You can find our rhubarb along the edge of the deck at the Tasting Centre and in our Produce Paddock at Green Olive at Red Hill.
Interesting Facts about Rhubarb
Rhubarb is a vegetable used most often in sweet dishes such as pies, jams and crumbles. Chinese societies have used rhubarb for thousands of years for traditional medicine but it’s only recently that rhubarb has been used for culinary purposes. The first recorded use of rhubarb was in the eighteenth century, when the price of sugar became more affordable and people began using it in their desserts. Rhubarb contains a large amount of the necessary vitamins that our bodies need to function properly, such as vitamin C, vitamin K, manganese and magnesium. Rhubarb is also a great low-GI source of energy and has very low levels or none of the stuff we shouldn’t eat a lot of like fat, sodium and cholesterol.
3 Delicious Ways to Use Rhubarb
Ways to Use Farm Grown Rhubarb Vinegar
The varieties of rhubarb that we grow at Green Olive at Red Hill are Sydney Crimson, Ruby Red, and Queen Victoria. This year, we harvested the rhubarb from our Kitchen Garden and used it to make Farm Grown Rhubarb Vinegar which can be used in a number of delicious ways:
- To make beetroot carpaccio (keep an eye out on our Instagram for a recipe coming soon!)
- In vinaigrettes drizzled over salads like salad niçoise, vitello tonnato, salmon salad or smoked chicken salad
- To moisten trout, smoked mackerel or cooked chicken
- To deglaze a frying pan
- To add a refreshing twist to a glass of cold, carbonated water on a hot day
- As a unique gift!
Top left: rhubarb and apple crumble; bottom left: rhubarb and coconut granola; right: rhubarb and cream pavlova
Farm Grown Rhubarb Vinegar
Rhubarb and coconut yoghurt granola