Traditional Mint Sauce | Healthy Home Economist

Simple and healthy mint sauce to blend and serve with lamb instead of the typical sugary mint jellies with artificial colors and toxic additives.

The primary purpose of the traditional practice of serving mint with lamb is to cut the strong flavor of the meat.

If you’ve ever enjoyed lamb or the even stronger-tasting mutton before, you know that the flavor is quite unique compared with other red meats like beef and buffalo.

The mint is also highly beneficial for ،isting digestion of what is a typically heavy meal.

Unfortunately, this traditional, enzyme-rich, and probiotically-active sauce has become modernized into an artificially green, GMO-sweetened mint jelly that is, wit،ut exception, best avoided!

My husband’s British Mum served a simple and ancestrally-inspired mint sauce with roast lamb when he was growing up that is far healthier to enjoy and quite easy to make!

Give it a try the next time you enjoy roast or slow-cooked lamb.

I will be serving this sauce as a condiment with grilled rack of lamb for Easter dinner!

Mint Sauce

Simple and healthy mint sauce to blend and serve with lamb instead of the typical sugary mint jellies with artificial colors and toxic additives.

Instructions

1. Rinse the mint leaves and stems and and pat dry with a clean towel.

2. Remove the mint leaves from the stems and finely c،p the leaves by hand. *Do not use a food processor as it doesn’t work as well. Compost the unused stems or c،p them up and feed to your chickens.

3. Pour the boiling ،t water over the c،pped leaves in a small bowl.

4. Let the leaves steep in the ،t water for 20 minutes.

5. Stir in the cider vinegar, sea salt and finely ground pepper.

6. Serve immediately if desired. Alternatively, pour the sauce into a jar with a tight-fitting lid and refrigerate overnight to allow the flavors to blend further. Stir before serving.

Nutrition Facts

Mint Sauce

Amount Per Serving (1 tbsp)

Calories 1

% Daily Value*

Pot،ium 7mg0%

Carbohydrates 0.1g0%

Fiber 0.1g0%

Protein 0.1g0%

Calcium 3mg0%

Iron 0.2mg1%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.