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- Do not just refine salads with pansies
- Only use untreated flowers
- Possible uses in the kitchen
- Tips & Tricks
Pansies are edible and a nice decoration for desserts and co.
Do not just refine salads with pansies
The petals of the pansies are edible. With fresh flowers you can refine salads. The candied flowers make your holiday cake an eye-catcher. Not only as a decoration, but also in terms of taste, the colorful flowers have a lot to offer.
The flowers of all violet species have a pleasant sweetness, with the Duftveilchen (lat. Viola odorata) has the finest aroma. This evergreen perennial frequently grows in the gardens without being perceived as a true garden plant with its inconspicuous violet-blue flowers. It multiplies by self-sowing and aboveground foothills. The ordinary pansies and horned violets are useful as decoration and as an ingredient in the kitchen.
Only use untreated flowers
The flowers of the self-made pansies can be used without hesitation in food preparation. With wild pansies you should take care that you do not pick these near busy roads, because there is a risk of particulate matter and pollution. In the case of ready-bought plants, caution should be exercised when consuming fresh flowers, as fertilizers or chemical pesticides are usually used in their rearing.
Possible uses in the kitchen
The flowers intended for consumption should always be picked quite fresh, as they soon look withered and quickly lose their aroma. The delicate flowers should not be washed before, so as not to be unsightly and to keep the sweet pollen. The following uses are available for the delicious flowers:
For candying, douse the flowers in a mixture of egg white and water and then dust them with powdered sugar. The pretreated flowers are left to dry in the oven overnight or at about 50 ° C for about 2 hours.
Tips & Tricks
Many wild forms of the viola once counted as medicinal plants. Even today, homeopathic healing is attributed to them in alternative medicine. Roots and seeds can be laxative (even in cats) or cause nausea, but no plant parts of the pansy are poisonous.