Easy Cooking Recipes

Efficacious basil leaves to give a sense of fragrant and fresh in cooking. These herbs is one of the favorite herbs for a fresh scent and is very easy to obtain. Although many are sold in traditional markets, it also can grow in our backyard. Most people recognize this as the leaves of sweet basil leaves. There is also a mistaken thought him as a basil leaf because its shape is similar.

How to use basil leaves can be eaten raw or mixed in food. To mix ingredients of food, wash the basil leaves first and enter just before cooking and mix well appointed. Let the basil leaves wither as the steam cooking evaporates. Usually the leaves are used for dishes that use fish ingredients.

In addition to culinary purposes, basil is also beneficial to health. It contains substances essential oils, protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, sulfur, and others. Several kinds of purposes:

• Treating tinea versicolor. Handful of basil leaves washed, mashed smooth. Give a little water whiting. Rub this mixture on the skin is exposed to skin disease (tinea versicolor). Do this 2x a day.


• Treating diarrhea and vomiting. Basil to taste eaten as vegetables.


• Treating thrush, 50 basil leaves washed, chewing up fine for 2-3 minutes. Swallow. Drinking warm water. Do this 3 times a day.


• Eliminate bad breath. Often eat vegetables basil leaves, turmeric leaves.


• Reducing perspiration odor. Basil to taste eaten as dinner vegetables for 1 week.