Mountain Ebony Potato Salad

Mountain Ebony is the edible flower of the Bauhinia tree. The flowers and un-opened buds are collected from the tree and cooked as a delicious vegetable and made into a salad-like dish or a pickle. It is a popular spring flower and has become an integral part of Nepali cuisine, where it has been consumed for centuries.

My memories of homemade koiralaa ko achaar are when our family cook, Bajai, used to make a delicious potato-bauhinia sa