• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content

The Botanical Kitchen

Recipes, travel and the occasional rant

  • Home
  • Recipes
  • Travels
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • About
  • Contact

A Guide To Edible Flowers

27th April 2013 By Urvashi Roe Leave a Comment

I was inspired by a visit to the flower market today.  I saw wonderful tulips in all sorts of colours and got very excited about using them again for summer dinner parties.

I also came across this amazing infographic which does a lovely job of summarising popular edible flowers.  You’ll find this and lots of other brilliant illustrations at Illustrated Bites 

Edible flowers infographic

Related articles
  • Cooking with edible flowers – a history (lovefood.com)
  • 6 Edible Flower Recipe Ideas (theflyingfugu.com)
  • Cooking with edible flowers (utsandiego.com)
  • Edible Flowers for Spring (thedailysouth.southernliving.com)

Related

Filed Under: Random Thoughts Tagged With: edible flowers, flower, infographic

Previous Post: « Lethal Botanicals
Next Post: Vanilla – A Visit To Eric Lanlard’s Cake Boy Boutique »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Sally says

    28th April 2013 at 3:04 pm

    Wow – never knew you could eat lilac. Great resource

    Reply
    • Urvashi Roe says

      29th April 2013 at 9:52 pm

      That was a new one on me too

      Reply
      • tracy says

        29th April 2013 at 10:21 pm

        I want to try lilac too. They aren’t in bloom yet in Syracuse, NY…but soon I hope.

        Reply
        • Urvashi Roe says

          29th April 2013 at 10:36 pm

          I think they’d be lovely sprinkled over a salad or perhaps deep fried whole like fiddlehead fern fritters?

          Reply
  2. Sarah says

    28th April 2013 at 9:49 pm

    Our local deli sells jars of hibiscus flowers and recommends serving them in glasses of champagne – haven’t tried this yet, but one day…

    Reply
    • Urvashi Roe says

      29th April 2013 at 12:20 pm

      That tastes awesome! I’ve got a jar of those too. Lovely alcoholly flower when you get to the bottom of the glass!

      Reply
  3. Jaime says

    29th April 2013 at 3:18 pm

    This is a brilliant guide, I love the info!! Thanks Urvashi xx

    Reply
    • Urvashi Roe says

      29th April 2013 at 9:52 pm

      You;re welcome. was too up my street not to reblog the image. lovely illustration

      Reply
  4. Blissfully Vintage says

    29th April 2013 at 8:19 pm

    I love using lavender and rose petals from my garden but would like to experiment with some more flowers in my baking. These pictures are beautiful and give a lovely guide!

    Reply
    • Urvashi Roe says

      29th April 2013 at 9:53 pm

      Have you tried geraniums? I made some jelly from it last year. Smelled amazing! Tasted OK but the smell kept me going all autumn as that summer smell!

      Reply
      • Blissfully Vintage says

        30th April 2013 at 7:26 pm

        No I haven’t, but I do grow geraniums in the garden and they are so pretty. I will try some jelly – sounds lovely!

        Reply
  5. Choclette says

    2nd May 2013 at 1:51 pm

    That is one very lovely guide. I use edible flowers as regularly as I can but I’m not aware of everything that might be edible. Luckily I just won a book on cooking with edible flowers, so I’m looking forward to receiving it.

    Reply
    • Urvashi Roe says

      3rd May 2013 at 7:26 am

      Cool which book?

      Reply
  6. thefoodsage says

    5th May 2013 at 1:11 pm

    What’s not to love about edible flowers? I recently made Champagne jelly with hibiscus flowers … although they were bought in a jar in syrup! You have, however, inspired to source them fresh and work them into the recipe. Lovely post. Really. Lovely.

    Reply
    • Urvashi Roe says

      6th May 2013 at 3:45 pm

      Thank you 🙂

      Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




Hi I'm Urvashi!

I love food. This blog is a little glimpse into my foodie world which is an escape from two teenage girls, a busy job and my little cafe.

Connect With Me

  • Facebook
  • Google+
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Follow Me On Instagram!

Instagram has returned invalid data.

RECEIVE NEW POSTS BY EMAIL!

Copyright © 2022 Urvashi Roe · All Rights Reserved · Log in