Moringa oleifera also called the drumstick tree or horseradish tree or
just moringa is something you can easily grow in your garden in today's
episode we look at the harvest of Moringa leaves which are packed with
nutrition and are a great source of protein as well as the Moringa pods
which are not only absolutely delicious but are loaded with vitamins and
minerals
I usually grow a few moringa plants in containers so that I can
harvest these leaves as the plants grow the moringa plant can easily survive winters
in places like Southern California and it will produce pods in the heat of the
summer season so for example here in October
we've been having a few days of very high temperatures and you can see that the
moringa has produced some pods so let's go ahead and harvest some
pods now you should harvest moringa pods when they are a little small in size as
you can see here if you wait too long for the morninga pods to grow bigger
you might get morninga pods that have fruits that are like a little stringy and not
very good tasting so this is about the perfect time to harvest the moringa
pods and you will get the best quality fruit harvesting at this time
and as you can see here this plant has a lot of leaves and a few pods now the
Moringa pods are not only delicious but
absolutely packed with nutrition and you will shortly see some recipes which will
use moringa pods and you can put your moringa pods to good use
so what's so great about moringa well the protein quality found in the morninga
plant is a very high quality and it is not an acidic protein that's found in
animal based protein but the protein that's found in moringa is a plant-based
protein that's alkaline in nature which means it's really good for your body it
has anti-aging benefits as well and it is also packed with vitamins and
minerals Moringa is so nutrition dense that it's sometimes called the miracle tree
or the tree of life - it's indeed a nutritional powerhouse so here you can
see the pods are now harvested and they're pretty tender
and they can be used in a variety of dishes I will be sharing one of the
moringa pod dishes with you soon and at this stage the morning pods must be
prepared for use by harvesting it at this stage you will not have a lot of
seeds large seeds inside the moringa pods a few seeds are good you actually need to
eat the seeds they're packed with nutrition as well as as you can see here
what we're doing is cutting these moringa pods in two or three inch sized pods
and this is how they look like once you've cut the pods and removed a little
bit of skin and they're ready to be used and here are the Moringa leaves that are
harvested the best way to eat these morninga leaves is to just eat them raw
because they are so flavorful when cooked properly and you can even dry these leaves and then
make a powder out of them the powdered leaves are very good source of protein plant
based protein they contain all the nine essential amino acids that are really
good for you so let's jump right into the recipe section where we will look at a delicious
moringa leaves recipe
So there we have it
That was our episode on the moringa harvest
And I hope you liked the harvest of the leaves as well as the pods
And I hope you enjoyed the recipes as well
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