- Plant
- Allium schoenoprasum
- Edible parts
- Leaves and flowers
Try it in the kitchen
Scatter chopped chive leaves over a finished vegetable soup, or add the flowers to a simple salad. Leaves and flowers can both be used as garnishes.
In Südtirol.info’s cheese-canederli recipe, chopped chives go into the dumplings and are added again as a finishing garnish.
Leaves for chopping, flowers for garnish
Choose culinary chives for the part you plan to use, leaves or flowers. The botanical name Allium schoenoprasum helps identify the plant when a nursery or grower uses several allium names.
