Description
- ✔ Blue Poppy Seed is the dried, kidney-shaped seed of the annual Papaver somniferum. The seeds are very small in size, slate blue in colour (European) or white (Asian) and are nut-like in flavour.
- ✔ Poppy Seed is used to top breads and rolls, and added to vegetables and salad dressings. Turkish cuisine uses toasted Poppy Seeds, whilst Indian and Turkish spice blends rely on crushed Poppy Seeds for flavour and texture.
- ✔ Best of all is Poppy produced from the Netherlands but they are also produced in Australia, Romania and Turkey. The Dutch variety, noted for its uniform slate blue colour, is recognised as the best quality blue poppy seed but there is very little difference in flavour between the blue and white poppy seed types and it is rather a question of aesthetics in their choice.
Blue Poppy Seeds for dressing and baking
