Eat Tulips

Tulips can add a mild flavor and a crunchy texture to a dish. You can add tulips to foods like tuna and salad for extra texture and a splash of flavor. Tulips can also be used in your own dishes or cocktail recipes. Make sure you choose the right tulips for the taste and flavor you're trying to create.

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Adding Tulips to Other Foods

1. Mix tulips into tuna. Tuna salad can be a healthy lunch for any day of the week. To add tulips to tuna salad, pluck the petals from the tulip bulbs. Then, cut off about a quarter inch from the bottom of the petals. You can then mix the tulips into your other ingredients in tuna salad.
   • You can use whatever you want in your tuna salad, but tulips go great with spices like curry powder and black paper. Things like cucumber and celery stalks also mix great with tulips.
2. Add tulip petals to salad. If you're a big salad eater, a few tulip petals can brighten up and add texture to a dull salad. To use tulips in a salad, simply pluck out as many petals as you need and sprinkle them into your greens. Cut off the bottom quarter of tulip petals where they attached to the bulb.
   • Tulips add different flavor to a salad depending on when they were harvested. Tulips harvested during cold months will provide a sweeter flavor.
   • Specific types of tulips provide specific flavor. Oakleaf tulips add an apple-like taste, while French sorrel tulips leave a strong citrus flavor.
3. Use tulips as bowls for ice cream. A tulip's flower head can be separated from the stalk and shaped into a bowl for ice cream. Prop up the flower head like a champagne flute and then place your choice of ice cream in the flowers.
   • You do not need to eat the tulip flowers with ice cream. It will add flavor simply by holding the tulip.

Making Snacks with Tulips

1. Make stuffed tulips as an appetizer. You can stuff and cook a tulip's flower head with a variety of ingredients for a tasty appetizer. Mix two tablespoons (30 mL) of lemon juice with about a tablespoon (15 mL) of minced chives and fresh mint or dill, as well as a dash of cayenne pepper. Mix this flavoring into three ounces (90 mL) of cream cheese and a cup (240 mL) of flaked crab meat. Boil about 25 asparagus spears until tender and cut them into five inch pieces. Fill tulip bulbs with about half a cup (120 mL) of your crab mixture and then garnish the stuffed tulips with asparagus. Then, arrange your tulip bulbs on a tray and serve.
   • This is a great appetizer to serve at parties.
2. Make meatballs with tulips. Cook a cup (240 mL) of any brown beans, such as pinto beans, and tulip petals over the stove and let them cool. Then, mix the beans into a fine paste using a spoon or electronic mixer. Fry an onion and mix it into the paste and then add marjoram and salt to taste. Roll the mixture into bulbs to make tulip meatballs. Cook the balls over the stove, using only a small amount of cooking oil.
3. Create a cocktail with tulips. To add a flowery flavor to a cocktail, use tulips. Any cocktail can be garnished with a few tulip petals when you get done mixing your ingredients. Not only does this add flavor, it makes the drink look attractive.
   • You could mix two ounces of blueberry vodka with an ounce of pink lemonade. Mix the ingredients together and pour the drink into glasses filled with with ice. Add tulip petals to the top of the drinks for an attractive garnish.

Selecting the Right Tulips to Eat

1. Choose strong scented tulips. The scent of a tulip will help you determine if it's good to eat. Tulips picked earlier in the year have a stronger smell, and tend to taste like peas. Different subtypes of tulips also come with their own unique flavor and scent, which can help you choose tulips for cooking.
   •  Couleur Cardinal tulips have a sweet, fruity fragrance and provide a fruity, plum-like smell to match.
   • Orange tulips smell quite strong and produce produce a strong sherbet flavor.
   • For a creamier flavor, go for the soft scented City of Vancouver tulip.
2. Pick the right color for the flavor you want. The color of a tulip's petals can also indicate flavor. Red tulips tend to have a sweet flavor. White tulips provide a somewhat spicy flavor. Yellows taste a little bitter, like broccoli. Dark purple or black tulips taste like have a mild tang and a crunchy flavor.
3. Choose the right texture. The larger the petal, the stiffer the texture. Peony and parrot type tulips tend to be chewier.
   • When choosing texture, weigh in other factors like color. If you want something to add to a salad, for example, look for larger petals colored in a more vegetable-like flavor, such as yellow tulips.
4. Stop eating tulips if you experience an allergic reaction. Some people do not take well to tulips. If you experience symptoms of an allergic reaction, such as a closed up throat or a rash, stop eating tulips right away. If symptoms don't clear up, see your doctor for evaluation.

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See also

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