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Gourmet Flavored Olive Oil - How to Make Herbal Infused Oils

I love to cook with flavored olive oils infused with the taste and aroma of herbs and spices. Herb-infused olive oils make you make yourself are also wonderful hostess, holiday or housewarming gifts. You can easily cook up a batch of herb-infused olive oils at home at a fraction of the cost from specialty stores or your local market.

After you've aged your flavored olive oils you can package them in recycled wine bottles with new, clean corks or you can bottle them into flip-top oil bottles that store and serve. Add a special label and you've got a fantastic gift for any occasion.

If you love the results from these recipes, you might also enjoy making your own herb flavored vinegars.

Herb Flavored Olive Oils - Gourmet Delights at a Fraction of Store Prices

If you grow herbs in your garden, you've got a ready fresh herbs to make your own gourmet herbal olive oils you'll enjoy for cooking marinade, salad dressing or to serve straight from the bottle with fresh crusty bread for dipping. Making your own herb flavored olive oil is easy and can save money over the prices charged at fancy food markets or specialty cooking stores.

Herb Infused Olive Oil Recipe

Large glass bottle or wide mouth canning jar, washed and sterilized

1 tsp whole peppercorns
8 -10 sprigs fresh organic herbs

Organic olive oil, enough to fill the bottle or jar.

Wash herbs, combine with peppercorns and pour into sterile bottle or wide mouth canning jar taking care to completely cover the herbs. Seal aging bottle and let stand for one month. Decant herb flavored olive oilinto decorative jars or bottles. Add a hang tag or label with flavor information plus a copy of your favorite recipe for dressing or marinade.

Herbal Olive Oil Flavor Combinations

Almost any herb you use to flavor salad dressings, marinades or fish, meat and poultry can be used to flavor your olive oil.

Here are some examples of olive oil herb combinations you might like to try.

• Dill
• Lemon
• Lemon, dill
• Tarragon
• Tarragon, chive
• Garlic
• Garlic and lemon
• Garlic, onion, basil
• Garlic, basic
• Cilantro, lime
• Rosemary, marjoram
• Garlic, onion, oregano
• Thyme