Rosemary looks like a shrub or shrub with ever green leaves. Shrub height reaches two meters, and shrub one. They are both very branchy. Twigs densely covered with small narrow leaves, slightly twisting at the edges, the top leaves are leathery to the touch, has a gray-green color, and the bottom – is silver-white. The plant belongs to the family Labiatae. Rosemary blooms in spring or summer, small flowers light blue, light purple and in warm climates it blooms and in the second round – in the fall or winter.
Rosemary is Cultivated in their homeland – Western Mediterranean, and in all subtropical regions where there is sufficient moisture, and on the coasts of the Caucasus, the Crimea, however freezes, if the winter temperature falls below ten degrees Celsius. With the growth at the beach is connected by its name, which translates as “sea dew”.
Pleasant fragrance exudes, not all of the rosemary, used in various dishes leaves of the plant most effectively. Use them fresh and dry, then they become a little darker. It is believed that the higher the place where rosemary grows, the more rocks there are, the better a spice it will make. It is even more important to properly collect the leaves: we must choose the young, tender leaves from the top of the shrub and not just to its flowering, and before the appearance of the first buds. The collected leaves to keep a pleasant aroma resembling the scent of camphor and a spicy-bitter taste and dry, you must dry them in the shade. The top is finished leaves should be convex, and the lower part should be stopped. Well dried raw material is extremely fragile.
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Rosemary, which is described in the writings of authors from ancient Egypt, is successfully grown as a cultivated plant among other spice plants before Christmas.
But, despite the successful cultivation of rosemary and Black sea, CIS countries use it as a spice much less than in European countries.
Mostly found rosemary to use in cooking during the cooking process of meat. While pursuing two goals: to fight off the characteristic odor, which has a particular type of meat (e.g., rabbit, lamb), and at the same time to give it a smell game . This is especially true of the meat of domestic ducks, geese, chickens, turkeys, the flavor of which greatly improves it rosemary, the use of which is as follows: fresh or dried rosemary leaves ground with leaves of parsley and softened butter. The resulting paste is placed under the skin of the bird before you roast it or braise.
In soups (vegetable, meat) this spice adds quite a bit, given that her overdose or long-term stay in the dish will give it an unpleasant bitterness. Together with the other spices not used rosemary. Use it, for example, together with the Bay leaves are not welcome, should decide: one or the other. Rosemary makes a unique “the bouquet Garni" - spice blend, without which it is difficult to imagine French soups, be they meat or vegetable. By the way, «the bouquet Garni” is also left in the soup for 5-6 minutes, not longer.
As a seasoning, rosemary is included in sauces, gravies of meat or fat, in pasta dishes, in vegetable dishes (peas, cauliflower), to pizza and even a fruit salad for dessert.
In marinades, too, sometimes put rosemary, use it like the use of tarragon, though, of course, the taste given by rosemary, has its own color.
Attention! It is important not to mix the rosemary with rosemary marsh, who does nothing with any spices is not. It is easy to distinguish in the reddish-brown color of the leaves from the bottom.
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