Essential Oils + Grilling

Spice your grilling season up this year by adding some amazing flavors offered by essential oils to your meats. My all time favorite is adding essential oils to honey and brushing on chicken or fish before grilling. I also like to make yummy dips for meat including lemon + hollandaise sauce or herbed butters for steaks. Get creative and have fun with your cooking this grilling season. Just remember essential oils are 50-70x more potent then herbs so less is always better. You can always add more to the dish. Using a toothpick to put oils on and swirl around in the sauce/marinate is a great idea vs putting drops directly into dish.

Different essential oils pair good with certain meats and I am going to break that down for you.

Chicken:

Basil
Bergamot
Black Pepper
Cardamom
Cilantro
Cinnamon
Clove
Coriander
Dill
Lemon
Lime
Oregano
Pink Pepper
Rosemary
Tangerine
Thyme
Turmeric
Wild Orange

Fish:

Basil
Bergamot
Black Pepper
Cardamom
Cassia
Cinnamon
Dill
Fennel
Lemon
Lemongrass
Lime
Marjoram
Oregano
Pink Pepper
Peppermint
Rosemary
Tangerine
Thyme
Wild Orange

Meat:

Basil
Cardamom
Cilantro
Cinnamon
Clove
Coriander
Dill
Lemon
Lime
Marjoram
Oregano
Pink Pepper
Rosemary

Vegetables:

Anyone else a big fan of using your grill for vegetables too? Some great flavors to add to your vegetables include:

Basil
Black Pepper
Cardamom
Cilantro
Fennel
Ginger
Grapefruit
Lemon
Lemongrass
Lime

Not only are essential oils fun to add to your meats but essential oils are all around amazing to up your cooking + baking game. Beverages might even be my most favorite way to use essential oils.

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