Beloved for its versatility and delectable taste, honey stands as a kitchen essential. For those seeking to enhance their honey with unique flavors, honey infusions present an exciting opportunity. With just honey, selected infusion ingredients, and a container for storage, you can effortlessly create delightful and flavor-rich honey infusions.
What you'll need-
Honey
A mild honey works best for infusing honey, we like to use raw honey, or our kids honey. This helps to allow your chosen flavours to really come through. -
Flavourings
Add a mix of health-boosting dried herbs, shrooms, spices, fruits, and nutritious nuts to amp up the taste of your honey. Remember to fully dry everything to keep mold away and ensure top-notch wellness in your flavorful infusions. -
Containers/Jars
Any sterilised food grade container will work to store honey. However to keep it simple you could reuse an old jam jar, or even your empty honey jars. just insure you sterilise them properly before using. -
Strainer
You can use a simple kitchen strainer or some muslin cloth or a nut bag to strain your infused honey once you've reached the desired flavour.
Flavour Ideas
Here are so simple ideas for flavourings, and if you can't choose just one, don't worry you can get creative and combine them and see what you come up with. We love combining different spices to add a warming sweetness to curries, stews and even desserts.
Spices
Simple spices like cinnamon, cloves and star anise add an aroma and warmth that go well with the sweetness of honey.
Dried Herbs
Dried herbs such as rosemary, ginger and mint add wonderful flavors to honey.
Fruits and Vegetables
Get creative with dried citrus, whether it's lemons, limes or oranges, they all add their own unique flavour to honey. Or turn up the heat with dried peppers or chilli.
Nuts
You can even try dried nuts or coffee beans to infuse your honey to create complex and unique flavor profiles.
Pumped up about health and wellness, picture this: you've got your honey and a bunch of goodies – what's next? It's all about time, my friend. The longer the infusion, the bolder the taste. For instance, a fiery chili needs less time than a milder one. So, sample your honey every few days until it hits the flavor jackpot you desire.
Then comes the fun part! Strain your infused honey, keep it in a squeaky-clean container, and use it just like regular honey. Or better yet, let your inner chef loose and add it to various meals and treats.
With your creativity leading the way, there's no limit to what you can create. Grab that honey jar, raid your pantry for flavors, and let the magic begin!