A selection of dishes that will smell like jasmine flowers

The unique aroma of jasmine has made it a popular ingredient in many recipes. Most often, the petals of the plant are added to drinks. But the essence of jasmine can bring a savory note to ice cream, desserts, pastries and even second courses!

Jasmine Jasmine's fragrance or blackhead? Let’s start with a common misconception. Jasmine is often referred to as tartan, or garden jasmine. Meanwhile, these shrubs are not even close relatives. Real jasmine (Jasminum) is an evergreen plant of the olive family. And familiar to us tartan (Philadelphus) sheds leaves for the winter and belongs to the family Hortensius.



Phere brings them together only the presence of white flowers with a sweet smell. How do you know if you have jasmine in front of you? In the store, use the Latin name. In the garden, first look at the flowers. It has a rounded cup with 4-6 petals and many (20 to 70) stamens. Jasmine has a more oblong corolla, petals are elongated, and stamens are only 2.



The leaves of jasmine are elongated and dense, and in the blackberry they are wider, with a large number of veins and small cloves around the edges. After flowering, the ovary of the first turns into a berry, and the second into a seed box, as in the photo.



It should also be remembered that jasmine is a very heat-loving plant, prefers subtropics. Therefore, if you live in the suburbs, then the shrub with fragrant white flowers under your window, which grandmothers amicably call jasmine, most likely, is nothing more than a strand.

Jasmine in cooking Green tea with jasmine

If you like floral aromas, then you will surely like the fresh and delicate taste of jasmine tea. In the presence of dry inflorescences of jasmine, it is easy to prepare it.

The ingredients

• 1 tsp jasmine inflorescences
• 1 tsp green tea
• 500 ml of hot water

Preparation

1. Let the water boil.
2. Put it in the jasmine teapot and tea.
3. Hold the boiling water so that its temperature drops to 80 degrees. This temperature is considered ideal for brewing green tea.
4. Pour hot water into the brew.
5. Let me brew for 2-3 minutes. If you prefer a tart taste, insist for 3-5 minutes.
6. For a change in the recipe, you can include lemon peel, oregano leaves, dried raspberries.

We add that for the preparation of fragrant jasmine tea may well be suitable and the usual perch. Moreover, the modest brother of the southern shrub has considerable healing properties. Unlike jasmine, blackberry benefits not only flowers, but also twigs and leaves. And tea with it is useful for the prevention of colds, invigorates and relieves fatigue.

Smoothie with jasmine and peach

The ingredients

• 15g jasmine inflorescences
• 70 ml of water
• 200ml kefir
• 100g bananas
• 100g peaches
• 40g honey

Preparation

1. Make jasmine tea, as we advised before.
2. Peel and randomly cut the banana. Take the skin off the peaches and remove the bones.
3. Put fruit in the bowl of the blender, pour kefir and cooled jasmine tea, beat to a homogeneous state.
4. Instead of sugar, add honey, beat again, pour over the glasses and serve chilled.
5. Bon appetit!

Jasmine sorbet

In the summer heat, a chilled dessert with a taste of jasmine is simply impossible to refuse.

The ingredients

• 50g jasmine inflorescences
• 150g sugar
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 50ml rum
• 4 egg whites
• 500 ml of water

Preparation

1. Pour jasmine flowers with water, insist for 3 hours. At the end of the measured time, strain the infusion.
2. Add sugar and cinnamon to it. Put it on the stove, boil it, strain it again.
3. Separate the yolks from the proteins. Beat the squirrels with a wreath in a thick foam.
4. Couple the squirrels with a jasmine infusion and rum.
5. Send the mixture to the freezer to freeze.
6. When it's half frozen, hit it again.
7. Repeat the whipping procedure 2 more times so that there are no pieces of ice in the finished dessert.
8. Serve to the table and enjoy. Bon appetit!

This is only a small part of those recipes in which you can apply fragrant inflorescences of jasmine. Do you use them in your kitchen?