Don’t ever forget to remove the reproductive organs first (these are bitterly unpalatable). You can cook the flowers in tempura as described below, but they are also delicious stuffed with a cream cheese, fresh herbs and chili mix and then dipped into whisked eggs, and then into polenta, shallow fried.
[…] to a frittata, tempuraed as I mentioned here and here or stuffed and shallow fried as I mentioned here. The thing to remember is that it is perfectly all right to remove the female flowers to eat while […]