Elephant garlic
Sanne Vermeulen2022-06-13T11:15:14+02:00As the name suggests, elephant garlic is an oversized garlic variety. The taste is slightly less sharp than the original. Funny detail: elephant garlic is more related to leek than garlic.
As the name suggests, elephant garlic is an oversized garlic variety. The taste is slightly less sharp than the original. Funny detail: elephant garlic is more related to leek than garlic.
Meet black garlic's sister, black onion. For this, yellow onions are placed in ovens for weeks. The result is a black, fermented onion bursting with healthy properties. Unique and soft in taste, creamy in texture. The taste is best described as: subtle hints of soy, balsamic and raisins. This makes black onion a delicious delicacy.
This halved sweet potato is steamed and vacuum packed, preserving all vitamins, nutritional values and flavour. They only need 2 minutes in the microwave or 10 minutes in the oven.
A feast for the eye and for the mouth, these rainbow radishes. Pink, white and purple, perfectly round radishes with velvety, green leaves. The white variety is slightly spicier than the red and purple variety. Did you know that you can also finely chop the radish leaves and use them in a salad?
Mini eggplant may be small in size, but they're big in flavour! There is a purple variety, a purple-white striped variety (graffiti) and a green variety (Thai Green Tomato). Mini eggplants are great to fill with, for example, minced meat or vegetables.
This beautiful tuber has a sweet taste and a low starch content. This gives a less starchy texture than normal potatoes. Oca is very versatile, so it can be used in both sweet and savoury dishes. Fresh oca has a crispy texture that is comparable to carrots. Oca can be white, orange, red, pink and purple of colour.
Mashua are tubers that can be eaten boiled or used in soups. Due to their sharp taste, they are not suitable to eat in a raw condition. Mashua tubers are available in different shapes and colours. The potatoes are very goodlooking; creamy white to yellow with pink to dark purple eyes.
Sea lavender belongs to the sea vegetable. This plant cannot survive without salt water. A delicious salty vegetable, which goes well with fish dishes. They are also called sea aster.
Cordifole is a family of ice lettuce and has a fresh and slightly sour lemon flavor. The leaves are sturdy and heart-shaped.
Shanghai pak choi is a Chinese leafy vegetable and is related to the Chinese cabbage and can be used raw and cooked. Ideal for Asian wok meals, for example with salmon and sweet and sour sauce.
Chayote is a green-skinned smooth pear-shaped fruit, about 7-10 cm in size. The pulp of chayote is greenish-white and the taste is a bit like a cucumber.
Yellow beans are delicious beans that turn yellow when they turn ripe. They resemble normal green beans but are creamier and have a softer taste.
Salicornia (also called samphire) is a crunchy sea vegetable. The taste is salty and also resembles spinach. The plants grow in salt swamps, on beaches and between mangroves.
Puna Yams are often confused with sweet potatoes, but in reality they are not even remotely related. Yams are tubers that grow mainly on the African continent and have a slightly sweet and starchy taste. Raw yams are slightly poisonous. Fortunately, that problem is quickly resolved when they are heated and you can eat this delicious vegetable without any problems.
Do you prefer a slightly milder onion? Get yourself a red onion. This onion is crunchy, slightly sweet and has a bitter aftertaste. They cause fewer tears while cutting and have a less intense odor after eating.
The onion, like leeks, garlic and chives, belongs to the onion family. The yellow onion has a golden, yellow skin and is white inside. The flesh is firm and has a spicy taste.
Wakamé is also known as sea fern and has an olive green to brown color, with a rubbery, long and smooth single leaves with wavy edges. The sea vegetable can grow up to two meters high. Wakamé is often processed into a delicious Japanese seaweed salad.
Garlic is braided immediately after harvest, when the green foliage is still fresh. After this, the garlic strands are dried and will be ready for sale. Garlic strands consist of bulbs with up to 20 cloves. Garlic provides a lot of taste and is an important ingredient in the Asian and Mediterranean cuisine.
Colored radish is native to China and is 5 centimeters bigger than the regular radish. The radish is white on the outside, but on the inside it can be red, blue, green, pink or pink-green. The pink-green variety is also called watermelon radish.
For the love of salt, the surprising effect of combining land and sea. Sea Purslane has a slight oil looking, sea salt taste.
For the love of salt, the surprising effect of combining land and sea. Sea Oyster Leaves have a salty taste.
For the love of salt, the surprising effect of combining land and sea. Sea Okahijki has first a peppery taste and it become salts afterwards.
For the love of salt, the surprising effect of combining land and sea. Sea Nibbels have a soft and smooth taste with a hint of sea salt.
For the love of salt, the surprising effect of combining land and sea. Sea Flowers Rock Fennel has a hint of lemon and fennel with a slight mild asparagus taste.
