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Arugula (rocket) salad with orange and sesame seeds, garnished with edible marigold flowers.
Brown wholemeal bread with cottage cheese, fresh chive, and chive blossoms.
Ramsons (wild garlic leek ) risotto with Parmesan cheese served with fresh ramsons' leaves and flowers.
Grilled salmon and wild herbs salad with carrot, wild garlic buds, roasted sunflower kernels, chicory, and maple leaves, garnished with edible dandelion and daisy flowers.
Dandelion blossoms fried in batter and garnished with fresh dandelion flowers.
Daylily flowers (also referred to as golden needles) and woody ear mushrooms with sesame seeds.
A vanilla ice-cream scoop garnished with edible pansies set on a warm waffle.
Edible nasturtium flowers with green lettuce leaves, tomatoes, and Parmesan shavings.
Whether used as a fragrant ingredient or vividly hued garnish, adding edible flowers to food can enhance color and flavor to any dish. Indeed, flowers can brighten recipes and make mealtimes positively blossom. And you can also use flowers to prepare a variety of nourishing and healthful drinks too.
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Spring salad with edible pansies, lamb's lettuce, fresh broccoli, and kale.
A herbal tea prepared using pansies and daisies.
Canapés with homemade avocado paste garnished with edible pansies and daisies.
Spring salad with coltsfoot and horseradish, daisies, young dandelion leaves, and a wild green leaf selection.
A fresh green leaf salad of arugula, young spinach, purple chard, watercress, and edible dandelion flowers.
Fresh prawns, asparagus, and broccoli garnished with edible dandelion flowers.
Carrot cake topped with coconut icing and sprinkled with dried beach rose (rosa rugosa) flower petals.
Iced homemade lemonade with a syrup of edible jasmine and honeysuckle.
A vegetable salad with roasted fennel, capers, olives, endive, lettuce, onion, and edible watercress and lavender flowers with orange juice.
A broccoli, celery, and cucumber smoothie with edible lilac flowers.
White sugar mixed and flavored with edible lilac flowers.
Homemade Bundt cake sprinkled with icing sugar and garnished with edible lilac flowers.
Homemade rice balls with edible chrysanthemum flowers, served with green tea.
A fresh mixed salad cup with radish and edible nasturtium flowers and leaves.
A green fruits and vegetables smoothie topped out with edible nasturtium flower.
Crisp bread open sandwiches with butter, fresh cucumber slices, and edible nasturtium flowers.
Cheesecake decorated with red plums and edible pansy flowers.
Shortbread cookies baked with pressed edible pansy and violet flowers.
Jelly made of edible rose (rosa rugosa) petals.
Homemade crème brûlée decorated with dried beach rose (rosa rugosa) flower petals.
A glittery diamond cappuccino decorated with dried beach rose (rosa rugosa) flower petals.
Fried wild garlic buds with roasted sunflower kernels garnished with fresh yellow edible dandelion flowers and white lawn daisy flowers.
Nougat and dried beach rose (rosa rugosa) flower petals, a typical Lebanese sweet dessert.
Watermelon pizza topped with strawberries, blueberries, natural yogurt, and assorted edible flowers, including violets and pansies.
Crispy duck, spelt (dinkel wheat), and pomegranate salad garnished with edible violet flowers.
A herbal iced tea cocktail flavored with violets all mixed with crushed ice.
Champagne made with elderflower blossom.
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Whether used as a fragrant ingredient or vividly hued garnish, adding edible flowers to food can enhance color and flavor to any dish. Indeed, flowers can brighten recipes and make mealtimes positively blossom. And you can also use flowers to prepare a variety of nourishing and healthful drinks too.
Click through for some edible flower recipe ideas and serving suggestions that are almost too pretty to eat.