Knossos Herbs and Spices for a Healthy Life.
The use of herbs in cooking is widely used today in Crete, you to can try these old recipes yourself. See below or visit mybigfatgreekrecipes.eu.
Cooking with Herbs & Spices
MINT: MENTA (Diosmo) (Menta Piterita)
Mint is a delicious tasting herb that is used for a variety of dishes. It is traditionally made into a mint sauce to be used as an accompaniment to roast lamb. Its leaves may also be used fresh and mixed into all sorts of vegetable, fish and meat dishes.
It has roots in Middle Eastern cooking and is often blended into juices, used as an accompaniment to kebabs and flatbreads.
Greek Herb Cooking Tips
Mint is delicious tossed with fresh peas and broad beans and served alongside new potatoes and a knob of butter. It can be sprinkled into fruit salads and rice dishes or adding to a marinade for chicken or fish.
Pizzza, Bolognaise, Chilli, Saganaki, Meatballs, Greek Salad, Tomato Sauce, Greek Style Mushrooms, Broad Beans with Oil, Country style Pork Chops, Meze, Pork Chops in Wine, Roasted lamb, Kokoretsi, Bifteki, Fish, Rabbit Stew, Duck with Peas.
Buy Online Herbs & Spices
Visit our online shop for your own taste of Greece where you can order Knossos Aromatic Dried Herbs and Spices delivered straight to your door.
NOSTIMO
( Tasty)
Supplied by post in sealed cellophane bags ready to refill your existing spice
and herb jars. We have for instance: Oregano,
Marjoram, Sage, Rosemary,
Thyme, Camomile, Basil, Mint
(two types) and also Cretan specialist herbs like Oregano Dictamus which only
grows on Crete..