Micro mustard
Brassica juncea · Leafy green
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Micro mustard is the microgreen of mustard greens (Brassica juncea) — brown or Indian mustard seedlings cut at roughly one to three weeks old, when the plant is only a few centimetres tall with its seed leaves and the first true leaves. Tiny but ferociously flavoured, it concentrates the mature leaf's sharp, peppery, horseradish-like mustard bite into a single tender shoot eaten raw.
Picking a good onedrag
Squeaky, peppery, just cutYellow, limp, sulphurous
Shop freshEveryday bestThe all-rounder: the long braise, saag, or a fast stir-fry.
BladeGreen, a few blades relaxed at the edge
The midribMidrib bends, the leaf still stands
Cut endsRim drying, still pale inside the cut
Smell at a torn leafPeppery and green, milder
These cues are Mustard greens's, and hold across its varieties; where this one differs, its own page says so.
What you get from one
93%
Edible part
465 g · only the tough stem bases off
500 g
Weight each
each one
Keeping ittap a temperature
A domestic fridge holds it about 8× longer than the counter.
95-98%
Humidity
Vented bag, never sealed
Airflow