Vegetable amaranth (hin choy)

Yield: 1 Servings Ama

Ingredients:

5 minutes of cooking. Or try incorporating the leaves in vegetable

Instructions:

curries as people do in India and Ceylon. For more good eating combine a pound of cooked drained fresh amaranth with 1 pound of ricotta cheese 1 beaten egg and 1/4 cup grated Parmesan and bake at 350'F for 30 minutes. Or try raw amaranth chopped and mixed with chopped onion slightly beaten eggs and a little salt then fried as small pancakes in safflower oil. This green also tastes great when it's cooked and then added to seasoned tomato sauce. If you like you can mix the cooked greens in a blender with minced garlic parsley basil oregano tomato sauce and some tomato paste then use this mixture as one of the layers in a lasagna that also features broad whole wheat noodles and a blend of ricotta cheese salt pepper and parsley. Source: "Unusual Vegetables: Something New for This Year's Garden" by the editors of Organic Gardening and Farming