2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Any culinary dish can be turned into an appetizing and picturesque perfection when you add spicy-tasting vegetable plants grown in your own garden beds to it
If earlier the assortment of spicy plants in Russian vegetable gardens consisted of two or three varieties, today you simply get lost, making a choice when buying seeds of such plants, it has become so wide and attractive. Let's dwell on three plants that give unique aromas, have relatively unpretentious needs when growing, and have healing abilities.
Basil or Regan
Whatever species epithet is used when it comes to a plant with a pleasant smell, representing the genus Basil (lat. Ocimum) on the planet - "garden", "ordinary", "fragrant", "camphor" … substances that miraculously accumulate in the plant.
Spice lovers could not indifferently pass by such a natural miracle and tamed an annual plant by placing it in garden beds in order to use fragrant leaves and hairy stems in cooking. Since the plant is an annual, it is used fresh, as long as there is such an opportunity, or the stems with leaves are cut off before flowering and dried for future use to flavor salads, all kinds of soups, dressings for garnish, fish and meat dishes, and also add in the manufacture of cheeses and sausages, canned vegetables and pickles. A mixture of powdered Basil and Rosemary is used in place of pepper.
The healing powers of Basil are manifested in the fight against fever, against harmful microbes, when a diuretic is required. To do this, decoctions and water extracts are prepared from the Basil herb. The broth relieves headaches, and the extracts work the digestive system, helping to cope with gastritis, food poisoning and colic. Leaves aromatize water when bathing, rinsing the mouth, which not only gives freshness to the skin and breath, but also gets rid of annoying microbes.
Caring for an annual Basil is a standard set of gardener's work: watering, loosening, weed control.
Marjoram
Marjoram, known to Mankind since ancient times as an ornamental, medicinal and spicy plant, is a perennial representative of the Oregano genus (lat. Origanum), who loves warmth. There are annual species of Majorana that can be grown in temperate climates, resorting to the seedling method in order to plant seedlings in open ground when a steady heat occurs.
The strong aroma of leaves and flower buds of Marjorana, as well as their spicy pungent taste, are very specific, unlike other spicy aromas, although they try to compare them with the smells of thyme, cardamom. Marjoram is used in cooking similarly to Basil.
The healing abilities of the plant are wide. Decoctions of dry herbs relieve headaches, relieve dizziness and runny nose, relieve asthma attacks. Marjoram oil helps relieve pain in case of gout, rheumatism, varicose veins.
Lemon Melissa or Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis, like Marjoram, its relative in the Lamiaceae family, has been listed among people in the list of healing plants since ancient times. Melissa is also actively used by cooks. Moreover, the smell exuded by the plant is boldly compared with the smell of lemon, which is why botanists gave the plant the specific epithet "lemon".
Lemon flavor defines Melissa's culinary uses. This is a fragrant refreshing drink, and all kinds of salads, which Melissa gives not only a smell, but also an attractive, appetizing look, as well as fish and meat hot dishes.
As a healer, Melissa helps to calm headaches, improves the functioning of the digestive organs, and helps to establish a working heart rhythm.
In addition, the smell of dry Melissa leaves is not to the taste of mice and voracious moths. Even molds retreat before Melissa, and therefore, if you pour tomatoes left fresh for long-term storage with dry leaves of a plant, then the terms and quality of storage will be much more effective.
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