Choose Herbs to Enhance Our Dishes with Unforgettable Aroma and Taste

A good way to enhance your dishes with unforgettable aroma is to use herbs.  Be it whether we like the herbs to be sprinkled on top of dishes, mixed into dressings or cooked together, here are some ways to choose what herb for what occasion.

Dried or Fresh? That is the (first) question.  Herbs like basil, sage, cilantro and peppermint tend to lose their flavor undergoing the drying process, therefore, needed to be bought and used in fresh condition.  Others such as dill, oregano, rosemary and thyme are able to retain their flavor, albeit in higher concentration.  So remember to use half the amount of dried herbs you would normally use for fresh ones.

Some herbs go really well when placed with certain meat or vegetables.  Rosemary, for instance, flavors lamb and beef rather beautifully.  As for fish and seafood, dill should be chosen.  Dill also goes very well with cucumber salad as enhancement to the dressing.

Here’s a quick cucumber salad recipe:

In a bowl, place sliced cucumber and freshly chopped dill.  Add on honey, cider vinegar, ground black pepper and a pinch of salt.  Mix together. Voila! Instant cucumber salad.

Another way to take herbs is as a salad.  Mix fresh ones like peppermint, basil and cilantro into readily-packaged salad to add that extra taste and bite.  When taking herbs as salad, it is best to have fresh uncut leaves, or roughly chopped.

Talking about that extra bite of flavor, we could also throw in as much chopped dill, or any other desired dried herbs as we can take into our bread-baking ingredients.  And what about adding herbs into our favorite cheesecakes? That can be done too.

There are many ways of adding herbs into our dishes, we just need to start slowly and test with them as we go along.