Herbs and Spices: Add Fragrance and Flavor to Teas and Milks!
Herbs and spices are must for providing pleasant tastes and aromas to your herbal tea, blends and
herbal tea alchemy
that your sense of smell and taste will enjoy.
Making a tea with these flavorful herbs and blossoms will enhance your mood and uplift your spirit. We also add them straight to ournut milksthat we use to make ourshake recipe.
I will often throw a handle of lavender into my nut milk and it gives it an almost exotic taste that takes you to nice places! Fields of lavender in the South of France for example!
Use these herbs and spices with theChinese herbsandnutritive herbal teasfor a nice rounded combination of flavors. It is important that what you eat or drink (in this case) be enjoyable and satisfying to all the senses.
Add these wonderful floral essences and exotic spices to your tea blends and create a magnificent harmony that is true
herbal tea alchemy
at it's finest.
You basically add them to either:
Herbal Teas
OR
Nut Milks
And strain them through a fine mesh strainer or nut milk bag. Use the fragrant, potentized liquid that results!
Top Flavorful Herbs:
1) Orange Peel - is a fruity citrus accent to all the
Chinese herbs
and
Ayurvedic herbs
that you brew. Throw some in for added flavor. It has been used in this way in Chinese Herbal Medicine for centuries. So save your peels!
2) Mint - of course any kind of mint is wonderful. I love peppermint myself. But you can experiment with all the other mint varieties as well. Like: chocolate mint, pineapple mint, apple mint, spearmint....... Try it with
cacao
in drinks.
3) Fennel Seed - this is one of my all time favorite flavors. It works well with other herbs too, especially the more floral types. Try it with lavender and cardamom...wow!!
4) Star Anise- a star shaped spice great for use in any tea
for it's licorice-like flavor, which is slightly stronger than the anise seed. Native to Asian countries and use extensively in there foods and drinks.
5) Cardamom Pod - coming from the Indian herbs and spices, it is a must in your herbal tea pantry and for use in many
herbal tea recipes
for it's unique sweetness and smell, I love the smell! You can use the pods or the powder.
6) Cinnamon - probably one of the most popular among the herbs and spices, known around the world. It is traditional use in Traditional Chinese Herbology in many formulas for
Chinese herbs.
7) Lemongrass - a great flavor to add to a herbal tea base in your
raw soup recipes,
especially a coconut Thai soup. You can sometimes find it fresh in the produce section or can buy it dried.
8) Lavender - this purple flower is one of my favorites for sure. It gives a pleasant lavender burst to a nut milk based
shake recipe
and it when you make a tea out of it, it turns the water purple!
9) Coriander - great among your herbs and spices, popular in curry's and other Indian foods. It is actually the seed of the cilantro plant but smells slightly different. Has a nice perfumy scent and is a slight
herbal stimulant.
10) Rose Petal - yes, you can use rose petals straight into your milk and herbal blends. Infuse them into an
herbal tea preparation
for a rosy burst of goodness.
11) Lemon Peel - I love to use the rind of lemon to my herbal drinks for a citrus zestiness to a
raw chocolate
shake or even straight into any dessert recipes.
12) Jasmine Flower - a true exotic! A must in your herbal spice cabinet for its incredible taste and aroma that drifts you off to tropical places.
13) Lemon Balm - also called Melissa, grows prolifically where I live. It is wonderfully lemony and has a calming effect on the nerves, but not too much. It is a nice balance with more stimulating herbs.
14) Lemon Verbena - similar to lemongrass but not quite. This hardy leaf makes a delicious tea and is amazing with other floral blossoms like Jasmine.
15) Wintergreen - there's nothing quite like this green leaf from the mint family. A strong yet refreshing taste combines well with any dessert or morning shake.
16) Anise Seed - similar to fennel but slightly different in taste somehow, I can't quite describe it. The seeds are much smaller than fennel so they can also be used straight in your Vitamix blender if you forget to put them in your tea.
Use these herbs and spices in all of your healthy desserts for enhanced flavor sensations.
They can be used to make liquid herbal tea combo's or experiment with using them straight in cacao recipes.
I will often throw a handle of lavender into my nut milk and it gives it an almost exotic taste that takes you to nice places! Fields of lavender in the South of France for example!
1) Orange Peel - is a fruity citrus accent to all the
4) Star Anise- a star shaped spice great for use in any tea
for it's licorice-like flavor, which is slightly stronger than the anise seed. Native to Asian countries and use extensively in there foods and drinks.
10) Rose Petal - yes, you can use rose petals straight into your milk and herbal blends. Infuse them into an
