LEMON MYRTLE LEAVES
Use as an additive when cooking any of your dishes.
Crush 2-3 leaves & infuse in your teapot
Serve as tea with honey, or keep the liquid and use as stock.
Use the lemon myrtle liquid to make your own “Rainforest Punch”-
Just add a sweetener such as honey, liquid sugar, raw sugar, then shave some Davidson Plum into this cordial mix, serve with mineral water, viola! You have a delicious drink. Keep your cordial mix in the fridge.
Put 4 leaves in your blender and blend them into a pepper look then add to any scone mix and serve with plum jam & clotted cream.
Add to pastry mix & use as that to enhance the flavour.
Use 2-3 leaves as “stuffing” in chicken or fish.
Use to enhance the flavour of any entrée, or main meal.
This is an adventure in the kitchen --- enjoy!
Crush 2-3 leaves & infuse in your teapot
Serve as tea with honey, or keep the liquid and use as stock.
Use the lemon myrtle liquid to make your own “Rainforest Punch”-
Just add a sweetener such as honey, liquid sugar, raw sugar, then shave some Davidson Plum into this cordial mix, serve with mineral water, viola! You have a delicious drink. Keep your cordial mix in the fridge.
Put 4 leaves in your blender and blend them into a pepper look then add to any scone mix and serve with plum jam & clotted cream.
Add to pastry mix & use as that to enhance the flavour.
Use 2-3 leaves as “stuffing” in chicken or fish.
Use to enhance the flavour of any entrée, or main meal.
This is an adventure in the kitchen --- enjoy!
BARBEQUED CHICKEN BREASTS and LEMON MYRTLE
Serves 6
Ingredients
500g chicken breast
2 cloves garlic
1 medium sized red chilli
1 cup yoghurt
1 small root of ginger
4 lemon myrtle leaves
1 lemon
1 small bunch coriander
Method
Place the following ingredients together in a bowl to make marinade
Crush & slice garlic finely
Remove seeds from chilli & slice finely
Grate ginger
Cut coriander finely include stalk & root
Blend lemon myrtle leaves into pepper consistency
Squeeze lemon & add juice
1 cup of yoghurt
Combine all the ingredients & set aside
Remove the skin from the chicken
Place chicken breasts in marinade and leave to infuse for 2 hours in fridge
Heat B.B.Q.
Remove chicken breasts from marinade & place on B.B.Q.
Grill; turn chicken & brush with marinade until cooked
Serve with salad.
Ingredients
500g chicken breast
2 cloves garlic
1 medium sized red chilli
1 cup yoghurt
1 small root of ginger
4 lemon myrtle leaves
1 lemon
1 small bunch coriander
Method
Place the following ingredients together in a bowl to make marinade
Crush & slice garlic finely
Remove seeds from chilli & slice finely
Grate ginger
Cut coriander finely include stalk & root
Blend lemon myrtle leaves into pepper consistency
Squeeze lemon & add juice
1 cup of yoghurt
Combine all the ingredients & set aside
Remove the skin from the chicken
Place chicken breasts in marinade and leave to infuse for 2 hours in fridge
Heat B.B.Q.
Remove chicken breasts from marinade & place on B.B.Q.
Grill; turn chicken & brush with marinade until cooked
Serve with salad.
Lemon Myrtle Properties
Lemon Myrtle is well known for its medicinal properties
Anti-inflammatory
Anti-fungal
Calmative
Lemon Myrtle Oil is derived from the Australian plant “Backhousia citriodora”
The oil is composed almost entirely of the monoterpenoid aldehyde citral.
Citral is a potent anti-microbial & sedative. Can cause an allergic response.
Use as an infusion ie tea (test with small amounts)
Lemon Myrtle can be used as a mouthwash
Localised infections eg., dental caries gum disease & abscesses
Lemon Myrtle Leaves can be infused & made into a tea.
A cup of lemon myrtle tea with a spoonful of honey has a wonderful calmative affect at bedtime
Wonderful help for a good nights sleep.
Helps decrease inflammation (arthritis sufferers take note)
Anti-inflammatory
Anti-fungal
Calmative
Lemon Myrtle Oil is derived from the Australian plant “Backhousia citriodora”
The oil is composed almost entirely of the monoterpenoid aldehyde citral.
Citral is a potent anti-microbial & sedative. Can cause an allergic response.
Use as an infusion ie tea (test with small amounts)
Lemon Myrtle can be used as a mouthwash
Localised infections eg., dental caries gum disease & abscesses
Lemon Myrtle Leaves can be infused & made into a tea.
A cup of lemon myrtle tea with a spoonful of honey has a wonderful calmative affect at bedtime
Wonderful help for a good nights sleep.
Helps decrease inflammation (arthritis sufferers take note)