A bouquet garni is a set of different herbs that are cooked in soups and stews. Here we show you what ingredients you need for a bouquet to garnish and how you can make it yourself.
As the name suggests, the garni bouquet comes from French cuisine. There it is an important ingredient in soups and stews. With a bouquet garnish, you can give vegetarian or vegan vegetable soups and broths a nice aroma, for example, without having to use additional vegetable powder.
The classic and simplest variant of the garni bouquet consists of fresh parsley sprigs, fresh thyme sprigs and laurel. Depending on the recipe, you can also add a branch to the bouquet of herbs lovagebranch rosemary and branch marjoram Add.
Be as careful as possible with the herbs for the bouquet to garnish organic quality. You support more environmentally sustainable agriculture that carefully uses resources and uses chemical synthetics. pesticides gave up. Or you can plant the herbs yourself, more on this here: Growing herbs: These tips make it easy.
Tie a bouquet yourself: This is how it works
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bukedo garni
- Preparation: about 5 minutes
- Crowd: 1 piece
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3
parsley branches
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2
thyme twigs
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1
Laurfolio
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1 piece
cotton thread
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Wash the parsley and thyme thoroughly.
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Place the grass twigs side by side and the laurel leaf on top. Tie everything with a piece of cotton thread.
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Add the bouquet garnish to the respective dish at the beginning of cooking.
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The set of herbs should be boiled in sauces, soups, stews and other dishes for at least an hour. Remove the herbs before further preparation steps (e.g. cleaning).
Bouquet Garni with dried herbs
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You can also make the bouquet garnish yourself with dried herbs:
- This requires a pore leaf about 15 centimeters long and five centimeters wide and two teaspoons of dried parsley and thyme and a bay leaf. You will also need a piece of cotton thread.
- Place the leek flat on a work surface and spread the herbs in the center. Then fold the leaf into a small package with the herbs inside. Tie it with the cotton thread.
- Add the bunch of herbs to the dish you want to taste at the beginning of cooking.
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