Our aromatic herbs and their uses


PEPPER HERB Calamintha Nepeta 'peperina'

Parts used: leaves Uses and properties: green pepper flavour. It is used in cooking for risottos, pastas, soups, vegetables, dressings, sauces, stuffing, game, fish, eggs, and especially good for cooking mushrooms. Pot size: Bush Ø 14

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DRAGONCEL {Artemisia Dracuncutoides)

USES & PROPERTIES: LEAVES & FLOWERS Uses and properties: has a slightly spicy taste between aniseed and celery. Used in many recipes such as omelettes, sauces, fish, stuffed meats, roasts, meatballs, stuffing, broths. It has digestive and tonic properties.

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CUMINO DE PRATI ( CarumCarvi )

USED PARTS: LEAVES & SEEDS Uses and properties: leaves and sprouts add flavour to soups, salads and cooked vegetables. The ground seeds lend tone to meat dishes, especially pork and cabbage salads; mixed with flour they...

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CRESCION ( Nasturtium Officinale )

USED PARTS: LEAVES & SEEDS Uses and properties: the chopped leaves on buttered canapés, on fresh cheese, in salads, soups, steaks and grilled meats, in spicy and peppery sauces. The young seeds are used in tartar sauce.

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CORIANDOL ( Coriandrum Sativum )

PARTS USED: THE WHOLE PLANT & SEEDS Uses and properties: the leaves have a strong, pleasant aroma, delicious in salads, vegetables and poultry dishes, stews, sauces. The stem for cooking in soups. The root...

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BORAGE ( BoragoOfficinalis )

PARTS USED: GERMOG LI , FLOWERS, LEAVES Uses and properties: the finely chopped young leaves, with a delicate, cucumber-like taste, set the tone for salads. The leaves blanched in water are put into agnolotti fillings, omelettes, etc.

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ANETO ( Diii- Anethum Graveolens )

USES AND PROPERTIES: LEAVES, SPROUTS, SEEDS Uses and properties: The young leaves and tender sprouts add delicious flavour to salads, stews, vegetable soups and starters. The best smell is that of the immature green infructescences, which give character...

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ANISE (Pimpinella Anius)

USED PARTS: LEAVES & SEEDS Uses and properties: young leaves are used to flavour salads. The seeds with their spicy and aromatic smell are used for bread, cakes, strudel, marinating fish and shellfish, sauces, game liqueurs...

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LEMON THYME ( Thymus Citriodora }

PARTS USED: FLOWERED LEAVES & SUMMIT Uses and properties: bright green leaves, exudes a fresh lemon scent. Use in cooking for meat, poultry, game but especially for cakes, jams and fruit salads.

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THYME ( Thymus Vulgaris)

USED PARTS: LEAVES Uses and properties: used to flavour roasts, stews, stews, fish, gravies, stuffing, game, cheese, mushrooms. Used in the pharmaceutical and perfume industry, but also for distillates and liqueurs. Parts used in phytotherapeutic preparations: aerial parts (harvest May-...

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