List of 11 recipes using Verbena

Apple and blackcurrant tarts

These little tarts taste every bit as good as they look. The sweetcrust pastry cases are filled with a layer of stewed apple and topped with a blackcurrant crémeux. This offers your guests a delightful element of surprise, as the apple flavour is only discovered as they eat it (but only if you've been secretive, of course).

Breton strawberry and verbena tart

Strawberries and verbena go well together. In this recipe they are combined as a verbena crémeux with whole fresh strawberries on a Breton sablé base.

Chocolate-verbena cream

A chocolate cream with delicious aromas of fresh verbena.

Little apple and verbena tarts

A sweetcrust pastry case, filled with a smooth verbena-flavoured diplomat cream, and topped with caramelised apples. You will see how well the caramelised apples and verbena go together.

Peach and verbena feuilleté

In French, a "feuilleté" can be anything, sweet or savoury, wrapped in or with a base of puff pastry, from a sausage roll to a millefeuille. This is an elegant tart-style feuilleté with a caramelized pastry base, topped with a light custard flavoured with verbena. This is based on a confectioner's custard (french pastry cream), lightened with meringue. On this bed of delicious custard, the finishing touch is a double rosette of peeled fresh peach slices.

Pear verbena tarts

Crisp sweetcrust pastry cases, a velvety diplomat cream flavoured with verbena, and slices of poached pears for delicious and dainty pear verbena tarts.

Roasted Apricots with Verbena

Roasted apricots are simply apricots cut in half and then gently baked in the oven with a little butter and sugar, to caramelize them and intensify their flavor. The result is a fruit that’s softer, more fragrant, and slightly candied—without turning into a full-fledged compote—which is often served with yogurt, ice cream, or cottage cheese, for example. Here’s a version with verbena, an herb that pairs very well with apricots.

Roasted pears and verbena mascarpone mousse

This recipe features a double dose of verbena: the pears are roasted with sprigs of verbena—you’ll see, the pear-verbena pairing is a real winner—and the mascarpone cream, in which the cream itself is also infused with verbena.

Salad of vine peaches and apricots with verbena

A simple fruit salad of apricots and vine peaches, with a delicious verbena syrup.

Verbena flan

In this recipe, a delicious variation on the Parisian flan with verbena, you'll see that the delicate taste of verbena goes very well with the slightly creamy sweetness of the flan.

Apple compote with verbena

For this version of stewed apple, we'll add the delicate taste of fresh verbena, which goes very well with apples.