Healthy Diet for June 21 – Herby Ways to Flavor ⋆ Healthy Diet ⋆ Lifestyle

Shake the salt habit! Excite your taste buds with herbs instead. With little effort, you get plenty of sodium-free flavor.

Herb tips: Use 1 tablespoon of fresh herbs for 1 teaspoon dried. Cut fresh herbs finely to maximize their aroma and flavor.

Boost flavor with herbs today.

  • Flavor your water. Add mint, lemongrass, or scented geranium leaves.
  • Perk up olive oil. Simmer oil gently with rosemary, garlic, or chilies for 15 minutes. Refrigerate leftover oil; use within 10 days.
  • Rub on flavor. Press an herb rub on meat, poultry, or fish before cooking. Try this combo: chopped parsley, garlic, pepper, salt, and mustard.
  • Toss with greens. Add chopped fresh herbs to a salad.
  • Add herbs near the end of cooking. Then their flavors won’t cook out.
  • Season rice, pasta, eggs, mashed potatoes, veggies—even pizza. Hold back on salt; use herbs instead.
  • Mix into dough or batter. Try chives, garlic, rosemary, or other herbs.
  • Get under the skin. Stuff fresh herbs—sage, tarragon, savory— between poultry skin and poultry meat, and inside the cavity, then roast.

• “Sweeten” fruit. Add mint, lavender, or rosemary to fruit salads, cobblers, and smoothies.

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