When made with fresh thyme then sweet honey and thyme sauce will have a lovely flavour.
It’s easy to make and ideal for:
- Topping on ice cream or pancakes
- Or even as a sweet topping for chicken breasts, etc.
Fresh thyme is great for making sauces. The recipe below shows how to use French thyme (the one sold in most shops) to make sweet honey and thyme sauce – but there are lots of other types of thyme you can use to make your own preferred flavour. Such as lemon thyme, orange thyme, etc.
How to make Sweet honey and thyme sauce
Ingredients:
- 4 sprigs Fresh Thyme
- 4 tbsp Honey
- 2 tbsp Lemon juice (1/2 large lemon)
Equipment
- Saucepan
Instructions
- Pick the thyme sprigs
- Squeeze the lemon and extract the juice
- Spoon the honey into saucepan,
- Then add the lemon and the thyme sprigs
- Bring to the boil and simmer for 2 to 5 minutes
- The longer you simmer the stronger the thyme flavour
- Remove the thyme sprigs and let cool.
How to use the sauce
Great on top of ice cream (or ice cream & pancakes) or even meats like chicken or pork.
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Sweet honey thyme sauce
Equipment
- 1 Saucepan
Ingredients
- 4 tbsp Clear honey
- 2 tbsp Lemon Juice (!/2 lemon)
- 3 sprigs Fresh Thyme
Instructions
- Add the honey into the saucepan
- Add the lemon & the thyme sprigs
- Bring to the boil and simmer for 2 to 5 minutes
- Remove the thyme sprigs and let cool
- Great on top of ice cream or even chicken
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Easy Way to grow thyme at home
Hopefully the guide to how to make sweet honey thyme sauce might inspire you to grow your own fresh thyme at home.
When you are cooking fresh herbs tend to make a real difference to the results. Herbs are really easy to grow at home and many of them grow really fast.
To grow your own thyme
It’s not very difficult to grow your own at home – even indoors (in your kitchen, spare bedroom, garage, etc. All you will need are seeds, growing system and some growing lights. There is detailed description of the – indoor herb growing system
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