Usage of vanilla
1, rosemary vinegar
Fresh roses, roots removed, washed and put on a plate. 250g refined oil, white vinegar 100g, tarragon broken leaves 0. 5g, celery powder100g, one diced cucumber, one boiled egg powder and a little black pepper, stir well to make vinegar juice, pour it on the roses and put it in the refrigerator. Pour some vinegar juice and add a few drops of red pepper juice when eating.
2. Aromatic oil
Aromatic oil is made by soaking dried aromatic plants in refined oil, preferably olive oil such as aromatic vinegar. The obtained aromatic oil can be directly used for cooking dishes. Compared with other oils, refined olive oil is a healthy and delicious edible oil with less calories and more water. Soaking vanilla in olive oil is even more delicious. It can be directly used to mix salads and spread on bread, and can also be used for health care, beauty and skin care. Because the aromatic components contained in aromatic plants have oxidation resistance, the oil soaked in aromatic plants can be preserved for a longer time without deterioration.
Plants suitable for soaking aromatic oil are sage, thyme, basil, rosemary, oregano, mugwort, tarragon, lemon grass, mint, fennel, perilla, safflower and so on.
3. Aromatic wine
Aromatic wine can be soaked in high-alcohol liquor and appropriate amount of rock sugar, such as making aromatic vinegar. The obtained aromatic wine can be directly drunk or used as a cocktail, with rich colors and unique flavor.
Plants suitable for aromatic wine are: lemon grass, perilla, chamomile, mint, fennel, lavender, thyme, basil, crocus, tarragon, mugwort and osmanthus fragrans.
Vanilla processing
The comprehensive processing and utilization of European vanilla can not only be used as garden plants and health-care vegetables, but also be used to process health-care fragrant tea, sachets, pillows, extracted essences and other aromatic products. For example, chamomile processed health fragrant tea has the functions of treating headache, removing intestinal gas and abdominal distension, and enhancing human immunity. The sachets and pillows made of thyme, lavender and Schizonepeta have a good effect on insomnia and depression. Most European herbs can extract various natural high-grade flavors, which are widely used in food, textile, building materials, leather, tobacco and other industries, with amazing economic benefits.
The main functions of vanilla
beautify the environment
A rising star of garden plants in China once put forward the slogan of "greening, beautification and fragrance" in garden construction.
Edible health care
Vanilla is a new type of health vegetable, which is rich in nutrition, delicious, healthy to human body, adaptable, fast growing, less pests and diseases, and basically does not use pesticides. It is a real green and healthy vegetable. In recent years, the boxed gift market has become increasingly popular, and a box of several kilograms is fresh.
The vegetable packaging went bad after a few days. If you put them in a box of herbs and vegetables, the fragrance will last for a long time, and when you open the box, the fragrance will overflow. Isn't it the icing on the cake? Lemon basil is a good vanilla vegetable, which has the advantages of no soil selection, fast growth, easy cultivation, high yield and less pests and diseases. It can be used as a vegetable for cold salad, stir-fry and soup, and can also be used as a filling, with excellent taste. Another example is Mayolan and Spanish oregano, which are also excellent varieties of vanilla vegetables with outstanding health care effects.
First of all, fragrant dishes
Aromatic plants have various colors and attractive scents. Applying them to food can not only increase appetite and enrich diet, but also have a certain therapeutic effect. Edible aromatic plants are very common abroad, and there are some traditional eating methods in China, which can be summarized as follows:
As the main component. For example, the tender stems and leaves of arugula, dandelion, tarragon and mugwort. You can directly blanch with boiling water, and then mix with salt, sugar, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate and so on. , arugula, apple mint and so on. It can also be used for food. Gardenia can be used to make tea first, and when the taste of tea turns weak, then take out the flowers and put them in a pot to adjust the sweet and sour taste. It's fragrant and strong, and it's delicious.
