YOUR BEST RECIPE WITH MINT
Your Best Recipe with Mint
Alternately fresh, sweet, warm, and cool, mint practically screams "summer." The herb plays nice with both sweet and savory, to boot -- what else goes equally well with chocolate and lamb? This week, we want to see your best recipe that uses mint, whether steeped, chiffonaded, jellied, or anything else.
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Mint-Pistachio Pesto
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A simple palette of greens (mint, pistachios, lime) and whites (garlic, olive oil, salt).
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Assembly is half the game with this recipe. First, add cleaned and trimmed mint leaves to your food processor.
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Toss in the pistachios: em-i-lis uses roasted and salted nuts for extra flavor.
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Just a bit of garlic -- one clove's worth -- goes a long way.
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Salt rounds out the first stage of the recipe.
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Would you believe that you're halfway done?
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Buzz together the ingredients. For puritans and the very patient: a mortar and pestle works, too.
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Stop when the ingredients are coarsely ground and about even in size.
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Now get the machine running again, but this time blend in the oil to make a puree.
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Add lime juice to taste until the flavors come together -- start with just a quarter of a lime.
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And that's a wrap!
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em-i-lis suggests serving this "pesto of the gods" with steak, tortillas, and corn -- or grilled peaches!
Contest Slideshow
Orange Ginger Mint Sodas
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It really is that easy: raw sugar, mint, oranges, and ginger.
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First things first: carefully peel the skin of the orange into big strips, avoiding the bitter white pith underneath.
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But you're not done with those oranges: don't let their juice go to waste!
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Sung to the tune of the Hokey Pokey: "You juice your right-hand orange..."
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"You juice your left-hand orange..."
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"And you shake it all about." (Okay, choir class is over.)
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The orange juice joins raw sugar and water in a saucepan, where they'll all simmer until the sugar dissolves.
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Eight one-inch pieces of ginger: easy enough.
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Aromatics go in last: orange peel and ginger lead the way.
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And then plenty of mint bringing up the rear.
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The whole mix simmers together for 5 minutes. After it cools to room temperature, strain into a jar.
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Orange ginger mint syrup, soda water, and lots of crushed ice: this is what summer is made of.
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Mint Cumin 'tini' (a.k.a Boozy Jal jeera)
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Minted Watermelon + Tomato Salad
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Minted Watermelon + Tomato Salad
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Heirloom tomato salad with fresh mozzarella...
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Marinated Tomatoes and Mint Over Pasta
added by inpatskitchen
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Cantaloupe with honey, mint & lime
added by Lucy Mercer
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Minty Crispy Shrimp w/Minty Basil Cilantro...
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Beets with Pistachios and Mint
added by My Pantry Shelf
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Mint Julep Cream Pie
added by ladykave
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"Life-Changing" Summer Salad with Watermelon...
added by d_ribbens
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Minty Peach Cooler
added by BlueKaleRoad
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Hariyali Paneer Tikka - Minty Cottage Cheese...
added by PistachioDoughnut
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