Girl Meets Food

Celebrate the summer harvest at Oyamel’s 3rd Annual Squash Blossom Festival from Monday, July 26 to Sunday, August 8, 2010! Oyamel is using over 10,000 of these delicious flowers in a variety of special dishes ranging from $8-$12.

Try ensalada de tomates y flores de dalabaza, a refreshing salad of locally grown purslane, heirloom tomatoes, squash blossoms, pork rinds and chile de pasilla de Oaxaca dressing.

Flores de calabaza frito con salsa yucateca are squash blossoms filled with Oaxaca cheese, roasted poblanos and epazote, served with a spicy sauce of tomatoes and habanero chiles.

Flores de calabaza con queso de cabra are squash blossoms filled with creamy goat cheese, jalapeños and epazote, served with a Veracruz style tomato and caper sauce.

Don’t forget about dessert! Arroz con leche de tres flores is a fragrant vanilla and orange blossom flavored rice pudding served with a crispy tuile, topped with strawberry compote, orange sorbet, and finished with a crystallized squash blossom.

Tapatío, the Mexican nickname for natives of Guadalajara, is the inspiration for El Tapatío. Priced at $11, it’s a refreshing punch of tequila, Viognier wine, orange blossom water, bitters, fresh squeezed lime juice, and star anise.

Oyamel
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401 7th St NW
Washington, DC 20004
202.628.1005

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