Greetings everybody. So today I'm going to talk about edible flowers
This is something that I've been asked about a little bit have I tried edible flowers?
But I do an episode of edible flowers. yes, but the problem is edible flowers are kind of a tricky thing because they're so
perishable
And in new york where I live in new york city. Sometimes they do show up at high-end markets
but
Even then you'll be spending like ten dollars for a little packet of them. And usually they're
not looking so great. This is more something that makes sense if you're gonna forage it or if you're going to grow it yourself
Well, thankfully
somebody was kind enough to send me some edible flowers to review and
very
Carefully packaged them and sent them across the country all the way from california
So thank you to Sam and Arun for sending this to me. I have three different
varieties of edible flowers which I'm gonna try and the first one is one that
I've never even heard about
these are
I looked this up a butylons. I just dropped some on the floor. That's good, abutalons
Are a very pretty flower got
a nice dark color on the inside but
This nice orange color on the outside. They're pretty
Resilient too i'm not these fared pretty well being sent across the country
And I can see why and these are edible you can eat these ones. Typically how they're used are just
mixed raw into salads
But you can also cook with them if you if you'd like, so I'm gonna try just eating them raw on their own
And by the way, I should probably comment on the smell right? It's a flower. It has a mild scent
and it's a little bit
appley
A little bit like an apple a green apple smell
All right, so I'm going to try a petal
That's pretty
Good, it's mild
But actually has a flavor similar to that smell it tastes kind of like apples
The texture on it
It's pretty firm too. It's like chewing on
a leaf of baby spinach
Maybe a little bit more tough
I can see taking a whole bunch of those flowers and mixing them in with other
Greens like mixed greens, put a little bit of dressing on that and that'd be really good
Even on its own just raw like that. There is a nice sweetness to it
it's not super high because I mean it's a very delicate flavor but it is there and say the sweetness is
A three three out of ten maybe a two something like that. It's a little bit difficult
This is such a mild taste, but there is a nice little sweetness there next hibiscus
And hibiscus is one that i've reviewed before but not the flower. I reviewed the the calyx
Whenever you have hibiscus tea or hibiscus juice or anything like that. That's not a fruit
That is not that is not a pedal. That is the
calyx of of a flower should be like the
bottom little bit
Now these are a little bit
floppier
not quite as hardy as the
butylans
These ones did get a little bit wilty
But it's not bad
It doesn't taste like it's gone bad
the flavor on this is
Extremely mild. It doesn't really taste like much of anything. I guess kind of like lettuce like a very very mild
lettuce
but
No sweetness
Really? It's not much there
But this is something where if you grow hibiscus
Why not pick them mix them in with a salad they look really nice
so
It would be maybe not the best thing to eat a big bowl of
but
To
garnish a plate
with something that you can eat
That is a cool way to do it. So this is jasmine and you can see here that
There are no flowers on it
There were flowers on it when they sent it to me actually when they sent it to me and I open up the box
It looked fine
but then
I put these in the fridge until I would be able to review it
just like a few hours and then when I went to get this all the
Flowers have just popped off
So a very delicate one. Yeah the flowers on this one did not fare
as well and
Yeah, it's mostly my fault. I guess I guess this is probably one
Where you want to eat it right away right off the plant. They smell really really good
Very sweet strong floral smell to it
That's not one where I would want to eat that raw
That's one where I would put that
in a tea
in a small amount
It's edible, but it tastes like perfume
so
eating it raw
Not not my ideal way of using it although I have read that people do use it in in salad
Sometimes it might be good to use
Sparingly they put a couple flowers in some jam or something and it'll add a little extra floral taste to it
But they're pretty powerful
and that flavor is
It tastes like flower petals. It tastes like grandma's perfume
I mean jasmine tea is a thing jasmine team if you've had jasmine tea, it's really really good
I imagine it does not use a whole ton of those petals because that is that is quite strong
so that was pretty interesting to try especially like these the
Abutillians a abutulons. I forget what it is already. these ones super tasty. Nice aptly taste I could see
making something with these cooking with them would be good, but even just eating like a salad made up of these
Be really nice the hibiscus
Not much flavor there, but they're beautiful. It'd be a really great way to decorate a plate and the jasmine super good
As a seasoning, but not straight out
but what this shows me is the kind of direction flower petals can give you
When I think of eating a flower petal, I just imagine it's going to taste like soap
It's not the case some of these taste really good like fruit some of them
Are good as a spice some of them are just really pretty and edible. So that's pretty cool to try all that
Thanks again to Sam and Arun for sending these to me and , I'll see you guys next time. Goodbye
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