Edible FlowerGuide • Create a signature salad mix with nasturtiums, calendula, bachelor's buttons, and more • Garnish cakes and ice cream with marigolds, dianthus, and violas • Add flavor and aroma to drinks with mint, basil, and borage flowers • Sprinkle rosemary, thyme, and sage flowers on pizza, soups, and other savory dishes • Spice up desserts with monarda, anise hyssop, and Gem marigold flowers An employee-owned company 1-877-564-6697 • Johnnyseeds.com • 955 Benton Avenue, Winslow, Maine 04901 1 Johnny’s Edible Flower Guide provides you with a quick reference for edible flowers, including information about bloom size, flavor profile, and suggested uses. As a grower, edible flowers provide diverse value- added opportunities, perhaps with crops that you are already growing. Chefs use edible flowers to add unique color, texture, and flavor to a number of dishes, and you or a chef can blend in blooms to create a specialized, signature salad mix. Don’t let the term “edible flowers” mislead you — many herbs and vegetables also produce edible blooms that can be added to salads, soups, desserts, and more. Vegetables edible & Fruit blooms Arugula Fava Bean Flavor: Nutty Flavor: Mild bean 1 Great for Salad Mix Bloom Size: 1 /2" long Bloom Size: 1" Use as garnish, or add to salads and sweet and savory Add flowers to salads and dishes savory dishes, or use as garnish on any dish Mustard Pea Strawberry Flavor: Spicy Flavor: Mild pea Flavor: Mild strawberry 1 Great for Salad Mix Great for Salad Mix Bloom Size: 1-1 /2" Bloom Size: 1" Bloom Size: 1" Sprinkle petals on salads or to garnish desserts; use Add flowers to salads and Use in micro mix, salad mix, whole flowers as garnish soups for a spicy accent or to garnish desserts 2 1-877-564-6697 • Johnnyseeds.com • 955 Benton Avenue, Winslow, Maine 04901 edibleHerbs blooms Anise Hyssop Flavor: Sweet anise, mint Bloom Size: 1-3” spikes Both flowers and leaves are edible; use to flavor drinks, tea, ice cream, cake, or use as garnish; use blooms in beef stir-fry or chicken marinade Basil Borage Chives/Garlic Chives Cilantro/Coriander Dill Flavor: Intense basil Flavor: Mild cucumber Flavor: Mild, sweet onion Flavor: Mild cilantro Flavor: Dill 1 3 1 Bloom Size: 1-3” spikes Bloom Size: /2- /4” blooms Bloom Size: 1-1 /2” globes Bloom Size: 2-3” umbels Bloom Size: 2-8” umbels Use in any recipe that calls Add blossoms to salads, or Pull apart florets and Use raw on salads, chicken, Use young flowers to for basil, and to garnish use to garnish cold drinks sprinkle on salads, dips, and spicy Southwestern garnish potato salad, green drinks, salads, soups, pasta, and desserts, or freeze in sauces, soups, stir-fries, and dishes salads, and fish; add umbels and desserts ice cubes pizzas; great addition to to pickles potato salad Fennel Lavender Mexican Mint Marigold Mint Sage Flavor: Sweet anise Flavor: Sweet, fragrant Flavor: Sweet licorice Flavor: Minty Flavor: Mild sage 1 1 1 Bloom Size: 2-8” umbels Bloom Size: /2-1” florets Bloom Size: 1-3” spikes Bloom Size: /2” blooms Bloom Size: /2” blooms on Use florets to garnish savory Use to garnish desserts; Sprinkle on desserts or use Use to garnish salads, soups, 2-4” spikes dishes and desserts; pairs adds a distinct flavor as garnish desserts, and drinks Flower spikes can be well with fish, egg, potato, element in baked goods battered and fried, or use tomato, and beet dishes and tea blooms to garnish salads and pizzas 1-877-564-6697 • Johnnyseeds.com • 955 Benton Avenue, Winslow, Maine 04901 3 Flowersedible blooms Bachelor's Button Calendula Dianthus Flavor: Mild, sweet Flavor: Tangy, slightly bitter Flavor: Mild, clove 1 3 Great for Salad Mix Great for Salad Mix Bloom Size: /2- /4" 1 Bloom Size: 1-1 /2" Bloom Size: 2-3" Use petals to garnish salads, desserts, soups, and Sprinkle petals on salads Use petals in soups, cold drinks; a favorite for and desserts soufflés, rice dishes, and decorating cakes baked goods, and to garnish salads and desserts Hyacinth Bean Marigold, Standard Marigold, Gem Monarda Nasturtium Flavor: Mild bean, sweet Flavor: Spicy, citrusy Flavor: Spicy, citrusy Flavor: Spicy, minty Flavor: Spicy, peppery 1 3 1 Bloom Size: /2- /4" Bloom Size: 1-3" Bloom Size: /2- 1" Great for Salad Mix Great for Salad Mix 1 1 Flowers are eaten raw or Use in salads or as garnish Both leaves and flowers Bloom Size: 1-1 /2" long Bloom Size: 2-2 /2" steamed; use as a garnish for any dish are edible; use in salads, Sprinkle petals over desserts Use leaves, pods, and for salads and desserts desserts, or as garnish for and mild fish; use in green flowers in salads; use as any dish salads, fruit salads, or to garnish; stuff flowers with garnish drinks soft cheese Scarlet Runner Bean Snapdragon Stock Sunflowers Viola Flavor: Bean-like Flavor: Bitter, floral Flavor: Clove, peppery Flavor: Bittersweet Flavor: Wintergreen 1 3 1 Bloom Size: /2- /4" Bloom Size: 1 /2" Great for Salad Mix Bloom Size: 2-8" Great for Salad Mix 1 3 2 Use to garnish salads, soups, Add small amounts to Bloom Size: /2- /4" Fry buds or use petals as Bloom Size: /3-4" and desserts salads, desserts, and drinks a garnish in salads and Use to garnish salads, Use to garnish salads, as a garnish desserts desserts, and drinks desserts, and hors d’oeuvres Copyright © 2019 Johnny’s Selected Seeds. 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