The banana flower, often called banana blossom, is a pendulum that forms below the last bunch of unripe bananas. It has a cone shape and its leaves (bracts) have a purple colour which resembles a heart.

How to eat:

1. Peel off all the purple leaves and stack them in a pile, separating the small, yellow inner blossoms as you peel.
2. Open each small yellow blossom and remove the inner stamen and the translucent white lip at the base. …
3. Thinly slice the purple leaves against the grain, not lengthwise. …
4. Thinly slice the stem.