as a sort of house plant? I leave a couple of the carrots that I grow in the garden to flower as buzzy creatures love them - perhaps you could try popping them in a bit of soil to see if it worked - maybe you could get some seed if they flower (this is a guess, not something I've done!)

Penelope_Penguin

ceridwen wrote: »

So far - I've chopped a bit of them up and added to green salad - yep..that was worth doing.

Really? I'd never thought of eating them - will try tomorrow

ceridwen

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Really? I'd never thought of eating them - will try tomorrow

You name it - and I will try eating it:D - as long as its vegetarian....

Do let us know if you come up with any good ideas...I'm currently wondering round scratching my head thinking "Maybe chopped up into a frittata...hmmm....maybe topping up a stirfry???:think:

(witness the dinner I'm eating as I speak - yep..kohlrabi leaves can be steamed for a few minute and served with butter on.....I'm eating them right now...another successful experiment concluded)

Penelope_Penguin

ceridwen wrote: »

(witness the dinner I'm eating as I speak - yep..kohlrabi leaves can be steamed for a few minute and served with butter on.....I'm eating them right now...another successful experiment concluded)

There's no reason why you shouldn;t eat the leaves - I've fed mine to the chooks, so will be turning them into eggs :rotfl:

ceridwen

......hmmm....now that was a NICE dinner I've just finished - complete with those kohlrabi leaves in.

Being all experimental here tonight - so tried out some noodles with peanut butter and lime juice with them and a sauce of tomatoes/onion/onion tops/chilli over the top - and those green leaves as a side dish. Nice - good combination there for the main bit I thought.

Decided to experiment with carob powder as well - so it was yogurt, stewed rhubarb, chopped walnuts, teaspoon honey and generous amount of carob powder sprinkled over the top. Also nice:D. 'Twill be even better when I make it again - with twice as much carob powder - and then put it in the freeze to freeze up into a "sorta icecream"...:D:D

Aril

Knowing how much you like your links Ceridwen;) how about the following for an online museum dedicated solely to the humble carrot
https://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk
Aril

ceridwen

Aril wrote: »

Knowing how much you like your links Ceridwen;) how about the following for an online museum dedicated solely to the humble carrot
www.carrotmuseum.co.uk
Aril

Hi Aril:wave:

I do indeedy like my links - comes from being such a big reader:D.

I'll have a look at that. Thanks.

Patchwork_Quilt

I have heard that they can be used in soup. I have tried it but have also heard that some people are sensitive to them so decided not to bother but put them on the compost heap, where they will be turned into food in due course.

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ubamother wrote: »

not culinary, but you can cut the top of a carrot (even without foliage) and pop in a saucer of water and it will grow foliage - presumably you could pop it in some moist compost and it would carry on growing as a sort of house plant? I leave a couple of the carrots that I grow in the garden to flower as buzzy creatures love them - perhaps you could try popping them in a bit of soil to see if it worked - maybe you could get some seed if they flower (this is a guess, not something I've done!)

We used to do this years ago back in the 1940s but I can't remember what Mum did with them,I know they used to grow quite tall and have a feeling the greenery was chopped up and used in a salad but it is over 60 years ago so you must forgive my memory ,but I can remember as a little girl being facinated that the fronds seemed to keep on growing.