Welcome to the summary page for FabulousFusionFood's Herb guide to Black Mint along with all the Black Mint containing recipes presented on this site, with 8 recipes in total.

This is a continuation of an entire series of pages that will, I hope, allow my visitors to better navigate this site. As well as displaying recipes by name, country and region of origin I am now planning a whole series of pages where recipes can be located by meal type and main ingredient. This page gives a listing of all the Cornish recipes added to this site.

These recipes, all contain Black Mint as a major herb flavouring.

Black Mint, Tagetes minuta (also known as Muster John Henry, southern marigold, khakibos, stinking roger and wild marigold. It is known by the Quechua names: huacatay in Peru or wakataya in Bolivia.) It is used as a culinary herb in Peru, Ecuador, and parts of Chile and Bolivia. It is commonly sold in Latin grocery stores in a bottled, paste format as black mint paste. This species of marigold may grow to become from 0.6–2 meters tall.

Tagetes minuta has been eaten in various forms since pre-Columbian times. Dried leaves may be used as a seasoning and huacatay paste is used to make the popular Peruvian potato dish called ocopa. An herbal tea can be brewed from the leaves. An extraction of the plant, "Marigold oil", is used in the perfume, tobacco, and soft drinks industry.

The plant has been introduced around the world, and has become naturalized in Europe, Asia, Australasia, North America, and Africa and is used as a culinary herb in Uganda.