I have a bottle of oregano and I don't know what to do with it?

Question

What kind of taste does oregano give?

I don't want to be making pizzas only everytime!

Answer 1

oregano is a greek herb and us greeks use it in just about anything.
sprinkle over salads. use it with chicken , pasta sauces, meat dishes and many more. see below

Today's pizza rely more on oregano than on basil, and use a multitude of further ingredients: Ham, sausage, fish, shellfish, mushrooms, artichokes, onion, garlic, olives, capers, anchovies and more make pizza a sophisticated delicacy, although it had
once been the poor man's sandwich.

Oregano tastes great with tomato, egg, or cheese based foods, and is also a great addition to many lamb, pork, and beef main dishes. Try sauteeing aromatic vegetables in olive oil with garlic and Oregano. You can make a savory sauce with melted butter, lemon juice and a bit of Oregano; drizzle it over grilled fish and poultry. An easy way to accent pasta sauces, salads salad dressings, and ground meat dishes is with a dusting of crushed Oregano leaves. To release its flavor, crush Oregano by hand or with a mortar and pestle before using it in your recipes.


Taste and Aroma
Oregano has a pungent odor and flavor. Mexican Oregano is a bit stronger than Mediterranean Oregano

Answer 2

There are a few different kinds of oregano. Mediterranean and Mexican oregano are two different plants, but because they are used in the same way and have a somewhat similar flavor they are both called oregano. Mediterranean oregano grows wild on the hilly mountainsides of southern Europe and is an essential ingredient in so many of the dishes from the region. For Italian spaghetti sauces to Greek salads to Turkish kebobs, the sweet, strong flavor of Mediterranean oregano is perfect. Mexican oregano is stronger and less sweet, well-suited to the spicy, hot, cumin-flavored dishes of Mexico and Central America- perfect for chili and salsa. Both types of oregano should be added in the beginning of cooking, so the flavor has time to come out and meld with the other flavors of the dish. Add while browning onions or beef for both spaghetti sauce and chili.

It is particularly widely used in Greek and Italian cuisines. It is the leaves that are used in cooking, and the dried herb is often more flavourful than the fresh.

It is used in tomato sauces, fried vegetables and grilled meat. Together with basil, it makes up for the character of Italian dishes; see parsley on Italian variants of bouquet garni.

Oregano combines nicely with pickled olives, capers and lovage leaves. Unlike most Italian herbs, oregano works with hot and spicy food, which is popular in southern Italy.

Oregano is an indispensable ingredient for Greek cuisine. Oregano adds flavour to the Greek salad and is usually used separately or added to the lemon-olive oil sauce that accompanies almost every fish or meat barbecues and some casseroles.

The plant is less popular in other Mediterranean cuisines, but still important in Spanish, French cooking. It has an aromatic, warm and slightly bitter taste. It varies in intensity; good quality is so strong that it almost numbs the tongue.

Mexican Dishes
The very similar, but stronger, taste of Mexican oregano is popular not only in its native country Mexico, but also in the south of the U.S., where it is frequently used to flavour chili con carne (meat stewed with chiles and sometimes beans) or other Mexico-inspired dishes like Pozole. For this purpose, it is mostly combined with several varieties of chillies and paprika, dried garlic or onion and cumin.

Answer 3

You can use oregano in spaghetti sauce, lasagna...and in most Italian, Greek and Mexican dishes. Check out the link from McCormick spice company with all the different recipes that use oregano. It's a natural antioxident so it's good herb to add to your dishes.

Answer 4

Oregano goes great with every recipe which have tomatoes in it.
Taste? You are familiar with pizza taste.

Answer 5

oregano” 80 Recipes try choose and enjoy

Answer 6

Add it to any of the pasta tomato sauces or, you can make your own salad dressing by adding it to a mix of oil and vinegar. It can also be used to flavor pork, chicken and many other dishes.

Answer 7

Good on pizza and in pasta sauce

Answer 8

oregano goes great with tomatos same with basil for good recipies go to food network.

http://web.foodnetwork.com/food/web/searchResults?searchType=Recipe&searchString=oregano&site=food

Answer 9

How about using it with baked chicken or fish? Also, added to pasta sauces.

Answer 10

try it with beans, olive oil, sausages cooked with tomato sauce. It is very tasty