Not Just Dandelion and Rose: 10 Edible Flowers You Probably Didn’t Know About

This lush, showy tropical flower has a sweet, fresh citrus and cranberry flavor – it’s no wonder hibiscus often becomes an ingredient in trendy cocktails. The culinary uses of hibiscus flowers can be very different: add them to muffins, stews, salads, jams, or marinate them first, then stuff them with curd or cheese filling.

Nasturtiums are true floral delights with an exquisite spicy taste similar to mustard. It is best to add nasturtiums to salads, combining them with nuts and beets. Do you want to surprise your guests with something unexpected? Stuff the flowers with goat cheese and they will be the hit of your holiday dinner!

Do you want to make desserts with floral decoration? Next you need pansies, which have a delicate mint flavor – they make excellent decorations for cakes and pastries.

However, this is not the only way to use pansies in cooking: chop their petals, basil, parsley and garlic, mix them with cream cheese and prepare yourself an unusual sandwich for the little one -lunch.

Delicious and unusual floral dishes can be obtained from any part of the clover: its leaves are devoid of bitterness and acidity, but have a pleasant floral aroma, and therefore are ideal for salads, and flowers White ones smell like vanilla and therefore complement pastries perfectly. . You can also try making a traditional Chinese dish from clover by frying it in oil.

These unusual edible flowers are sometimes called “poor man’s saffron” because of the shine that marigolds give to dishes. Marigolds (Tagetes patula) and marigolds (Tagetes tenuifolia) have the most delicious flavor: use their petals to garnish a salad, flavor butter, pickled vegetables, or make sunny yellow cookies.

Lavender is most often used to flavor drinks, but if you are looking for unusual recipes using edible flowers, try making lavender sugar: it is ideal for decorating pastries.

Their flavor is excellent and the season may seem too short. Unless, of course, you extend it: you can make jam from peony petals, just like from roses. Grab the recipe!

If you are not interested in sweets, but in salads with edible flowers, the peony will also come in handy in this case – just add its petals to the rest of the ingredients.

When we think of edible flowering plants, tulips are the last thing that comes to mind: we are used to giving them as gifts on March 8, and not adding them to salads. But for cooking, tulip petals are ideal – they taste like pea and soy sprouts.

Cloves, also known as Dianthus caryophyllus, can add a special fresh note to drinks, salads and sorbets – remember to remove the bitter base of the petal before using.

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The plant chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum coronarium) is little known here, but in China it is incredibly popular. Its petals have a pleasant taste and delicate aroma; they can be eaten both raw and in compote. The leaves and young shoots of the vegetable chrysanthemum resemble celery – they are served boiled, fried or pickled.

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