For the love of salt, the surprising effect of combining land and sea. Sea Flowers Oyster have a sweet taste in combination with salt.
For the love of salt, the surprising effect of combining land and sea. Sea Buchshoorn has a slight peppery, nutty taste with a salty bite.
For the love of salt, the surprising effect of combining land and sea. Sea Beets have a salty, spinach taste in combination with a mild beetroots flavour and earthy aroma.
Green asparagus has a slightly firmer taste than the white variety. Another nice addition is the fact that you don’t have to peel them. Green asparagus owes their color to the fact that they grow above the ground and have therefore grown in sunlight in contrast to the white asparagus.
Majii® Leaves is the name for an edible leaf.
Moai Caviar is known as ‘Umibudo’, the Japanese word for ‘Sea Grapes’ or ‘Green Caviar’. An edible seaweed with little bubbles on its stems, which remind of a small green cluster of grapes or fish roe. The bubbles break easily on the tongue, releasing a slightly salty taste of southern sea freshness. When used raw it is a visually attractive ingredient with a gel-like, aqueous mouth-feeling.
Oyster Leaves have a slight salty taste that highly resembles oysters and are therefore often refered to as Vegetarian Oysters.
Sea Fennel has a number of uses in the culinary field. Working with Sea fennel requires precise dosage due to its concentrated aromas. When it is blanched, the full asparagus flavour is most evident.
Mini carrots are available in a variety of colours, such as orange, purple and yellow. It is a root vegetable that grows under the ground. You can recognize the carrot by the elongated, round stem which is about 10 to 12 centimetres long. Mini carrots have a sweet taste and a crunchy texture.
The green baby asparagus tips are the young tips of the large, green asparagus. They have a refined and delicate flavour. Besides that, they are wonderfully tender and crunchy.
This beautiful tuber has a sweet taste and low starch level. This gives it a less starchy texture than potatoes. Oca is very versatile, so it can be used in both sweet and savoury dishes. Fresh oca has a crunchy texture that is comparable to carrot. The finger shaped tubers can be white, orange, red, pink and purple.
Peas grow with 10 peas at a time in a pod. They are harvested unripe because the sugar in the pea has not yet been converted into starch, which makes them taste nice and sweet.
The sea rosemary is the briny brother of the domestic rosemary. In addition, the aromatic taste can also be compared to rosemary. Sea rosemary does not grow in the water, but along the coast, which explains the salty flavour.
Baby corn are the delicious, unripe cobs of the corn plant. The baby corn is harvested 1-2 days after the corn leaf appeared. The inside of the cob is not hardened yet, so you can eat the mini corn in a whole.
Bimi® or mini broccoli is a vegetable which is related to the well known broccoli. It is also called asparagus broccoli because of its sweet taste. It's the perfect dipping vegetable!
Flower Sprouts® are a cross between kale and Brussels sprouts. They own their nutty taste to kale and a little bitterness to Brussels sprouts, a delicious combination! These green-purple vegetables look fantastic and they are very versatile.
Due to their small size, this mini version of the zucchini has a beautiful, decorative appearance and a high 'cute factor'. Just like normal zucchini, the taste is quite neutral, but the mini variety tastes slightly softer. There is a round version available and a slim version. Their small size makes them ideal for preparing and eating whole.
Savoy cabbage is a delicious and healthy type of cabbage. The Savoy cabbage is very compact and can be recognized by the bumpy leaves with curled edges. It is also one of the oldest cabbage varieties in the world.
The taste of the mini parsnip is a true delicacy. Intense, aromatic and sweet. This firm white root is nice and crunchy and can be prepared in countless ways.
Mini turnips are white-purple coloured round-shaped roots. The taste of this mini vegetables is powerful and sharp. After cooking, the sharp taste decreases a bit.
Mini fennel has a delicious, crunchy texture and an anise-like taste. It is a tasty and decorative mini vegetable. It belongs to the same family as celery, chervil, carrot and parsley: the umbellifers.
Chiconettes are small chicory heads with a rich flavor. Chiconettes owe their color to the fact that they are grown in the dark. Because light does not reach the leaves, the plant does not produce any green dye.
Mini cauliflower is a smaller version of the regular cauliflower. The mini cauliflower is about the size of a billiard ball and has a wonderfully soft taste. They come in different colors and variants: purple, orange, white and romanesco!
Mini cabbages are smaller versions of regular cabbage. Mini cabbage is very tasty and very decorative due to its small size. It is therefore nice to use the cabbages in a whole or halved. There are red, green and white cabbages.
These cute little peppers are the smaller versions of the larger blocky variety. They are a bit sweeter than the large variety. We have them in the green, red, orange and yellow colour!
The mini beet is the smaller version of a normal beet. Available in beautiful colors such as yellow, red and chioggia. Mini beets have a slightly finer structure than the normal version and the taste is somewhat stronger.
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The Netherlands
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