Culinary Uses for Rosemary

Rosemary and Other Spices

The information that follows is excerpted from a longer post:  The Ultimate Guide to Rosemary.  For additional information about Rosemary such as its cultivation, or its medicinal and culinary uses, please click HERE to access the complete original post. Other individual sections are listed below:

Cultivation

History, Lore and Magic

Medicinal Uses

Description

In cooking is where rosemary may be most comfortable for you to experiment with.  Its flavor is both strong and subtle.  It is pungent, somewhat piny, mint-like, yet sweeter, with a slight ginger finale. 

Rustic Loaf Rosemary Bread

You can freeze fresh rosemary and use it as needed by taking out a sprig and sliding your thumb and forefinger down the stem to take off the amount of leaves that you need.  Just be wary and adjust your recipes as frozen rosemary is much stronger than fresh as its oils have been concentrated during the freezing process.  Dried rosemary is also much more potent than fresh.  As a general rule, use about 1/2 as much frozen or dried rosemary as you would for fresh.

Rosemary and Daisies

Culinary Quick Recipes:

1. 1. When baking bread, add rosemary to the bread dough, using 1 Tablespoon for each loaf.
   2. Create an herb butter by combining 2 teaspoons of rosemary with 1/2 cup of softened unsalted butter.
   3. Enhance the sweetness of fruit salads without sugar by adding rosemary.
   4. For extra aromatics when grilling, add a handful of rosemary to the coals during the last 5 to 10 minutes of cooking.
   5. Substitute rosemary for mint in a mint jelly recipe.  Use it with roast meats and poultry.

Steaks and Rosemary

Additional recipes utilizing rosemary are listed below.  Click on a title to access the recipe!  Happy cooking!

Roast Beef Seasoning

Herb Butter

Herbal Salt-Less Salt

Rosemary Chicken Baste

Herb Salt

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Peace and Love Always,

Rosemary Foccacia Bread

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Photo Credits:

Culinary Uses for Rosemary Header Image 2:  Photo Credit:  Garlic with rosemary and pepper by Es75

Rosemary and Other Spices:  Photo Credit:  Various spices by valya82

Roast Chicken with Rosemary:   Photo credit: jules:stonesoup via Visual Hunt / CC BY

Herb Butter with Bread:   Photo credit: Cascadian Farm via Visual hunt / CC BY-NC

Rosemary Roast Beef and Vegetables:   Photo credit: jeffreyw via Visual Hunt / CC BY

Rosemary Tart:   Photo credit: jules:stonesoup via VisualHunt.com / CC BY

Rustic Loaf Rosemary Bread:   Photo credit: Terry.Tyson via Visual Hunt / CC BY-NC-SA

Rosemary and Daisies:   Photo via Visualhunt

Steaks and Rosemary:  Photo Credit:  grilled beef steaks by Mara Zemgaliete

Rosemary Foccacia Bread:  Photo Credit:  Italian foccacia bread with rosemary and garlic by anna_shepulova

Culinary Uses for Rosemary Header Image 2:  Photo Credit:  Garlic with rosemary and pepper by Es75