ROSEMARY LEAVES

Rosemary is the symbolic aromatic herb of the Mediterranean. Always widely used in the kitchen for its unmistakable flavor and aroma, it is perfect for flavoring various stews, meat and fish, pasta, soups, roasts, grilled dishes and obviously bread and focaccia. The best known and perhaps most successful combination is certainly the one with baked potatoes, a typical side dish but never banal and always appreciated by everyone. Use yellow-fleshed potatoes for a perfect consistency that doesn't fall apart, blanch them for 10 minutes in boiling water, peel and cut them into even chunks, arrange them on a baking tray together with a few tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil, a peeled garlic clove and the unmissable Conad Sliced ​​Rosemary Sheets. Place in a preheated oven at 200° for 30 minutes, towards the end of cooking add the salt and enjoy the result! They will be crunchy and golden on the outside and soft on the inside, with an aroma and fragrance that will immediately make your mouth water.

If the classic use is to flavor and aromatize savory dishes, rosemary also lends itself very well as an ingredient for desserts, combined with chocolate, orange or lemon, and is often also used to perfume apple-based cakes. A quick and easy recipe is that of cocoa and rosemary biscuits. To prepare them, combine 250g of 00 flour, 20g of bitter cocoa, 100g of icing sugar, a teaspoon of chopped rosemary leaves and a pinch of salt. Once the dry ingredients are mixed, add 115g of extra virgin olive oil, 2 egg yolks and 25ml of water. Bake in a preheated oven at 170° for just 10 minutes and get ready to delight and amaze your guests!

Conad Sliced ​​Rosemary Leaves are also perfect, together with garlic, to flavor olive oil or vinegar, the use of which in the kitchen makes every dish not only tastier and more fragrant, but also more digestible, rosemary it is in fact rich in beneficial properties, including stomatal, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties.