The sunnier your growing location, the more oil the plant produces. Culinary Uses Mint lends itself well to a variety of culinary uses. Fruit cocktails are enlivened with mint as are dressings for green salad. Mint gives a special zest in sauces for fish and in sauces and jelly for lamb. For an interesting touch to pea soup, try adding some fresh mint.
Fresh mint goes well with carrots, peas, or chopped cabbage.
In preparing apple sauce, jelly, or vinegar, use fresh mint. In beverages, a generous handful of fresh mint can play a leading role in mint tea or the traditional Southern Mint Julep. Around the world, mint is put to daily culinary use. Mint tea is often associated with exotic Morocco. Tea was introduced there to the local coffee-drinkers only in the middle of the last century by British merchants who sold large quantities of tea in Tangier and Mogador.