Green salad is always a side dish with our evening meals. I often use olive oil & vinegar and herbal salt. Tropaeolum flowers or as we call them in Austria, "Kapuzinerkressen" are always growing in our garden during the entire summer.
Nutrition Fact: All parts of Tropaeolum majus are edible. The flower has most often been consumed, making for an especially ornamental salad ingredient; it has a slightly peppery taste reminiscent of watercress, and is also used in stir fry. The flowers contain about 130 mg vitamin C per 100 grams (3.5 oz), about the same amount as is contained in parsley. Moreover, they contain up to 45 mg of lutein per 100 g,which is the highest amount found in any edible plant. The unripe seed pods can be harvested and dropped into spiced vinegar to produce a condiment and garnish, sometimes used in place of capers. (Source)
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