Dishes with hyssop - 7 delicious home cooking recipes

In folk medicine, this plant is considered medicinal, and recipes with hyssop are prescribed for the treatment of many diseases. Hyssop's homeland is the Mediterranean. In Russia, this herb grows in the Caucasus, as well as in the Altai Territory.

Hyssop is a perennial herbaceous plant, it consists of straight four-sided stems up to 70 cm high, on which small lanceolate leaves grow. That plant blooms from July to September. Its flowers have an irregular shape and can be white, pink or dark blue. After flowering, fruits are formed, which are small nuts of dark brown color.

In home cooking, hyssop recipes are recommended to be used as a spice. If we cook at home, then hyssop seeds can be used for this, as well as stems, leaves and flowers. The seeds of this plant have a rather specific smell of turpentine and camphor. Most often, fresh hyssop is added to soups , salads , meat and vegetable dishes. In the production of liqueurs, this spice is used for their fragrance.

You can also prepare this spice for the future. To do this, hyssop greens are harvested at the very beginning of flowering. It can also be cut regularly as it grows back. Then the collected hyssop greens are dried in a ventilated room, preventing direct sunlight from falling on the collected grass. Hyssop seeds are harvested when they ripen and turn dark brown. It is better to store the spice harvested for the future in a hermetically sealed package or in special bags.

Hyssop also contains many substances useful for the body, essential oil, organic acids and tannins.