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Cowslip Creeper: The Thai Flower Stir-Fried With Egg
Cowslip Creeper · ดอกขจร · Telosma cordata
Cowslip Creeper — ดอกขจร (dok-kha-jon) — Telosma cordata.
Thai cooks pick these flower buds while they're still shut and golden, before they open and turn fragrant at night, then fold them into a hot wok with beaten egg. The buds are described as containing protein, fiber, and vitamins C and A, but no pinned food-composition table supports exact amounts; they are always cooked — stir-fried or blanched. The part on your plate is the young flower cluster. Thai cooks pick these flower buds while they are still shut and golden, then toss them into a hot wok with egg or drop them into a clear soup. Sweet, faintly grassy, and always cooked — that is cowslip creeper on the plate. In the garden it's a vigorous perennial vine — give it a fence or trellis and it climbs two to five meters and flowers through the warm months. Follow Longevity Biome for a new Thai plant every day.
Dok Khajon Phat Khai — ดอกขจรผัดไข่ (dok-ka-jon-pad-kai)
Gaeng Liang Dok Khajon — แกงเลียงดอกขจร (gaeng-liang-dok-ka-jon)
Source: Doan et al. (2023). Telosma cordata flower extract effects on acetylcholinesterase and BDNF/NGF expression in nerve cells (in vitro). Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca 51(4):13204. DOI:10.15835/nbha51413204.
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Food and nutrients
Rich in: Vitamin C, Vitamin A, protein, fiber
Research context
The one brain study on cowslip creeper used a concentrated flower extract on nerve cells in a dish; the buds you eat are a fragrant vitamin-C vegetable — Notulae Botanicae, 2023