Mint: how to use fresh mint at home and in the kitchen (mojito excluded)

How to use mint at home and in the kitchen? If you also have a nice jar of fresh mint on the balcony, discover the recipes and natural remedies to use it

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How to use the mint at home and in the kitchen? If you also have a nice jar of fresh mint on your balcony or windowsill, don't just use it to prepare cocktails or to garnish your dishes.

We had already told you about beneficial properties of mint and how to grow mint in pots. Now let's go to the discovery of some clever and useful uses of mint that will make you appreciate this aromatic plant with a really pleasant scent even more.

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Mint in the kitchen

Mint tea

To prepare the Mint tea you will need 10 fresh mint leaves for 500 ml of water. Bring the water and mint leaves to a boil in a saucepan. Let it simmer for five minutes over low heat, strain the mint tea, let it cool and serve, perhaps adding a little lemon juice. If, on the other hand, you have dried mint available, prepare an infusion using two teaspoons for each 250 ml cup of water. In summer you can also prepare the mint iced tea, adding ice cubes. (Read also: 10 infusions to prepare at no cost)

Mint flavored water

With fresh fruit and some leaves of aromatic herbs, especially fresh mint or lemon balm, you can prepare excellent flavored drinks. Just pour fresh water into a glass jar or carafe with slices of lemon, strawberries, raspberries, mint leaves and other seasonal fruit. (For recipes you can read 10 recipes of fresh fruit flavored waters)

Homemade mint syrup

Preparing homemade mint syrup is very simple, it will be a perfect drink for the summer season, thirst-quenching and perfect for preparing drinks, slushes and desserts. Here the complete recipe.

Summer salads

Mint is probably a slightly underestimated ingredient in the kitchen. But you can rediscover it thanks to summer salads. It is great for dressing a fresh salad made with lettuce, rocket, cherry tomatoes, basil, cucumbers, dried fruit and other ingredients according to your tastes.

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Seasoning for legumes

You want to prepare a cold and summery dish based on vegetable? Here as a condiment and flavoring you can use fresh mint, chopped on the cutting board. The taste of mint goes very well with boiled legumes, such as chickpeas and beans. To dress you will also use extra virgin olive oil and lemon juice. You can combine seasonal vegetables.

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Fruit salads and mint smoothies

If you love mint, here is a good opportunity to enrich yours with fresh leaves, even better if chopped summer fruit salads or your smoothies and centrifuges. The taste of mint goes very well with watermelon, to give life to a truly refreshing and thirst-quenching fruit salad or juice. It is not to be disdained with strawberries and kiwis, but there are those who love mint also in combination with peaches and apricots.

The mint for the house

Keep away flies and mosquitoes

To keep flies and mosquitoes away from the rooms of your home, grow gods jars of mint on the windowsill and on the balcony. You can grow the smallest mint jars, if you have the space available, even directly in the kitchen. The aroma of mint is pleasant for us but not for flies and mosquitoes. Basil and geraniums are other suitable plants.

Pour pourri alla minta

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If during the spring and summer you have the opportunity to collect aromatic herbs and flowers, don't forget the mint. You will leave it to dry in a paper bag or by hanging a few twigs upside down. Then you can combine it with other dried herbs or flowers, but also with dried citrus peel. And to perfume yours potpourri choose the essential oils you prefer.

Mint aromatic cleansing cream

To clean heavily soiled pans and pans it may be useful to prepare a slightly abrasive cleaning cream by mixing 50 g of bicarbonate, 1 teaspoon of ecological dish soap and 1 teaspoon of water. You can flavor this preparation with dried and finely ground mint leaves, until they are almost reduced to powder.

Mint cabinet fragrances

To naturally perfume the cabinets and drawers, let the fresh mint dry. You can use dried mint leaves to make some scented sachets, to be flavored more intensely by adding a few drops of mint essential oil. Create the little bags with linen, cotton or wedding favors veils. If you want you can combine mint with lavender

Read also:

• Mint: properties, benefits and uses
• Garden on the balcony: how to grow mint