Description
Verbena flavored honey Alpes-Maritimes
Verbena-flavored honey, what for?
With this honey, we wanted to obtain a new way of preserving these green and citrus flavors and therefore also to better adapt to certain preparations where verbena can either quickly take over other ingredients or have notes that are too woody.
CULTURE OF VERBENA
This is lemon verbena (aloysia citrodora).
We bought our organic plants from a farmer colleague, and now we make our own cuttings.
Planted in the ground in May and then watered, the verbenas are hand-hoeed and amended with organic fertilizer. We cut them 2 to 3 times in the summer and only use the leaves.
Making verbena-flavored honey
To obtain this delicious blend, we must take the best leaves of our plants, those that always have a beautiful dark green color and that at the slightest friction release their perfumes around us. These are the leaves that we will put in contact with this exceptional acacia honey since it was awarded Silver at the general agricultural competition in Paris and Gold in Brignoles.
USES OF VERBENA FLAVORED HONEY
This aromatic honey will be perfect to give this verbena taste to infusions composed with softer and rounder plants which often see their flavors very attenuated by its presence, notably linden. Here the use of this honey will allow to both marry the notes but also to sweeten very slightly the infusion.
These herbaceous and citrus notes will also be very pleasant in salads or cold starters as well as on a fruit dessert. You can even try a chicken breast macerated with this honey and spices like garlic, pepper, ginger, citrus zest and soy sauce for a poultry with Asian flavors
Technical data and origin:
Verbena (Aloysia Citrodora, Palau. 1784) organic: Le Bar sur Loup, Pays Grassois
Acacia honey: France
Verbena flavored honey Alpes-Maritimes
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