Micro kohlrabi
Brassica oleracea var. gongylodes · Brassica
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Micro kohlrabi is ordinary kohlrabi (Brassica oleracea var. gongylodes) harvested as a microgreen — a tiny seedling 4–8 cm tall, cut about one to three weeks after sowing once its first pair of seed-leaves has greened up. Eaten raw as a garnish or in salads, it delivers a concentrated, clean kohlrabi flavour — a fresh, sweet-mild cross of cabbage, broccoli stem and radish with a faint peppery bite — long before the plant ever forms its trademark swollen stem.
Picking a good onedrag
Small and tenderWoody and pithy
Shop firmEveryday bestThe all-rounder: raw in slaw, or roasted, steamed and braised.
Size and skinBigger than a fist, still smooth
Leaf stalksStanding, floppy at the tips
ThumbnailNail marks it, no sap
Smell at the cutAlmost nothing, clean and cool
These cues are Kohlrabi's, and hold across its varieties; where this one differs, its own page says so.
What you get from one
46%
Edible part
161 g · tops and peel off
350 g
Weight each
each one
Keeping ittap a temperature
A domestic fridge holds it about 10× longer than the counter.
98-100%
Humidity
Still, not sealed
Airflow