Bouquet Garni – its the fancy way to say “I got a bunch of herbs tied together!”
Using a bouquet garni in your slow cooked meals is gold, but if your family is anything like ours, they don’t like digging through their slow cooked meat looking for herbs on the loose.
Here’s how to make your own at home – it’s so easy, you will wonder why you didn’t think of it earlier!
You’ll need to get some fresh herbs – either from your garden, your neighbour’s garden, or the local supermarket.
In the dish that we are preparing here, beef brisket, we used sliced onions in the pot – keep one of the onion layers for the bouquet garni.
Wash your herbs and gather them into a bunch, carefully place the hard end of the herbs inside the onion skin.
Then bend the herbs back over themselves so that they fit inside the onion skin.
Get some cooking twine, and firmly wrap the herbs so that they are encased inside the onion skin.
That’s it! Ready to use.
Tip: when you finish cooking your meat, the bouquet garni can easily be removed from the juices.
