Make These Snacks From Your Home Garden Harvest

You’ve spent months cultivating your backyard garden, and now is finally the time to celebrate your harvest. While it’s perfectly valid to munch on your snap peas and carrots directly from the garden, you may also want to transform them into a tasty snack that will show off the healthy, nutritious, and delicious fruits of your labor!

Here are some healthy snacks to create from your garden’s bounty, which will impress friends and family alike!


Carrots – Whether they’re orange, yellow, or purple, carrots come packed with nutrients, including beta carotene (good for eyes and vision) and fiber (good for digestion). All you need to make them more tasty is olive oil, salt, and your favorite spices (which can then become a healthy alternative to potato chips). Try this recipe from AllRecipe or improvise your own!


Cucumbers – A great salad topper or base for pickling, cucumbers can be dressed up in many ways. Adding ingredients like soy sauce, rice vinegar, red pepper, and sesame seeds create a spicy, tasty, and refreshing snack. Try the New York Times Chinese Smashed Cucumbers With Sesame Oil and Garlic or Simply Recipes’ Sesame Cucumber Salad.


Lettuce – In addition to all the delicious salads we can make with the beautiful leaves blooming from our garden, we can also craft lettuce wraps. Use a large piece of lettuce, and sprinkle with savory and crunchy toppings, from chicken, to nuts, to bamboo shoots, to cilantro. Pick from one of Delish’s 15 lettuce wrap recipes and give it a try with your harvest.


Green beans – Create a tasty, tangy pickle from your green bean crop. This easy recipe from Spruce Eats will only take 48 hours of pickling time before you can dig in, but you can also make pickles that last you into the winter months, and remind you of your delicious summer harvest.


Squash – Depending on the type of squash growing in your garden this year, you can make butternut squash soup, squash chips, or pumpkin smoothies and parfaits.


Seeds – Whether you’re pitting a pumpkin or removing seeds from a sunflower, you can create healthy, tasty snacks with their seeds! Clean, dry, and dress them in oil, salt, and your favorite spice. You can also turn them into granola, with this recipe from the Pioneer Woman.


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