Exploring the incredible health benefits attached to herbs and spices goes way back to the days of the caveman. Today, a larger percentage of our medications and meals can be traced to herbs and spices. Let's look through these seven delicious herb recipes and their health benefits compiled from research.

Lemon Verbena & Balm With Lavender Tea 

Looking for a light soothing and refreshing tea that comes with essential body nutrients as well? Then this is just the perfect lemon tea recipe for you. The lemon verbena in this tea mix helps maintain your body ingestion level after meals from a day. Lemon verbena is also a naturally known fix for digestive disorders like constipation and colic. This recipe offers you a perfect blend of lavender which helps calm your nerves and prevents insomnia and restlessness.

Anchovy & Sage Fritters 

The super-rich in Omega-3 anchovy provides your heart with incredible health benefits. Mostly taken as a snack with a chilled drink, the sage fritters help reduce your blood sugar and promote oral health. Sage fritters can also be used alongside other vegetables when you're out to get a spiced soup going. When deep-fried and sprinkled over your dish, you never have a boring meal.

Fattoush 

This salad is the perfect healthy mix for summer. With its fresh, herbal, cooling vegetables, you get an all-green delight mashup. The ingredients from cucumbers, to chopped tomatoes, red bell peppers, flat-leaf parsley, and spring onions are all vegetables with enormous health benefits to nourish your body. When prepared and served hot, you can literally get the fresh taste of the various ingredients from the salad.

Overnight Couscous Tabbouleh

Everyone loves the idea of a healthy summer lunch. This vegetarian couscous meal is the end-game of perfect steam of all shades of green. Couscous is highly rich in Selenium which means this meal automatically helps boost your immune system. Be ready to get a considerable amount of protein from this meal as it provides you plant-based protein from start to finish. 

Lemon Thyme Drizzle Cake 

Ever felt it was never possible to have a green desert? Well, this recipe just proved you wrong! The lemon thyme cake is the perfect extract of the rich in vitamin-c lemon thyme herbs. If you get down with a cold, and would rather not take something hot, this drizzle cake is the right recipe for you. The lemon thyme is also an incredible source of iron, manganese, copper, and zinc. What could be more interesting than having all of these nutrients in a piece of cake?

Rosemary Shortbread 

To get the right herbs and spices feel of this shortbread, swap the rosemary for lemon thyme. Whichever you decide to go with, expect to get a complete dose of conjugated linoleic acid and butyrate nutrients from this recipe. When baked to crisp, the shortbread is known to be loved among kids as they enjoy their favorite drinks. Many love this recipe due to the powerful antioxidant levels it provides the body with.

Basil Panna Cotta 

Children in India always get a treat from this nutrient-rich herb in milk every night before bed. Basil is generally known to serve you best when immersed in milk and taken naturally. However, this incredible dessert provides your body with all the nourishment it needs. The health benefits of basil include detoxification of the body, it helps manage diabetes at its early stage and of course promotes a healthy gut.

Explore these healthy herb recipes today as you feed your body with these beneficial nutrients and delicious meals!