Recipes using fresh mint.
#82351 - 06/23/04 11:01 AM
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BarbaraS
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My friend gave me fresh mint today from her garden. Does anyone have recipes using mint. Also can I use fresh mint of make tea, which would be awesome.
Thanks 
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and any tea you make with fresh mint will be wonderful!!! Just don't brew too long, as it can get a little bitter.
You can finely shred the leaves and add to anything with fresh fruit - this works well for fruit salads and shortcakes. There's a fresh mint lime sorbet in EFI too - that is really refreshing in hot weather.
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Heather how long do I brew the tea? Do you know how to dry the leaves. You should see my friend's backyard - mint has taken over part of it. She told me I can take as much as I want.
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There's always the mint julep: simmer fresh mint leaves with a little sugar and water to make a mint syrup. Stir a little syrup and a lot of bourbon into a glass half full of crushed ice. Yum.
Lamburgers: Put fresh ground lamb in a mixing bowl and add salt, pepper, finely chopped onion and apple and celery. Add an egg and some crushed crackers like you're making meatloaf, and a splash of either white wine or V8 juice. Form into balls or patties and fry gently till just browned. Pour in wine or V8 or apple juice or pineapple juice (or some combination thereof) till the liquid's about one inch deep in the skillet. Add mint leaves -- just a couple or maybe a dozen, depending on how much you like mint, and a few golden raisins. Cover and simmer for about 20 minutes, then uncover and simmer till the liquid is reduced by half.
Chocolate mint ice cream: Simmer mint leaves with sugar and water till you have a nice mint syrup, then mix that with chocolate syrup and drizzle it over vanilla or chocolate ice cream.
Minted brownies: Chop mint leaves really fine and add them to a batch of brownies.
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ground skinless chicken/turkey breast, or use something like a soy TVP product. And sub a couple egg whites for the whole egg.
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Try brewing the fresh leaves in boiling water for about 3-5 minutes - kinda crush them with a spoon as they brew to release the volatile oils. Taste after a few minutes - you'll know if it's starting to get bitter.
I'd imagine you could just hang whole branches of the plant upside down to dry - clip with a clothespin to a clothesline or something in a cool dry place (basement, garage, etc.) Once they dry you can just rub off the leaves.
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The tea was wonderful and I brought a sample to my friend's house. She and her husband loved it too.
BTW I made your curry chicken salad for the first time today. It didn't go well with my kids and my husband perfer I not use ginger next time. It was great stuffed in pita bread and my friends loved your recipe too. Of course being Asian they loved the salad.
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My mom, whose background is Lebanese, grows and uses mint like it's going out of style. It has taken over our back yard (this stuff needs not help to grow). Sometimes she hangs it to dry it, but more often she lays the bunches of it in a roasting pan or casserole and just stores it in the oven until it dries out. This way you don't get little bits of mint all over the place, as you can when you hang it. Just REMEMBER to check the oven before you preheat it to cook anything. Burnt mint smells okay, but only the first 30 or so times ...
When it's dry, we smush it up by putting some in our palms and rolling our hands back and forth. When we put it in a jar, dried like that, it's called "nana" in Arabic. We put it on yogurt all the time. Try it on soy yogurt (my favorite brand for plain is Wildwood) with some garlic, salt, and thinly sliced cucumbers. Mmmm nothing better in the summer.
We also use nana on top of any hot lamb dish that includes yogurt, of which there are many. Too bad I can't eat any of them anymore! 
As for the fresh mint ...
Have you ever had a Mojito? It's my absolute most favorite drink ever. It's made with fresh mint, sugar, light rum, and fresh lime juice. It's sooo good. Mmmm.
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I'll dry leaves the way your mom does.
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Just REMEMBER to check the oven before you preheat it to cook anything.
LOL I learned my lesson to check my oven a few years ago. One of my boys hide a toy in the oven and burnt plastic doesn't smell good. 
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As for the fresh mint ...
Have you ever had a Mojito? It's my absolute most favorite drink ever. It's made with fresh mint, sugar, light rum, and fresh lime juice. It's sooo good. Mmmm. Amanda? Do you have the specific amounts of each ingredient for Mojito....? It sounds wonderful as a summer drink!!!
And BTW, can I come live with your MOM????
Kandee
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