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- A tasty caper substitute: chive buds
- Chive flowers caper
- What do the wrong capers taste like?
- Tips & Tricks
A tasty caper substitute: chive buds
Most people just use the fresh stems of the chives and throw away buds and flowers. However, you should not do that because the flowers are not only edible, their buds can also be wonderful as a caper replacement insert.
Chive flowers caper
Use only firmly closed and clean flower buds to insert the chive buds. Pick them early in the morning as possible, because at this time the content of essential oils is highest - the more aromatic your false capers. And so the flower capers are prepared:
What do the wrong capers taste like?
The wrong capers can be used exactly like real capers and taste in numerous savory dishes with fish, meat or cheese, but also to pasta or in salads. Incidentally, the freshly harvested flowers of chives can be used to garnish or as a substitute for chives - they have a very intensive, kilogram-typical aroma, which is both sweeter and (thanks to the contained nectar) sweeter than that of the culms.
Tips & Tricks
Not only chive buds taste delicious with cheese, fish, meat or pasta dishes, you can also put other buds of edible flowers in the described way. For example, the flower buds of wild herbs such as daisies, dandelions or wild garlic, as well as the buds of nasturtium and elderflower blossoms are perfect. However, it is important to collect only clean and healthy buds - not necessarily from the roadside - and to process them as fresh as possible.
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