Vanilla is a plant that gives off a distinctive flavor, and is often used for flavoring, making spices, or extracting essential oils, many of which also have medicinal value. Here is how you can use vanilla.

The use of vanilla

1, rose mint in vinegar

Fresh roses, remove the root, choose and wash, put in the dish. Refined oil 250 grams, 100 grams of white vinegar, tarragon crushed leaves 0. 5 grams, 100 grams of celery, a cucumber diced, a cooked egg, a little black pepper stirred into a vinaigrette, poured on the roses, put into the refrigerator. When serving, pour some more vinaigrette and add a few drops of red pepper sauce.

2, aromatic oil

Aromatic oils are made from refined oils, preferably olive oil, soaked in dried aromatic plants, such as aromatic vinegar. The resulting aromatic oil can be used directly in cooking. Refined olive oil has fewer calories and more water than other oils, making it a healthy and tasty cooking oil. Olive oil infused with herbs is even more delicious, and can be used directly in salads, spread on bread, and used as a health massage and for skin care. As the aromatic components contained in aromatic plants have antioxidant properties, the oil infused with aromatic plants can be preserved for a longer period of time without deterioration.

Suitable plants for infusing aromatic oils are: sage, thyme, basil, rosemary, oregano, tarragon, tarragon, lemongrass, peppermint, aniseed, perilla, safflower and so on.

3, aromatic wine

Aromatic wine can be used with a high degree of white wine and then add the right amount of rock sugar to soak, such as the production of aromatic vinegar. The resulting aromatic wine can be drunk directly or used to make cocktails, colorful and unique flavor.

Plants suitable for aromatic wines are: lemongrass, sage, chamomile, mint, fennel, lavender, thyme, basil, saffron, tarragon, wormwood, cinnamon.

Vanilla processing

Comprehensive processing and utilization of European vanilla in addition to garden plants, health care vegetables, can also be processed health care tea, capsules, pillows, extracts and other scented products. Such as chamomile processing health tea with the treatment of headaches, remove intestinal gas and bloating, enhance the body's immunity and other functions; thyme, lavender and thorns and other processing of capsules, pillows, such as insomnia, depression and other good therapeutic effects; most of the European vanilla can be extracted from a variety of flavors of the natural high-grade flavors, widely used in food, textiles, building materials, leather and cigarettes, and other industries, and the economic benefits of the amazing.

The main function of vanilla

landscaping

garden plants new show China in the construction of the garden has put forward? Greening, beautification, aroma? The slogan.

Eating health care

The new health care vegetables European herbs are nutritious, good taste, health effects on the human body, and adaptability, fast growth, pests and diseases, basically no pesticides, is a real green health care vegetables. In recent years, the boxed gift vegetables market day by day red, and a box of several kilograms of fresh

Vegetable packaging placed a few days after the smell is not good, such as into a box of herbs and vegetables, long-lasting flavor, open the box that is fragrant, is not the icing on the cake. Lemon basil is a very good herb vegetables, it does not choose the soil, fast-growing, easy to cultivate, higher yields, pests and diseases is very little, as a vegetable to eat can be cold, stir-fry, for soup, but also for the filling, the taste is excellent. Then, such as Maioran, Spanish oregano, etc. is also a very good variety of herbs and vegetables, health care efficacy is outstanding.

Aromatic cuisine

Aromatic plants have both colorful shape and color, but also attractive aroma, they are applied to food, not only can increase appetite, dietary interest, but also has a certain therapeutic effect. The consumption of aromatic plants in foreign countries is very common, China also has some traditional methods of consumption, synthesized roughly the following kinds:

As the main ingredient into the dish. For example, arugula, dandelion, tarragon, mugwort and other young stems and leaves, can directly with boiling water blanch, and then mixed with salt, sugar, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate and other ingredients to eat, arugula, apple mint and so on can also be made into salad raw food. Gardenia can be used to make tea first, such as tea flavor fade, and then the flowers into the pot to sugar and vinegar flavor mixing food, aromatic and strong, very delicious.

As ingredients, seasoning into the dish, in order to add the color and flavor of the dish. Western cuisine, commonly used basil, oregano, thyme, sage, rosemary, fennel, dill, etc. to add flavor to the dishes to fishy, Japanese cuisine commonly used shiso with sashimi, China's traditional flower dishes, such as rose shrimp, chrysanthemum hot pot, etc., Yunnan, often used in the lemongrass grilled fish, with mint leaves to boil the egg broth, with the fragrant polygonum roast beef, and so on.

Use aromatic plants to make snacks. For example, China's traditional rose stuffing, perilla stuffed moon cakes, dumplings; osmanthus sugar lotus root, osmanthus soup point; lotus leaf wrapped chicken, steamed meat; mugwort green dough, add fennel, rosemary, thyme baked western pastries and so on.

Second, aromatic herb tea

Aromatic herb tea is different from the traditional Chinese tea, also different from the medicinal health tea, because it basically does not use the Chinese tea and all the tea into the tea material is aromatic plants, it must have a health function, but is not the usual bitter medicine, but very sweet. Aromatic herb tea is characterized by aroma, nutrition, medicinal properties, color. Europeans as early as 300 years ago has consciously choose some of the color and flavor, but also has a certain health care function of the plant blended into a daily drink, known as the aromatic herb tea, and gradually the herb tea developed into a leisure and fun drinks. This trend soon spread throughout Europe, and then into the United States, Japan, in Hong Kong, Taiwan and even the mainland are extremely popular. Drinking it makes people feel as if they are in a beautiful nature, both physical and mental relaxation, giving a feeling of pleasure, so quite popular with the rhythm of the city people welcome.

Ice drink: hot summer, iced drink peppermint tea, chamomile tea, etc., is also very tasty, just have to bubble thicker. That is, the amount of raw materials remains unchanged, but the amount of water is reduced by 1/3-1/2, so as not to dilute the flavor of herbal tea after adding ice.

The gentle taste of herbal tea can be used as afternoon tea in addition to tasting, if coupled with its pharmacological function, in the appropriate time to enjoy, is also a good choice. For example, in the morning to savor the refreshing peppermint tea; meals may be supplemented with lemon verbena tea to promote digestion; before going to bed is suitable for drinking sleepy chamomile tea.

Daily busy nervous city people, you may want to take the time to pick a quiet corner to sit down, put on a piece of soft music, brewed a pot full of natural flavor of the herbal tea, with a plate of light and refreshing snacks, or read alone, or three or five friends to talk about laughing, so that the tired mind to rest.

Third, aromatic beauty

Aromatic plants used in beauty since ancient times, the legend of ancient Egypt's beautiful Queen Cleopatra often used aromatic plants as beauty products to maintain her charm, China's Tang Dynasty Yang Guifei daily aromatic plants soaked in fragrant soup bath to maintain the skin and add the body's aroma. In the Renaissance in the West, there is a widely circulated among women in the "Queen of Hungary's water", it is said that the Queen daily with it, so often to maintain youth and beauty, it is with rosemary, mint leaves, rose petals, citrus orange flower water, lemon and alcohol and other preparations. In addition to beauty, aromatic plants are often used to purify and heal the body and mind, which is partly because of the many medicinal ingredients contained in aromatic plants, and partly because of their natural fragrance can harmonize people's emotions and give them a sense of pleasure,

Helps people to establish a positive outlook on life, which can regulate the immune system, and have a favorable magical effect on the body and mind.