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There are many fresh chives recipes to choose from, whether you are a flexitarian, a meat-eater or a vegetarian. What are chives? How do you prepare them? This is where you can find out more about both fresh and dried chives.
Chives Recipes
Cooking with a chive flavour often adds something pungent yet subtle to many dishes. The distinctive taste of chives is unmistakable without being too in-your-face, as these delicious recipe ideas make clear.
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Easy Chives Recipes
Cooking with chives shouldn’t mean getting too involved with complicated steps. That’s why these easy chive dishes are such a delight, often being suitable for complete novices in the kitchen.
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High-Protein Chives Recipes
When you want to keep your protein intake up, chive recipes can provide the right balance of nutrients and flavours you’re looking for. Check out our recipe collection, which has dishes suited to both dried and fresh chives.
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Family-Friendly Chives Recipes
Chives go well in many dishes, which kids and adults will both love in equal measure. The tanginess of chives isn’t always as pungent as other similar ingredients, like scallion or rocket, so it’s a good ingredient for family-friendly cooking.
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Vegetarian Chives Recipes
Chives are wonderful ingredients for vegetarian dishes. Although chives are often paired with fish and eggs, they suit true veggie food, too. For chives recipes vegetarians will love, look no further than this collection.
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Quick Chives Recipes
Preparing chives takes no time. These quick recipes all use chives, and to be even more rapid in your preparation time, you can always use dried chives, which take no time at all.
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Calorie Smart Chives Recipes
If you are keeping an eye on your calorie intake, then this smart collection of low-calorie dishes will be the one you are looking for. Chives are healthy and nutritious, after all.
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Chives Recipe FAQs
What are chives?
Chives are a type of allium plant, meaning they’re in the same family as garlic, onion and leeks. They grow in a similar fashion from a bulb, with green leaves extending upward: the part that is eaten
What do chives taste like?
Chives taste a little like spring onions but with a less intense, more subtle flavour. They are often compared to shallots or leeks with a fresh zinginess to their taste.
Do you eat chives raw or cooked?
Chives can be cooked, and they’re sometimes used like a herb in stews or casseroles. However, they’re best eaten raw when the subtlety of their flavour is at its best.
How to grow chives
Sew chive seeds with a fair amount of spacing in a tray and then pick the seedlings out to prevent overcrowding. After they’re a few centimetres tall, pot them into gritting soil with very good drainage.
What do chives look like?
Chives tend to grow in clumps with verdant stems that grow vertically. The stems get a little thicker lower down, where they can have a whitish hue.
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