Lavender Recipes for everything from cocktails to desserts and main dishes! Cooking with lavender creates fragrant, beautiful recipes for a special dining (and drinking) experience you’ll love.
Lavender is best known for its fragrant, delicate Provencal appearance in soaps, sachets, essential oil and other body care products.
At least in the U.S., using culinary lavender to enhance a recipe with a Mediterranean sway is a road less traveled.
Lavender use has broadened over the past years with recipes showcasing the aromatic herb in everything from desserts to cocktails with savory dishes in between.
This collection of Lovely Lavender Recipes illustrates the versatility of this delicious herb.
I personally keep culinary lavender in my spice pantry and enjoy incorporating it in everything from salads to a simple favorite Roasted Lavender Potatoes dish that is a hit in my home.
This was the beginning of experimenting with lavender in many recipes and sharing these 15 lovely lavender recipes with you today!
HOW TO COOK WITH LAVENDER
When cooking with dried lavender flowers it is key to ensure using culinary/edible lavender and not lavender prepared for things like potpourri which can be treated with chemicals.
Where to Buy Culinary Lavender
Culinary lavender may be purchased at well stocked grocery stores, herb/spice stores or apothecaries, as well a grown in a pot or home garden for picking anytime.
With a small amount added to many recipes, a ho-hum dish can be elevated to having international flair!
Being particularly compatible with the flavors of honey and lemon, lavender is a perfect summertime herb to brighten seasonal foods.
I wanted to share some of my own favorite recipes, as well as other mouthwatering recipes I found on the internet, to whet your appetite to try some lavender in your own kitchen all year round.
These recipes are made with simple, whole ingredients, bursting with flavor to perk up grilling, salads, dessert, cocktails and more. Naturally gluten-free too!
Lovely Lavender Recipes
Pink Lemonade Lavender Thyme Sorbet is a sweet, delicate sorbet that is unforgettably delicious.
The unique combination of flavors in this lavender sorbet is completely refreshing dessert option like nothing you’ve tried before!
Lemon-Honey glazed Shortbread with Lavender Buds
These prim, luscious cookies are really a prepared cookie hack (shhh…..no one will ever know!).
Prepared shortbread cookies (gluten-free or regular) are doused with a lemon-honey glaze and adorned with a fragrant sprig of fresh lavender for a perfumed bite.
This lavender shortbread will be the talk of any party!
Lavender Roasted Potatoes
Adding a bit of lavender to simple roast potatoes transforms them into a completely new side dish with a sophisticated flavor and no effort.
Meyer Lemon Lavendar Mojitos
Citrusy lavender mojitos are a refreshing unique cocktail that will take the heat out of any summer day.
French Lemonade with Lavender
If you can’t travel to France, bring the culinary spirit home with this beautiful lavender-infused lemonade.
It takes lemonade to a new level.
Chocolate Lavender Fudge with Salted Caramel Top
The addition of lavender buds and sea salt to this caramel topped chocolate fudge can only be described as the stuff sweet dreams are made of.
Lemongrass-Lavender Green Sun Tea
This is not your mother’s 1970’s sun tea. Lemongrass and lavender combine with antioxidant powerhouse green tea for an intoxicating summer sipper you’ll love.
More Lavender Recipes
It doesn’t stop there! Main dishes, salads, desserts, cocktails and condiments will enliven your table with beautiful culinary lavender….
Lemon and Lavender Chicken {Yum Sugar}
Grilled Leg of Lamb with Lavender-Rosemary Rub {Joanne Weir}
Lavender-Scented Summer Fruit Salad {Health.com}
Peach and Feta Salad with Lavender Dressing {Honest Cooking}
Honey Lavender Panna Cotta {The Kitchen}
Honey Lavender Ice Cream {Martha Stewart}
Lavender Crème Brulée {Jamie Oliver}
Peach Lavender Jam {Love and Olive Oil}
Lemon & Lavender Vodka Tonic {Bakers Royale}
Lavender Simple Syrup {About.com}
Make Your Own Herbes de Provence {The Spurce Eats}
Infused Lavender Honey {Tasty}
How to Make Lavender Sugar {The Spruce Eats}
Stacie says
I want to try all of these recipes. They look absolutely delicious. I love lavender.
Tara says
I have used lavender in my dishes before. These recipes look scrumptious. I really want to try the Pink Lemonade Lavender Thyme Sorbet.
Olivia Douglass says
These are awesome! I am not creative when it comes to use of products. I am gonna try these, especially the scrub!
Toni Dash says
Hi Olivia! Your comment gave me a start! There actually is no ‘scrub’ in this list, it’s all edible recipes. Maybe you meant the ‘rub’ for the lamb? Just wanted to be sure you know these recipes are to eat (with culinary lavender) not to put on your body!
Olivia Douglass says
Yes, I meant the “rub” – autocorrect got me on my phone for that one ;). I do think, however, that you could make a nice scrub with this too!
Toni Dash says
Autocorrect is my arch enemy. I can’t believe some of the things ‘I’ have texted to people (insert eye roll). Absolutely lavender is great in a Scrub!
dawn says
lavendar is amazing and they recipes sound delish. also that drink is Wowsers! Thristy quenching.
Jocelyn Cañasa Brown says
Awesome! I love making recipes with Lavender! Thanks so much for all of these recipes!
Cathy M says
My grams used to bake with lavender all the time! This roundup made me think of her–thank you <3
Toni Dash says
I love knowing that Cathy. I feel like there are all sorts of recipes and kitchen practices that skipped a generation! I have not ever had anything edible with lavender before I started cooking with it but feel sure people HAVE been cooking with it before.
Crystal says
I love the smell of lavender, but really had no idea what to do with it in the kitchen. This is lovely inspiration. Never would have thought of potatoes.
Toni Dash says
The potatoes are SO good! That was my starting point for using lavender actually. I was preparing roasted potatoes one night and on a whim threw some in. It’s been a quest ever since.
Kathy says
All of these recipes look so wonderful. I made some kind of drink with lavender before. It really is a great idea to use lavender because it’s so refreshing.
Jeanine says
That sorbet is screaming my name. Not only is the colour amazing but it looks just stunning. I need to try pretty much all of these!
gingermommyrants says
I can not wait to make one of these dishes. I love the smell of Lavender but have never cooked with it. I would love to try the Meyer Lemon Lavendar Mojitos.