Side dishes: Chinese garlic chive flowers can be served as a standalone side dish, lightly seasoned with salt or soy sauce.

vegetable stocks, soups, creamy sauces, potato dishes and omelettes, adding the herb to the dish just before serving. Purple-blue chive flowers are also eaten and used as a garnish.

Top each quinoa cake with a dollop of cold basil chice cream cream and serve with warm red pepper sauce on the side. Garnish with fresh chives and microgreens.