How To Eat Artichoke? With sauce, dip or vinaigrette?
How to eat artichoke? An artichoke is a flower bud, a flower bud of a thistle. In the countries around the Mediterranean, artichoke is eaten regularly. The taste is flat to slightly bitter. That is why the artichoke is always dipped in a sauce or vinaigrette, but how can you eat an artichoke?
How To Eat Artichoke?
After cooking, first, peel off the leaves. You eat this by scraping off the pulp with your front teeth. You eat the middle leaves completely. You throw away the hay, the blades, and cut the soil into pieces and it is honorable.
As you probably know, cooking and preparing an artichoke is a chore. If you don’t know how to do this, you can read our blog ‘ How to Cook and Clean Artichoke? ‘ read. It is a surprising way of preparing. Now that it is cooked you can eat it.
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Artichoke Food
You don’t just eat an artichoke. You eat an artichoke in a special way! The artichoke is also known as a royal vegetable, just like the asparagus.
An artichoke has three parts of which you can eat two, namely the leaves and the bottom. You remove the hay and throw it away. See the photo below.
After cooking, the artichoke is disassembled. First, you peel off the leaves and put them in a bowl. Eventually, you see the hay and you remove it with a spoon. Then you keep the bottom and cut it into pieces and put it in a bowl.
The food goes in three phases:
Browse
You start with the scales. Peel these leaves off the artichoke. A small tug should be enough. When the artichoke is well cooked, the leaves will come loose. You can dip these leaves in a sauce, mustard, mayonnaise or butter.
Then you scrape the pulp off the leaf with your front teeth. You keep doing this until all the pulp is gone. You can also do this with the inner leaves, but you can eat these leaves whole so how not to delete them.
Hay
The further you get to the core of the artichoke, the softer the leaves until you get to the hay. These are hairy blades that you cannot eat. This hay is actually the petals. If you put the artichoke in water after purchase, the flowers will probably come out. Of course, you can’t eat artichoke anymore.
You can remove this hay with your hands or you can use a spoon. You can also scrape it off with a knife. You throw this hay away.
Bottom
After removing the hay, the bottom remains. This bottom is very soft and can easily be cut into pieces. You can dip the bottom in a sauce again and eat it.
Whatever you do with artichoke and however you plan to eat it, make it a party. This vegetable just deserves that.
Artichoke Dip
As mentioned, artichoke food is often dipped in a sauce or vinaigrette. Or simply with vegetable butter or herb butter is also delicious. In addition, a mustard sauce tastes great with artichoke. And of course garlic sauce, this should not be forgotten. And aioli is also a good option. There are plenty of options.
It is eaten like this because artichoke has a rather bland, soft and slightly bitter taste. A dipping sauce gives more flavor to your artichoke and you can choose the flavors you like.
Artichoke Sauce
You can of course also make a special sauce for the artichoke yourself and it does not have to be difficult, for example a tasty garlic sauce. To do this, take the following ingredients:
- 3 full tablespoons of mayonnaise
- 3 tablespoons of water
- 1 clove Garlic
- Pinch of salt and pepper
- a little parsley and chives
The preparation is simple. Put everything in a bowl and mix well. For more garlic sauces you can also read our blog ‘ How to Make Garlic Sauce? Read multiple variants.
Artichoke Vinaigrette
A vinaigrette is also wonderfully soft with an artichoke. You can buy it or make it yourself. I give here a simple mustard vinaigrette recipe. You need the following ingredients:
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp vinegar or lemon juice
- 1 tbsp mustard
- Pepper and salt
- 2 tsp agave syrup (AH) or sugar
Even now the preparation is simple. Mix everything together until you have a smooth, even sauce. You can find more vinaigrette recipes in our blog ‘ How To Make Vinaigrette? 10 ways! ‘. Pick your favorite and get started.
