What to do with dried mint?

System

Absolutely don't throw it away! What a waste! Dried mint is an authentic part of many Greek and Turkish dishes, and I have read that it is often sprinkled on food in Turkey and the Middle East as a condiment (although I have never tried that myself). I mostly use it in Turkish or Middle Eastern lamb dishes or lentil/tomato soups, and I would say that moussaka just isn't the same without it.

For a starting point in your recipe search, if you type "dry mint" into the search box at: http://www.turkishcookbook.com/ (a brilliant Turkish food blog), you will find something in the region of 25 recipes using dried mint. And there are a few Middle Eastern, African and Indian recipes using it at: http://www.seasonedpioneers.co.uk/product.aspx?seasid=97

luby-lou

Mix dried mint with butter and put on new potatoes. mmmmm

Or use up other herbs on warm bread - i mix herbs (any nice ones) with butter then get a french stick and slice it not quite all the way through then put knobs of herb butter in each cut. Wrap in foil and put in the oven for a few minutes to warm the bread and melt the butter. Quite often do this instead of garlic bread if my mum and dad are over as they don't like garlic.

hev_2

Thank you so much for your suggestions - really appreciated.

Juliepink26

Also have a huge bucket of dried mint, anyone got any good idears whats the best way to use it all up!? Its standerd mint. thanks

Aril

Could you use it to make tea?
I found a packet of frozen mint in my freezer yesterday from about the time that the square wheel went out of fashion- I thought that I would have a bash at making a pea soup using frozen peas with some veg stock and add in the mint and perhaps some ham to see what happens:D
Perhaps you could also mix some with a bit of vinegar and sugar and make your own mint sauce and then use it either mixed in with some natural yogurt to make a dressing for eg lamb chops or drizzle over roast potatoes.
Aril

Juliepink26

thanks for that, have used a bit for tea and other little bits in the kitchen but there is stilll soo much left, its like a mop and bucket sized container full of the stuff!

Sublime_2

We've got loads of mint growing wild in our garden. I have used mine with tea, and cous-cous. You could also make mint sauce, although I never have, as I can't abide the stuff.

If using with cous-cous, you could use equal amounts of parsley, or coriander.

Alison_Funnell

Add some to peas or potatoes (particularly new pots) whilst cooking. Add some to potato salad, make a minted pasta salad, plain yoghurt mixed with grated cucumber and mint for a raita, use some in bowls as a fresh scenting pot pourri, make sachets and use in a bath, add to a chocolate cake mix for mint choc one?

westcoastscot

my favourite soup is 3 pints of water, 8 oz of split green peas, a large onion, 2 veggie stock cubes and a handful of mint - makes a lot of soup very inexpensively - its lovely and thick if you wizz it with a hand wizzer. The precise measurements make it ideal for passing on the recipe - usually i'm more of a "bit of this, handful of that" kind of cook
WCS

hot.chick

Don't they use mint to make foot scrubs???

Maybe put salt or sugar with oil and some of ur mint to make a scrub???

If it's nice u could give it away as presents, or make it into kits and sell on eBay :-)