VIDEO: Chive Flowers: Edible?
Chive blossoms enrich your early summer kitchen enormously. Just give it a try and be amazed.
Edible and tasty - chive flowers
- Basically, the flowers of edible herbs, vegetables, and salads taste good fruit always similar to the later parts of the plant that are edible. However, chive flowers are much spicier, more aromatic and hotter than the stalks of chives.
- Chive flowers taste quite peppery. You can use the flowers in your dishes as an aromatic substitute for pepper and get a completely new, surprisingly delicious taste experience.
- If you use a little more of the pretty chive flowers, you can use the flowers to replace some of the pepperoni or chilli peppers. The flowers of the chives are also hot, but have a completely different taste than pepper or chilli.
- Chives flowers are especially recommended for seasoning salads and light cream soups. In addition to their delicious taste, the flowers also look very seductive. It is not for nothing that it is said: "You eat with your eyes."
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Parts of the chive flowers that are edible
- Basically, just like you can pluck the lilac-colored flower ball from the chives, the flower is also edible whole.
- The central part of the flower, where the delicate, small petals are attached, is the part of the chive flower that has the most heat.
- The lilac-colored petals are only slightly sharp; in terms of spiciness, roughly the same as noble sweet paprika.
- You can just pluck off the petals of the chive flowers and mix them with your dishes. You can finely chop the entire flower and warm it up completely in your dish. You can also finely chop the middle part of the chive flowers and cook them in your dish for around two minutes.
Chive flowers - not only edible, also decorative
- The whole chive blossoms are optically made to decorate salads, cold cuts, cheese platters, meat dishes or light vegetable dishes effectively and sensationally.
- In combination with flowers of the nasturtium and flowers of the daisy you can create magical decorations that are edible and tasty.
- Chive flowers also look very nice when you combine them with chickweed flowers. These flowers are also edible and delicious.
If you want to save the chive flowers for the winter, then you can dry the flowers and keep them airtight.
