Dishes with hyssop — 7 delicious homemade recipes

In folk medicine this plant is considered medicinal, and recipes with hyssop are prescribed to treat many ailments. 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 tall, on which small lance-shaped leaves grow. The plant blooms from July to September. Its flowers have an irregular shape and can be white, pink or dark blue. After flowering, fruits form — small dark-brown nutlets.

In home cooking, hyssop recipes are recommended for use as a spice. If you cook at home, you can use hyssop seeds for this, as well as the stems, leaves and flowers. The seeds of this plant have a rather distinctive 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 aroma.

You can also prepare this spice in advance. To do this, hyssop greens are harvested at the very start of flowering. They can also be cut regularly as they grow back. The collected hyssop greens are then dried in a ventilated room, keeping direct sunlight off the gathered herb. Hyssop seeds are harvested once they ripen and turn dark brown. It is best to store the spice prepared in advance in an airtight package or in special bags.

Hyssop also contains many substances beneficial to the body — essential oil, organic acids and tannins.