How to Eat Dandelion Flowers
This is a follow-up article to the Dandelion Greens – The Perfect Spring Survival Food article I recently wrote.
If you’ve already tried preparing the dandelion greens from the prior article than you know how delicious this wild plant can be.
In this article I wanted to quickly present you with another pair of delicious recipes using a different part of this common every-day plant: the flowers.
Pickled Dandelion Flower Buds
I’d like to thank Rosalee de la Foret for this recipe!
For this recipe, you’ll want to harvest the flower buds when they are still tightly closed — before they ever opened.
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup onions
- 3 tablespoons fresh minced ginger
- 4-5 garlic cloves
- 1 cup dandelion flower buds
- apple cider vinegar
- tamari sauce
The Process:
Rinse the flower buds well and place into a pint jar with the onions, garlic, and ginger. Fill halfway with the apple-cider vinegar and then fill halfway with the tamari. Cover with a plastic lid or a metal lid with a buffer (vinegar will corrode the metal lid). Let sit for three weeks and then enjoy on salads, as a snack, or on tuna fish sandwiches.
Dandelion Fritters
Ingredients for the Batter:
- 1/2 cup of flour
- 1/2 cup of milk
- one teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 cup cornmeal
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon of honey
The Process:
There are different ways of making this recipe.
As I mention throughout this site, the more you can practice these skills — whether it be learning to identify and prepare wild edibles to learning different off-the-grid medical treatments — during tranquil times, the better off you’ll be if you are faced with serious hardships during times of trial.
How’s that saying go? “The more we sweat in times of peace the less we bleed in times of war.” There’s a lot of wisdom to that quote. Now get out there and practice!
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Thanks for the suggestions! I’ve recently discovered that, though I can’t stand the bitterness of dandelion greens (and I eat a lot of bitter things!), dandelion flowers are sweeter and have a slightly bananaish flavor to them. I’ve been eating them with pinchfulls of sunflower seeds, or scrambling them with eggs and onion. I wonder how the nutritional content of the flower differs from that of the plants leaves?
I read the information in this site twice. I like the way the fritters look in the first pic, that’s
the best of all of them. However. I still have a hard time convincing myself that the
flowers are edible. I know that wine and tea are made from the flowers, tea is made from
the greens too. I was thinking of doing dandelion tea with the flowers. I hear that they are
sweet and it’s yummy. I will have to check with my doctor about eating them though.
I had renal failure before, and now I have a kidney, it’s going to be 7 years in June.
Anyway, they say that when you are dealing with any herbs to check with your doctor to
make sure it’s safe for you. I know they are edible and good for you, but sometimes you
can’t have herbs, it differs, so when I have my next appointment. I’ll ask him if I should
shy away or give it the thumbs up, they are fresh off grass. so that matters.
I did have a chamomile tea about, oh. I’d say it’s been about a month. My mother got the
tea in a bag of goodies for Christmas, but she doesn’t like tea, so I started drinking it, can’t
remember full name, but ingreedients were: (Chamomile,Dandelion,Licorice).
The tea was yummy, and I acually consumed some dandelion, however, it’s factory
made, so you see my predicament..
great site!
CMS,
Definitely seek your doctor’s advice before consuming anything you may be questioning (especially wild herbs). I’d love to hear what he has to say so be sure to check in sometime after you get an update.