As an ingredient, seasoning is added to dishes to increase the color and flavor of dishes. Perilla frutescens, oregano, thyme, sage, rosemary, fennel and dill are often used in western food to add flavor to dishes. Perilla frutescens is often used in Japanese dishes with sashimi, and China traditional cauliflower such as rose shrimp and chrysanthemum hotpot. In Yunnan, lemongrass is usually used for grilled fish, mint leaf and egg soup and fragrant knotweed beef.
Make snacks with aromatic plants. For example, traditional Chinese rose stuffing, moon cakes stuffed with perilla seeds, and glutinous rice balls; Sweet osmanthus sugar lotus root, sweet osmanthus soup; Lotus leaf wrapped chicken, steamed meat; Folium Artemisiae Argyi Qing Tuan is a western-style pastry baked with fennel, rosemary and thyme.
Second, aromatic herbal tea.
Aromatic herbal tea is different from traditional tea in China and medical care tea, because it basically does not use China tea, and all tea material are aromatic plants. It certainly has health care function, but it is sweet and not the usual bitter medicine. Aromatic herbal tea is characterized by fragrance, nutrition, medicine and color. As early as 300 years ago, Europeans had consciously selected some plants with good color, fragrance and certain health care functions to make daily drinks, called Cao Fangcha, and gradually developed herbal tea into a leisure and interesting drink. This trend soon spread all over Europe, and then spread to the United States, Japan, Hongkong, Taiwan Province and even the mainland, where it was very popular. When drinking, it makes people feel as if they are in the beautiful nature, relax physically and mentally, and give people a pleasant feeling, so it is quite popular among urbanites with tense rhythm.
Ice drink: In hot summer, ice drink peppermint tea, chamomile tea and so on. It's also delicious, but it needs to be brewed more strongly. 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 taste of herbal tea after adding ice.
Herbal tea with mild taste can be tasted as afternoon tea, and it is also a good choice if it is combined with its pharmacological effects and enjoyed at an appropriate time. For example, taste refreshing mint tea in the morning; Add lemon verbena tea after meals to promote digestion; Suitable for drinking chamomile tea before going to bed to help sleep.
Everyday busy and nervous urbanites might as well take time to choose a quiet corner to sit down, put on a soft music, make a pot of fragrant tea full of natural flavor, match a plate of light and refreshing snacks, or read a book alone, or talk and laugh with three or five friends, so as to rest their tired hearts.
Third, aromatic bodybuilding.
Aromatic plants have been used for beauty since ancient times. It is said that Cleopatra, the beautiful queen of ancient Egypt, often used aromatic plants to make beauty products to keep her charm. Yang Guifei of the Tang Dynasty in China bathed in fragrant soup soaked in aromatic plants every day to maintain her face and add fragrance to her body. In the Renaissance West, there was a kind of "Queen's Water of Hungary" which was widely circulated among women. It is said that the queen uses it every day, so she always keeps young and beautiful. It is made of rosemary, mint leaves, rose petals, orange blossom water, lemon and alcohol. In addition to beauty, aromatic plants are often used to purify and treat the body and mind, on the one hand, because many medicinal ingredients contained in aromatic plants are at work, on the other hand, because their natural fragrance can reconcile people's emotions and give people a pleasant feeling.
It helps people to establish a positive outlook on life, thus regulating the immune system and having a beneficial magical effect on body and mind.
Aromatherapy, which is popular in modern society, mainly refers to a kind of therapy that uses the essential oil extracted from aromatic plants to maintain health, beautify and reconcile emotions by means of * * *, smelling and bathing. Usually done in a professional beauty salon, the effect is remarkable and the price is higher. In fact, there are various small bottles of plant essential oils on the market. We can do some simple aromatherapy at home by incense, bathing, spraying, etc., and adjust our body and mind at any time. However, the use of essential oil should be cautious: pregnant women, infants and people with allergies should try to avoid it. In addition to using essential oils directly, we can also use the roots and leaves of fresh or dried aromatic plants for aromatherapy, which is not only milder, but also makes people feel closer to nature. In the natural fragrance of plants, we can relax our nerves and reflect on our relationship with nature, so as to achieve physical and mental harmony and health.