When one thinks about food, seldom do we think about edible flowers. But some flowers are not only good to look at, they are also good enough to eat. Feast your eyes on some of their pictures below.

Pan fried Kingfish fillet, zucchini flowers filled with prawn mousse, smoked tomato, capsicum and anchovy salad

Edible Hibiscus Flowers

Chive Flowers and Greens

Squash flowers are used in many dishes in our country. Here and here are some recipes using this flower.

Yu Choy is used like Chinese broccoli or rapini. Recipes using this can be found here and here.

Ice cream stuffed with chocolate with caramel syrup - garnished with a pretty flower, yummy!

Wind down a meal with some tea from flowers. Flowers for tea? Yup! Some of the tea bags you buy at the grocery are filled with flowers such as jasmine and chamomile.

The recipes I linked above were found using our Firefox Search Plugin (download here). Please take note that not all flowers are edible. Some are even poisonous. A list of these inedibles can be found here. Precautions to be taken when using flowers in dishes can be found here.

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