Watercress microgreen
Nasturtium officinale · Leafy green
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The watercress microgreen is the young seedling of watercress (Nasturtium officinale), cut at the cotyledon-to-first-true-leaf stage roughly one to three weeks after sowing. It delivers the plant's clean, sharp, peppery-mustardy bite in a tiny, tender package, and is used almost exclusively raw as a finishing garnish or a salad green.
Picking a good onedrag
Squeaky, peppery, just cutYellow, limp, slimy at the band
Shop freshEveryday bestThe all-rounder: salads, sandwiches, wilted into soup.
Leaf colourGreen, a few leaves paling at the edge
The stemsSnap, but the break face is only damp
Cut endsRims drying, pale green inside
Smell at the bunchPeppery over clean wet green
These cues are Watercress's, and hold across its varieties; where this one differs, its own page says so.
What you get from one
92%
Edible part
104 g · tough stems and ends off
113 g
Weight each
each one
Keeping ittap a temperature
A domestic fridge holds it about 11× longer than the counter.
95-100%
Humidity
Perforated bag, never sealed
Airflow