Lavender-flavored Specialties

2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29

Lavender in addition to being an herb, it is also widely used in cooking. Apart from being beautiful, its petals are also extremely tasty, added to a glass of champagne, to a chocolate dessert, cake and pastry, to sorbet and ice cream, as well as to a number of main dishes.

Besides making lemonade with lavender or caramel cream with lavender, here's an idea for 2 more specialty with lavenderto delight your senses.

Pork with lavender and onion

Necessary products: 2-3 pork chops, fresh or dried lavender, flour, sea salt, freshly ground pepper, 2-3 medium garlic cloves, white wine, sugar

Method of preparation: A few tablespoons of the flour are mixed with salt, pepper to taste and a large amount of chopped lavender in a bowl. The mixture is mixed well and the meat is placed in it. Cover and leave to taste for 10-15 minutes. During this time, the onion is cut into slices.

Fry the cutlets on both sides in a pan with a little butter or olive oil until browned. When this happens, the heat is increased to maximum and the pan is deglazed with white wine. Add the onion.

Fry, then sprinkle with a little sugar, more butter and a few drops of wine. Allow to reduce to golden brown. You can also add lavender, salt or pepper to taste. If it needs to be thickened, sprinkle with flour.

The cutlets are served covered with onion sauce.

Chocolate cake with pears and lavender

They say that the biggest specialties are cakes. A cake, combined with lavender, is more than amazing.

Necessary products:

For the chocolate cake: 3 eggs, 6 tbsp. powdered sugar, 8 tbsp. flour, 2 tbsp. cocoa, a pinch of salt

For the hazelnut loaf: 6 eggs, 12 tbsp. powdered sugar, 10 tbsp. flour, 100 g finely ground hazelnuts, a pinch of salt

For the cream: 700 ml of liquid milk cream, 2 sprigs of lavender for the cream, 300 g of white chocolate, 1 vanilla pod or 1 tsp. vanilla essence, 1 ripe pear, cut into small pieces, 1 whole pear, 1 tsp. lemon juice, 2 sprigs of lavender for pears, 1 tsp. sugar, 1 tsp. water

For garnish: 200 g hazelnuts, 50 g natural chocolate, 1 sprig of lavender

Method of preparation: The chocolate cake is prepared by beating the eggs at high speed with a mixer together with the sugar. Add the flour sifted with cocoa and salt successively. Bake the loaf in a round shape with a diameter of 24 cm on baking paper for about 10 minutes at 190 ° C.

The hazelnut batter is prepared by beating the eggs again with the sugar for 3 minutes. The flour is sifted with salt and added together with the ground hazelnuts. Bake the loaf in a round shape on baking paper in the shallow oven tray for about 10 minutes at 190 ° C. The result is cut into strips 3 cm wide.

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The pear is cut into four. Each quarter is cut into thin strips, not reaching the end.

Put the water, sugar, lemon juice and lavender on the stove to boil. After 5 minutes, add the pear, cut into small pieces, and the cut quarters. Let simmer for 3 minutes, then turn off the stove. When cool, carefully drain the syrup.

Put the cream on the stove to boil with 2 stalks lavender. Gradually add the broken chocolate until the vanilla seeds are melted. The mixture is mixed well and allowed to set in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours. When this happens, beat with a mixer and divide into two parts, mixing one half with the small pieces of pear.

The line-up begins. Place the chocolate tray. Spread lightly on top with a brush with the strained pear syrup and cover with 2 tbsp. of cream with added pears. Each of the cut strips of hazelnut bread is lightly syruped. Spread with cream and roll up in a spiral. This should cover the diameter of the chocolate bar. On top and on the side of the cake spread well with cream without pears in it.

Remove lavender cake it is decorated with coarsely chopped hazelnuts, and on top - with pear quarters, melted natural chocolate, lavender and hazelnuts.