Dill

Dill scented - an annual plant, reaching a height of 1.20 m. It is a well-known herb Anethum graveolens species native to the eastern Mediterranean coast, it is widely cultivated long before our era for the tender leaves and seeds with a pleasant, slightly aniseed flavor.


in Europe, North and South America, dill is cultivated for centuries.The greens and fruits consumed as a spice by the ancient Egyptians.Fruits and seeds are known as spice, mainly in southern European nations.Moreover, our ancestors believed fennel healing tool - Egyptian doctors even 5000 years ago was considered a decoction of dill drug, firming and toning drug and Roman gladiators before the fight certainly flavored food dill oil, not doubting that it will certainly help to win.

traditional use of fennel - in salads, soups, meat main dishes, as well as in pickling cucumbers and tomatoes - is limited to daylight saving time.It improves the taste of food, appearance, stimulates the appetite.

fresh and dried dill seasoned with first and second courses and decorate them.It enriches the diet with vitamins, especially vitamin C, fennel can be consumed in comparison with other spices more should be laid in a hot dish at the time of readiness when the pan is removed from the heat.



Dill collected in the flowering stage, put in pickling cucumbers and cabbage.

Prepare a mixture of dill, fennel which enters as a component in a mixture of spices, is used for European cuisine sdabrivaniya vegetable dishes and cooking sweet and sour pickles.

dry and fresh dill can be increased doses consumed in fire and frying fish, especially Baltic herring (so-called herring in Finnish).For this we need to pour heavily fish fennel, mixed with black pepper, parsley and onion so that it Dill was closed and would lie on a bed of greens.In the winter, along with dried dill can be used as fennel seeds, which are very well preserved.They can be administered in the liver and donuts cakes, soups, marinades, add to soup, boiled and stewed in fish.

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