Sunflower sprouts make up for the missing crunch.

Top each slice with sunflower sprouts, then with a generous spoonful of the salsa.

Place sunflower sprouts in the centre.

The fritters are served over rice vermicelli, ham, sunflower sprouts and Asian pear.

Use lentil or sunflower sprouts, which have a peppery flavor, in this well-textured salad.

The homespun bistro food includes wild mushroom souffle and grilled trout with sunflower sprouts.

A lighter choice that also received plaudits is the mesclun, baby lettuces entangled with sunflower sprouts and radish rounds in a snappy sherry vinaigrette.

Or how about the salad of spring greens, feta, sunflower sprouts (sunflower sprouts?)

I had an overly vinegary tangle of sunflower sprouts, slightly dry cod, repellently chalky hamachi and a lobster dish that could have passed for a salt lick.

Time to dream a little if you've always wondered what your burger would taste like with fried green tomatoes, and a heap of sunflower sprouts or some fried mozzarella, say.

Sunflower sprouts are meatier than radish, onion, alfalfa and cabbage sprouts, and not as spicy as the radish or onion varieties.

The farm to cafeteria program in Albuquerque, where schools are on a year-round schedule, featured local peaches, blackberries, watermelon, green chilies, sunflower sprouts and a salad bar this summer.

Almost as popular as tomatoes were goat cheese, opal basil, purslane (the garden variety and a large-leaved golden purslane), mint, fennel, lemon thyme and sunflower sprouts.

Spinner: “Anything that involves sunflower greens — like sunflower sprouts, avocados, seaweed and leafy green vegetables,” said the folk musician Brett Dennen about his love of cooking.

The brunch menu, which changes weekly, might list appetizers of grilled shiitake mushrooms with sunflower sprouts, goat-cheese salad with sun-dried tomatoes, or pate with apples and Calvados.

They won some customers over to yellow pear cherry tomatoes through their roasted vegetables; they offered sunflower sprouts next to croutons in the salad bar, and tossed bright orange nasturtiums into the baby lettuce.

Here they are topped with a thick garbanzo bean spread alive with the taste of orange, paprika, cayenne pepper, garlic, and lemon, then layered with fresh spinach, carrots, cucumbers, or sunflower sprouts.

His nose for fresh produce is reflected in his "shoots and roots" salad, a crowded minifestival of pea shoots, popcorn shoots, sunflower sprouts and their ilk in an almond and peppercorn vinaigrette.

Panama Hattie's five-chef team will cook a five-course meal that includes oven-roasted monkfish with grilled baby fennel and grilled yellowfin tuna with a leek and carrot pinwheel, sunflower sprouts and lemon grass.

DISH A delicious salsa of chopped red tomato, peach and red onion with peppery herbs, served on a bed of sunflower sprouts and slices of bread brushed with olive oil and garlic.

Tanya closely planted the yards surrounding the house with vegetables and spices from her homeland, including galangal, lemongrass, bamboo shoots and banana leaves, as well as crops more mainstream here, such as broccoli, spinach and sunflower sprouts.

It is made with tender Swiss chard from the garden layered with tofu and topped with crisp phyllo, served in a pool of tangy buttermilk citrus sauce, and garnished with a lively apple-jicama-walnut salsa and herbal sunflower sprouts.

And more than anything, there were the restaurant's signature rice-bowls: brown basmati rice with a choice of toppings — the ninja, for instance, which offered salad greens, wasabi dill dressing, crispy tofu cubes, sun-dried tomatoes, sunflower sprouts and spicy ginger-tamari dressing.